Esmerelda’s Imagination, Rob Pike: “Go is a language for writing Go programs, not Java programs or Haskell programs or any other language’s programs.”
The personal computer is dead, by Jonathan Zittrain. Not a good thing, at all.
New Year’s Resolution: Full Disk Encryption on Every Computer You Own, yes please.
… the epistemological anarchist has no compunction to defend the most trite, or the most outrageous statement. … he may use reason, emotion, ridicule, an ‘attitude of serious concern’ and whatever other means have been invented by humans to get the better of their fellow men. His favourite pastime is to confuse rationalists … There is no view, however ‘absurd’ or ‘immoral’, he refuses to consider or to act upon, and no method is regarded as indispensable.
— Paul K. Feyerabend, Against Method
There is no 16-Clue Sudoku: Solving the Sudoku Minimum Number of Clues Problem, by Gary McGuire, Bastian Tugemann, and Gilles Civario. “We were granted almost four million core hours on JUGENE…”
Handbook of Floating-Point Arithmetic seems very comprehensive and detailed. A very CS-point of view of numerical analysis.
4chan and /b/: An Analysis of Anonymity and Ephemerality in a Large Online Community (PDF), by Michael S. Bernstein, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Drew Harry, Paul André, Katrina Panovich Greg Vargas. I vastly underestimated the number of posts there.
The design and implementation of Ruby M17N, english translation.
Runit for Ruby (And Everything Else), good introduction to the runit supervisor.
gopher.el is an Emacs mode to browse Gopher.
The Shibumi set is not a single game but many games; it is the simplest of game systems. The set includes a 4x4 square board and 16 white, black and red balls.
The Physics Factbook, nice resource. How fast is a base ball again?
Development of Rheolism, a one line Tetris like game.