Submissions by johndcook

Why is C++ So Fast?

The Ampersand

Bad Statistics Is Now A Crime

Immaturity of Maturity Models

A Big Little Idea Called Legibility

Advice to a New Programmer

Shady Characters » The Interrobang, part 1

Michael Feathers: Brutal Refactoring

If You're Not Gonna Use It, Why Are You Building It?

What happens to doctors who think outside the box?)

Going bananas over radiation | Watts Up With That?

Deaths per unit of energy for various sources

A Workflow for Digital Research Using Off-the-Shelf Tools

Finding the Chorus of a Song Using Auto-correlation

Antifeatures: deliberate, expensive product features that no customer wants

Why problem employees don't get fired

Applied Chemistry | Futility Closet

Addressing minimalism’s misconceptions

How the term Scientist came to be

Against Background Music

Nuit Blanche Unplugged: blog recommendations