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Nice introduction to socket programming. You might like to follow up with this: http://wangafu.net/~nickm/libevent-book/01_intro.html Which is the introduction to this: http://wang…

Some quotes: "and I believe that mathematicians who continue to do pure human, pencil-and-paper, computer-less, research, are wasting their time." "The axiomatic method is not even…

I'd agree with the author that only logicians are interested in formal proofs. But what the author describes as the Hilbet-Bourbaki method is simply what math is . Any mathematicia…

This is a textbook on information retrieval co-authored by the head of Yahoo Research and the authors of 'Foundations of Statistical NLP' (another great textbook). Kind of like a m…

MSFT, welcome to the interwebs!!! Even Linus loves it :)

Wonderful :)

This is stupid... Brokers don't trade with their own money, they trade on behalf of clients. They make a living by charging their clients a small commission for making the trade. B…

Talk by Jim Weirich on the foundations of Lisp.

Most users think it is. Ignore your users at your own peril...

Facebook users don't care about Beacon ... not yet anyway.

Steve is a Google employee.

Or use my app: http://apps.facebook.com/webmail/ Which Facebook are clearly trying to squash :-(

Facebook are directly trying to squash my app: http://apps.facebook.com/webmail/ It's exactly what you hoped for and what Facebook haven't yet managed to deliver :-)

This is a hard problem. If your app isn't successful then there's nothing to worry about. But what if your app is super successful? How would you ever be able to secure enough serv…

C and JavaScript. I worked with Perl before PHP but never grew to like it (it's not consistent enough and not exactly easy on the eyes, either). I do understand the tradeoff betwee…

There is such thing as blub languages But PHP is not one of them, it's perfectly suited for the web. I personally find it easier to identify blub programmers than blub languages ..…