Stories by gpvos

The hipster effect: Why anti-conformists always end up looking the same

15th-century manuscript reveals links between Gaelic Ireland and Muslim world

What happens when techno-utopians run a country

Everything is broken (2014)

Learn Vimscript the Hard Way

In South Africa, colonialism was written on stone

Troika – a ternary hash function

Nasa's New Horizons: Final flyby commands given to distant probe

How to Forget Your Mother Tongue and Remember Your National Language (2005)

35 years ago, Isaac Asimov was asked by the Star to predict the world of 2019

What did Jesus really look like? (2015)

There will be a new Unicode character for the Japanese Era starting May 1, 2019

Political apps create social networks with only like-minded people

The Rise of “Worse Is Better”

The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (2007)

How did medieval people dance? (2013)

A novel probabilistic forecast system predicting anomalously warm 2018-2022

The story of the “ping” program

Time and thyme are not homophones

Voter suppression keeps Georgia a red state

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