Stories by nkurz

The Fisherman’s Dilemma: Will closing areas to fishing lead to better catches?

Alibaba’s Fake Orders Problem

Effect of Frequency Governor on Java Benchmarking

This is a perfectly circular phone, and it's wonderfully weird

Causal Friday: When Scientific Restrictions Don’t Have a Counterfactual…

The x86 Memory Model

Floating-point control: Why doesn’t my application give the expected answer? [pdf]

Flow Hive: Honey on Tap Directly from Your Beehive

A Weapon for Readers (2014)

A Weapon for Readers (2014)

Harmful Gotos, Premature Optimizations, and Programming Myths

Evgeny Morozov: Socialize the Data Centres

Look ma no metaprogramming

Fine, I’ll Go Build My Own Disassembler, with BlackJack

Design Principles for Wood Burning Cook Stoves [pdf]

Yalz77: an LZ77 compression algorithm designed for code simplicity and clarity

I went to the ball pool for adults and now I feel much calmer

Reasons why the world has never been a better place

Needless Inefficiencies in R – Head and Tail

Implementing a XOR Doubly Linked-List in C (2014)

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