I first got into web design/development in the late 90s, and only as I type this sentence do I realize how long ago that was. And boy, it was horrendous. I mean, being able to make stuff and put it online where other people could see it was pretty slick,…

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LEECHING AND LINKING IN THE HYPERTEXT KINGDOM

This is a rewrite of an article I wrote in January 2012 where I discover the hidden complexity of a simple programming problem. Problem 001 On the popular programming challenge website Project Euler, the first problem seems quite trivial. However, with…

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Time is invisible so it's easy to spend without proper consideration to its value. Seneca offers a warning on how we squander our time only to regret it.

Today is my last day at Merantix Healthcare.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China’s central bank said it will inject 1.2 trillion yuan ($174 billion) worth of liquidity into the markets via reverse repo operations on Monday as its stock markets prepare to reopen amid an outbreak of a new coronavirus.

A pervasive belief in the field of software engineering is that some programmers are much, much better than others (the times-10, or x10, programmer), and that the skills, abilities, and talents of these programmers exert an outsized influence on that...

The comfortable framework for making games in Wren

Scientists and amateur collectors unite to reconstruct vanished ice age landscape inhabited by Neanderthals, other ancient humans

Paul Khuong's personal blog. Some Lisp, some optimisation, mathematical or computer.

Let's talk about nuisance abatement laws. These are laws cities can use to shut down businesses that appear to draw more than their...