Stories by willvarfar

Reddit vs Hacker News vs Twitter

Programming language readability: Python vs Haskell

New 'MongoDB is Webscale' video: Node.js is Bad Ass Rock Star Tech

System-level caching; a better way to do it

Cogs bad

Deterministic testing of event loops

No fysnc; predicting the computer of 2027

An Eight in a Million chance (consultants, interns, MS Access)

Tilera preps many-cored Gx chips for March launch

Enquiring minds want to know: how is mongoDB so fast? What's the secret sauce?

Using a fake filesystem as a cache

Massively faster DB with async batching

Under the hood explanation of pathfinding in an RTS

Opinion: moreSQL is real

Self-organizing sites like Reddit, Stack Overflow and Hacker News

Easy points: explaining errors in re-using random numbers

SciGen: hilarious fake computer-generated paper accepted to conference [2005]

Poll: what is your (Lipson-Shiu) personality type?

How to make hash-tables impervious to collision attacks

New attack: your webserver can be DOSsed by a modem

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