Stories by spiffytech

Christmas Carol and other eigenvectors

Programming Modern Systems Like It Was 1984

The Transformation Priority Premise (2013)

Finding Bieber: On removing duplicates from a set of documents

Your Food Is Always Outside of You

Ad-hoc Polymorphism in F# (how to survive without Type Classes)

Cogs in the System

Robin Williams and Why Funny People Kill Themselves

Running a 24×7 Service in an 8×5 Workweek

Impossible Engineering Problems Often Aren't

28 soldiers die due to .34 second clock offset (1992)

Whither Truecrypt?

Truecrypt.org appears hacked

Feminism in Tech

Volnitsky's faster string search

Inside Windows Product Activation (2001)

The Confidence Gap and the Glass Ceiling

Measles Outbreak Traced to Fully Vaccinated Patient for First Time

Hide those ugly 'utm' strings from your users

Why is cos(x) != cos(y) even though x == y?

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