Original: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2010/Jan-25.html

Amazon has announced a software development kit for the Kindle. This is clearly an attempt to shore themselves up against the tidal wave of interest that Apple's forthcoming tablet computer is going to generate.

The Kindle is an excellent piece of hardware with absolutely dynamite battery life. It's definitely an …

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My most recent column for SD Times lists 5 predictions for the next decade of software development.

The C Programming Language: 4.10 as told by H.P. Lovecraft

Holy crud, you're supposed to know this stuff going in to a course on complexity theory?

A Course on Complexity Theory « Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP.

[Update:]{style="color: #ff0000;"} Ah, I read it wrong -- when he said "What they should know," he meant at the end of …

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