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In my experience the biggest entropy generator with browser fingerprinting in system fonts. I ran Panopticlick against both my Firefox browser instance (running Ghostery, uBlock Or…

In what ways do the database architecture change when one discards the assumption that I/O is the bottleneck? Does it obviate the relational model? I always found the relational mo…

Joe Armstrong's passing is tragic. I never him, but he also inspired my own thinking as a software engineer. Even though Erlang is a language from the 1980s, it still feels like so…

For the purposes of learning antenna theory at the level of Balanis's 'Antenna Theory', I think Jackson is severely overkill. It's also written for physicists rather than engineers…

Thank you for your contributions to the Rust ecosystem over the years! I've tinkered with many novel programming languages over the years, and most of those come and go, but Rust i…

I also recommend Dawkins' follow-up book, "The Extended Phenotype." Dawkins' most popular writing may be on atheism and the critique of religion, but I think his greatest contribut…

This is one reason I wonder whether there is room in the world for a better C. Low complexity programming languages with a simple machine mental model along the lines of Go (or per…

I played Magic for about 12 years (1994 - 2006), and played competitively for a good chunk of that time. I am absolutely mind-blown at how expensive the old stuff has become. I rem…

How many software engineers had to study IEEE floating point in (any amount of) detail? Part of my formal education is in computer (hardware) engineering, and we studied hardware n…

John Michael Godier is a futurist and scifi author. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEszlI8-W79IsU8LSAiRbDg He also has a podcast called Event Horizon. https://www.youtube.com/cha…

I did one of my undergrads in mathematics. For me the primary benefit of studying pure mathematics was that it greatly improved my ability to think clearly. Mathematics more than a…

Remember that software engineers have two skill sets: programming/development skills and domain knowledge. Many of the comments here are focusing on the former, but consider the la…

I find this funny since I had the opposite experience: at the time I left undergrad I didn't think I had the chops to do a Ph.d., so I went into industry instead.

I would still do software engineering if I could do it all over. I came into SWE from the EE side. I studied both mathematics and computer (hardware) engineering, with a hefty CS m…