The surface area is the information we need in order to compose chunks. The volume is the information we need in order to implement them. http://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/11/04/category-the-essence-of…

The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet. Don’t be misled by the enormous flow of money into bad de-facto standards for unsophisticated buyers using po…

But a variety of different things conspired together, and that next generation actually didn’t show upthe success of commercial personal computing and operating systems has actually led to a considera…

So I think the lack of a real computer science today, and the lack of real software engineering today, is partly due to this pop culture. Alan Kay…

Scheme thus still has a reason to exist, while Common Lisp does not. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LispSchemeDifferences…

A fool and his syntax should soon be parted. http://xach.com/naggum/articles/[email protected]…

Square brackets are a gross violation of the LISP Party Ethic and offending implementers shall be required to submit thorough self-criticism of their motivations and then will be summarily shot. I rea…

Node may be larger than Go today, but in the long term, it’s going to be a flash in the pan. It is critically hobbled by the choice of Javascript as the base language, and events as the core abstracti…

As a rule, any mention of religion on an online forum degenerates into a religious argument. Why? Why does this happen with religion and not with Javascript or baking or other topics people talk about…

Let’s say we want to some integers from a file. Well, we can’t use InputStream directly, but we can use FileInputStream, a class which inherits directly from InputStream. Unfortunately, FileInputStrea…

Most computers today, for all of their potential speed, are largely a mistake, based on the provenly unscalable Von Neumann architecture, controlled with one of the most shortsighted languages of all…