Stories by signa11

Go vs D

How is glibc loaded at runtime?

The Elusive Theory of Everything

A frugal way to check for pending terminal input in a tight loop (C99, UNIX(R))

Mathematics for computer science (Fall 2010, MIT)

Switch Statement in C/C++

Living, Growing Architecture (Literally)

Are multicore-capable garbage collectors hard to write?

Bar Stool Economics

What Was Alan Turing Really Like?

A Trillion Triangles

Nothing succeeds like success

Rob Pike On Go at Emerging Languages Camp 2010 (video)

Sizeof(char) is 1

Python’s Innards: for my wife

Arthur C Clarke predicting the future in 1964

I'm not sure you've really got this whole Object-Oriented thing down quite right

How Software Companies Die

The Easiest Hard Problem

On the Design of Application Protocols