… Docker is a fancy name for LXC aka “chroots done right” (but with a ton more complexity). http://dabase.com/blog/Understanding_CoreOS/…

I still stand by my statement that the “big one” linux exploit will somehow be tied to systemd. http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2014/09/23/end-of-linux/…

If we start with a small language, then in most cases we can not say much at the start. We must first define more words; then we can speak of the main thing that is on our mind. Guy Steele, “Growing…

Rust has been frantically trying to look more like Go and less like garbage in every release. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8585483…

Mathematics, therefore, is essentially languageless. It is the activity of effecting non-linguistic constructions out of something that is not of a linguistic nature. http://plato.stanford.edu/entrie…

Such a synthesis is offered by the principle of Propositions as Types, which links logic to computation. Philip Wadler, “Propositions as Types”…

GoRustParaSailwithout having the complexity of programming going past what which is manageable by the professional, yet still human, programmer Systems Programming in the Distributed, Multicore World…

From personal experience, I’ve seen a correlation between software companies that “outsource” their devops and software companies that write bad software. This is more pronounced the more “magic” you…

Reading 1,000,000 ints from raw os.Stdin with fmt.Fscan took ~24s. Wrapping os.Stdin in a bufio.Reader got it to ~2.2s. Wrapping os.Stdin in a bufio.Scanner and using strconv.Atoi to parse token str…

“BHQF connects apocalyptic allusions with an investigation of appropriation through extreme repetition—nearly all of the works in the show are titled Isle of the Dead. ” https://artsy.net/post/editor…

The problem with Facebook is that it can be difficult to have a debate or any sort of meaningful interaction because the comment section becomes cluttered with people tagging other people and making n…

You need to internalize this: your ability to get good at coding has nothing to do with how well you fit into the various geek subcultures. This goes double if you know deep down that you’ll never qui…