Stories by jsomers

Should Surgeons Keep Score?

How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any document's keystrokes

The Speak, Memory Machine

The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think (2013)

What it used to be like to look things up

Project Euler taken down by hackers

Using the wrong dictionary

Jeopardy N-gram viewer lets you visualize trends across 30 years of clues

The Snickers Trick

One Weird Trick for a 15,000x Improvement in PostgreSQL Performance

Git-getpull: Quickly find the pull request that merged your commit to master

Pass the Rap Genius Tech Interview, Get $1,000 Cash

Rap Stats: Breaking Down The Words in Rap Lyrics Over Time

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz annotates his own novel on Rap Genius

Better Queuing Metrics With Updated New Relic Add-On

More people should write

The words David Foster Wallace circled in his dictionary, with definitions

An introduction to pair programming: ramping up at Pivotal

How Project Euler taught me how to code, and what that might mean for education

How traders get to play the world's most sophisticated, immersive video game

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