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I have also always loved---and used---LaTeX ;)

If you are at all interested in punctuation---and especially the em-dash---I highly recommend Nicholson Baker's essay "Survival of the Fittest" in the NYRB: https://www.nybooks.com…

Here is a copy of what looks to be the original report: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/seuuc6a5 > Here is a link to the version published with the ACM: https://dl.acm.org/doi…

If you'd like to see what Donn's BASIC was like, you can! The Internet Archive has a version that runs in-browser [1]. Although the Folklore article says there were two books descr…

https://archive.is/DOb4c

An interesting, older paper that explores how to bridge the "ninja gap" between naive code and hand-optimized code is Can Traditional Programming Bridge the Ninja Performance Gap f…

Great post! What do you use to draw your state diagrams?

If you're doing new development and not opposed to using C++, I recommend xsimd, which provides a higher-level interface to architecture-specific SIMD instructions: https://github.…

The OverbiteFF extension ( http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/ ) will let you use the gopher protocol as well. I actually installed it just so I could browse the floodgap gopher s…

A bit of Googling got me this: gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/archive/userserve-ucsd-edu/Fonts/%20bitmapped%20fonts/screen-ImageWriter%20Fonts/Boston%20II Hopefully that's what you…

The first "correct" solution will leak memory if the call to TSuperFoo::operator= throws an exception.

Using pkfix before ps2pdf will improve the final output---it replaces bitmap fonts with Type 1 fonts.

The library writer is the "consumer" here. The programmer just uses the library, and the library chooses the proper stream representation. Of course the programmer can also use the…

First author here. The dot product example was compiled with GCC 4.7.2 -O3 -msse4.2 -ffast-math -ftree-vectorize -funroll-loops; see the caption to Figure 5. What compiler options …

Are there any references that detail the new inliner?

OK, I'm being tongue-in-cheek here, but aren't they providing value by making the market more efficient? ;) That is, they're providing a service to the music industry and the artis…

Actually, a tax is termed "progressive" when the tax rate increases as the taxable amount increases. A "regressive" tax is a tax where the tax rate decreases as the taxable amount …

As much as I like Python, Guido has repeatedly demonstrated a pretty fundamental lack of understanding when it comes to functional programming concepts (I'm thinking in particular …