The greatest bug I never fixed
Bugs ain't fun. Except when they are. This is the story of the greatest bug I never fixed. In an earlier life I wrote addons for World of Warcraft. Aside from being addicted to the game at the time, it was a mindblowing experience for someone obsessed with plugin architectures and the evolution of p…
Twenty Questions for Donald Knuth | | InformIT
To celebrate the publication of the eBooks of <em><a href="/promotions/impact-of-the-art-of-computer-programming-139881">The Art of Computer Programming, </a></em> (TAOCP), we asked several computer scientists, contemporaries, colleagues, and well-wishers to pose one question each to author Dona…
Hasnain says:
This is absolute gold, everyone should read it.
"I did write a compiler manual in 1958, which by chance was actually used as the textbook for one of my classes in 1959(!)"
For clarification, he was a student in that class, not the professor...
Posted on 2014-05-21T17:55:38+0000
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When Science Becomes News, The Facts Can Go Up In Smoke
It's hard to bring science to the public. The subtleties of research are often lost in translation when they surface in the news. Commentator Alva Noë wonders why.
Encrypting a valid JPG with AES to valid JPG talk recording:...
when AES(☢) = ☠ -- Episode V
Hasnain says:
This is absolutely nuts. Creating a JPG that encrypts to itself (https://i.imgur.com/WRxFKdq.png). Talk available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbHkVZfCNuE
Posted on 2014-05-20T21:37:49+0000
You’re probably using the wrong dictionary « the jsomers.net blog
The way I thought you used a dictionary was that you looked up words you’ve never heard of, or whose sense you’re unsure of. You would never look up an ordinary word — like example, or sport, or magic — because all you’ll learn is what it means, and that you already know.
Hasnain says:
This is absolutely beautiful.
"It’s as if someone decided that dictionaries these days had to sound like they were written by a Xerox machine, not a person, certainly not a person with a poet’s ear, a man capable of high and mighty English, who set out to write the secular American equivalent of the King James Bible and pulled it off."
Posted on 2014-05-20T21:32:48+0000
How a Raccoon Became an Aardvark
On Wikipedia, the wisdom of the crowd often rules—as insensible as the crowd can be.
Hasnain says:
This is interesting. On how you should always fact-check Wikipedia.
Posted on 2014-05-20T21:27:56+0000
Level3 is without peer, now what to do? - I, Cringely
Some major ISPs appear to be attempting to extort money in exchange for peering with Level3
Hasnain says:
"These companies are attempting to extort more millions from us just to provide the service we have already paid for.
I say throw the bums out."
Posted on 2014-05-20T21:20:58+0000
Interpreting when Compiling, or an Alternative Understanding of Lambdas in C++11
I have recently read an article about computations on C++ templates. One of the comments to the article was a
Hasnain says:
A lambda calculus interpreter (complete with macros, variable lookups, tail recursion). Written using C++ templates and processed completely at compile time.
Because why not.
Posted on 2014-05-20T05:13:33+0000