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There is the classic by Vahalia on UNIX implementation (new edition supposedly coming out ) which, is in my always humble opinion the only worthwhile

From Outlaws of the Marsh, translated by Sidney Shapiro The second [bandit] was Jiang Jing, from Tanzhou in Hunan. Originally he had studied for the

A correspondent back from a war somewhere writes: More to the point, we had a large amount of Civvy laptops, and military systems together. There

Spolsky recently writes Alain de Botton, writing in The Architecture of Happiness (Pantheon Books, 2006) has a section on elegance that any software designer will

Here are four quotes. Quotes 1, 3, and 4 all make sense together, if you are sufficiently cynical, but quote #2 is remarkably odd when

wish I was like Mr. Gates, all my money in big crates – Bruce Springstein One of the many peculiar features of the software industry

One of my correspondents has said my comments on formal method (here and here) were too terse. There are a couple of things that annoy

I’ll finish it someday, but here is a variant.

I’m off to give a talk in Bangalore and then visit Chennai and Mumbai. In his delightful book called The Argumentative Indian Amrtya Sen writes

March 26 is Paul Erdös birthday. The book about Erdös by Paul Hoffman is a nice read and thought provoking. Erdös’ concept of the BOOK