Stories by nkurz

Toward a general theory of pathological science

Pathological Science (Langmuir, 1953)

The Next Sereal is Coming

LabScam: Dennis Ritchie and Rob Pike enlist Penn and Teller for a practical joke

In emergency cases a passenger was selected and thrown out of the plane (2004)

System Level Memory Allocation in Linux

Billionaire Startup Founder Is Determined To Kill The Patent Trolls

On the Cleverness of Compilers

AddressSanitizer: a fast memory error detector

Messaging for More Decoupling

Why Communication Infrastructure Should Use Permissive Licenses

The Evils of Unity Builds (2011)

Data Compression with the Burrows-Wheeler Transform (1996)

The Perils of Future-Coding

We don’t need a string type

Open Multi-Methods for C++11, Part 1

Darts, Dice, and Coins: Sampling from a Discrete Distribution (2011)

PackedArray: Packing Unsigned Integers Tightly

Speed typing on the move, with one hand

The reality of open access

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