Stories by nkurz

Is it safe to „let it crash”?

A good Part Of Speech tagger in about 200 lines of Python

Research: A standard for policy-relevant science

A Tiny Computer (Chuck Thacker, 2007)

Snowden Disclosures Finally Hit 12 on a Scale of 1 to 10

Theory Versus Practice: The Great Divide in Programming Languages

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

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