From 5400ceeac31641c91b61c35c9cd2dcbfafe5c4d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Owen Jacobson Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 18:04:10 -0400 Subject: papers please --- wiki/dev/papers.md | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ wiki/people/why-twitter.md | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 62 insertions(+) create mode 100644 wiki/dev/papers.md create mode 100644 wiki/people/why-twitter.md diff --git a/wiki/dev/papers.md b/wiki/dev/papers.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a383a6f --- /dev/null +++ b/wiki/dev/papers.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +# Papers of Note + +On Slack: + +> [Ben W](https://twitter.com/bwarren24): +> +> What are people's favorite CS papers? + +* Perlman, Radia (1985). "An Algorithm for Distributed Computation of a Spanning Tree in an Extended LAN". ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. 15 (4): 44–53. doi:10.1145/318951.319004. + +* The related Algorhyme, also by Perlman. + +* Guy Lewis Steele, Jr.. "Debunking the 'Expensive Procedure Call' Myth, or, Procedure Call Implementations Considered Harmful, or, Lambda: The Ultimate GOTO". MIT AI Lab. AI Lab Memo AIM-443. October 1977. + +* What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic, by David Goldberg, published in the March, 1991 issue of Computing Surveys. Copyright 1991, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. + +* RFC 1925. + +* The above-cited Thomson NFA paper on regular expressions. + +* The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing. + +* HAKMEM is another good one. It's _dense_ but rewarding. + +* Kahan, William (January 1965), "Further remarks on reducing truncation errors", Communications of the ACM, 8 (1): 40, doi:10.1145/363707.363723 diff --git a/wiki/people/why-twitter.md b/wiki/people/why-twitter.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ef20b14 --- /dev/null +++ b/wiki/people/why-twitter.md @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +# Why Twitter? Survey + +I [asked](http://twitter.com/derspiny/status/835317524480811008) + +> Twitter frens! Why do you use Twitter? + +I got some answers: + +> everyone I think is cool is good at it +- [@angusiguess](http://twitter.com/angusiguess/status/835318098156716032) + +> mostly to rant pointlessly about computers. also to annoy @jdiller and to follow @SwiftOnSecurity +> +> also for creative and hilarious seasonal username changes. +- (a locked account) + +> i'm pretty shy and prefer the intimacy of plausible deniability and public speaking to actually leaving my house. +- [@aeleitch](http://twitter.com/aeleitch/status/835322188643336192) + +> it's _the_only_ popular social network with good API access and a commitment to users retaining IP ownership of what they post. +- [@gnomon](http://twitter.com/gnomon/status/835335715043098624) + +> natural selection of interesting URLs +- [@letoams](http://twitter.com/letoams/status/835343447640981508) + +> It's where I learn about tech, politics and other issues; more than any other place. It's also where I interact with said things. +> +> I also have a lot of people I'm close to here, but in a way that doesn't fit into Facebook. +- [@jkakar](http://twitter.com/jkakar/status/835345823219118080) + +> bitching. Side eye. Drunk posts. +> +> oh. Also cats. +- (another locked account) + +> interesting content slot machine +- [@blagh](http://twitter.com/blagh/status/835374149740728320) -- cgit v1.2.3