Stories by tangent-man

Some thoughts about writing, by Thomas Sowell

The Legal Basics of Software Licensing (or, My App is Done, Now What?)

China’s Black Market City

Why Did it Have to be ... Guns?

My experience with Typed Racket

Radical Patent Reform Is Not on the Way

The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

Duff's device

Static Vs. Dynamic Typing

Papert's Ideas: Mainly from Mindstorms (1991)

"Simple but Powerful" .. This Android app is a perfect example

Creating Languages in Racket (2011)

"I Was a Slumlord…" [1972]

Skyscrapers and business cycles

What Does Haskell Have to Do with C++?

In defence of the euro: an Austrian perspective

Emacs as the Ultimate LaTeX Editor

The Idiot's Guide to Special Variables and Lexical Closures

The Cabal: Valve’s Design Process For Creating Half-Life

How the Welfare State Corrupted Sweden

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