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Freemail

Conway's Truth

Which Simplex Method Do You Like?

What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic

A little anti-anti-hype

The Waddington Effect

Measuring cmov vs. branch-mov performance

Checking up on realloc efficiency

On Alcohol and Tech Culture

Branch-free FizzBuzz in Assembly

Where Do I Stand on Digital Advertising?

Exceptions: cleaner, more elegant, and harder to recognize (2005)

Programming on Post Machine

Runtime-Compiled C++

Any Colour Will Do

Thin Servers with Smart Pipes: Designing SoC Accelerators for Memcached (2013)

Exact String Matching Algorithms (1997)

Interactive Programming in C

Confusing reliability with validity (2009)

Debugging walkthrough: Access violation on nonsense instruction