Stories by henning

Dr. Seuss discusses parser monads

A new functional language: C#

Olin Shivers: Anatomy of a Loop (first few minutes have amusing anecdotes)

Observation: Lucene rocks

As eBay is destroyed by scammers, its annoying Republican CEO goes to work for John McCain

The story of Jan Schon, the Bell Labs physicist who turned out to be a total fraud

Microsoft: maybe this dynamic typing thing really is kind of handy, after all

France gives US$92 M in funding to create design-by-committee Google competitor

Ask: what the hell is service-oriented architecture?

Jason "I have a magic crystal ball" Fried: Apple will dominate mobile for 20 years

Swiss graphic design: a history in photos (or, where trendy web designers get ideas to steal from)

Software masterpieces: Emacs, TeX, Zork, Scheme, Microsoft mouse driver

Estimating the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow

Colliding galaxies (JPG)

PHP isn't going anywhere: LAMP increasing to 3e5 DLs/month

Ask: why are there are no file sharing startups?

Q: How is software created at Microsoft? A: Very slowly (from the horse's mouth)

"I'd just use an n-by-k array of closures to represent this."

Neat Javascript hack at reddit (with explanation of how they did it)

Italian businesses refusing to pay protection money to mafia, organizing online

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