Amdahl's law - Wikipedia
Formula in computer architecture| en.wikipedia.org
A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering| prog21.dadgum.com
You don't have to be at a party to see this phenomenon in action, but there's a curious thing I regularly see at parties in social circles where people value intelligence and cleverness without similarly valuing on-the-ground knowledge or intellectual rigor. People often discuss the standard trendy topics (some recent ones I've observed at multiple parties are how to build a competitor to Google search and how to solve the problem of high transit construction costs) and explain why people wor...| danluu.com
In 1999, Butler Lampson gave a talk about the past and future of “computer systems research”. Here are his opinions from 1999 on "what worked".| danluu.com
ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore - BurntSushi/ripgrep| GitHub
