Richard Hamming: how one frustrated mathematician made data repair itself 3 days agoWhen Bits Flip and Everything Breaks: Richard Hamming's Self-Correcting Code 0ThreadHN
Maurice Wilkes: changing hardware problems into software problems 6 days agoMaurice Wilkes won the Turing Award in 1967. The citation focused on EDSAC, the first stored-program computer he built in 1949. And he invented Microprogamming, that changed hardware problems into software problems 0ThreadHN
The First Compiler: How Alan Jay Perlis Made Programming Human 7 days agoStarting a series on Turing Award winners and other CS papers I find interesting. Week 01 is Alan Jay Perlis. 0ThreadHN
Ask HN: What's the one thing that let you grow the most as a developer? 9 years agoBut at the same time, wouldn't issues on Friday evenings have least impact on customers? Thinking around B2B enterprise companies. 0ThreadHN