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Yesterday, I wrote about Liran B. H’s Practical AWK Guide. He has a similar guide for sed called Understanding sed – Practical Guide. Like the Practical AWK post, it illustrates some of sed’s power by showing a few sed one-liners. … Continue reading →

Over at the Developers Area, Liran B.H has a nice practical guide to understanding AWK. There’s a whole book dedicated to AWK so obviously a single blog post isn’t going to cover everything but it does speak to one of … Continue reading →

I’ve written a few times about Vivek Haldar’s Read A Paper videos. They’re vlogs that “read” a seminal paper in Computer Science. They’re really great. If I’ve already read the paper, that particular vlog serves to remind me of the … Continue reading →

Vivek Haldar has been blogging up a storm with his video readings of seminal CS papers. I’ve written about a few of them but there’s lots more. See his blog for an up-to-date list. A recent post was about the … Continue reading →

Even though I’m an Uber user, I’ve never thought very much about their IT infrastructure other than to form an (hilariously) simplified mental model of what it probably looks like. It turns out to be a pretty sophisticated operation that … Continue reading →

Microsoft is closing its ebook store. Who cares? The people who have bought books from them care because they will no longer be able to read their books. Microsoft, to its credit is offering to refund the purchase price but … Continue reading →

Over at Gizmodo, Patrick Howell O’Neill belabors—what seems to me to be—the obvious. He posits that RSS is a much better way to keep up on what’s going on than Twitter. Wen I read that, my immediate reaction was, “Well, … Continue reading →