Threading in web forums isn't hard to get right, but it continues to be done right approximately nowhere. In the interests of helping to improve the situation, I will now explain the right way to do things. When returning to a web forum, what should...

Here are my preliminary thoughts on the Go programming language. The most interesting feature for me personally is the built-in threading. Aside from its superb support for multi-core, it's just plain a good set of ways of doing networking. The lack...

This is my 'Dual Rings' puzzle, the result of a bizarre collaboration between myself and Oskar where I came up with a completely abstract puzzle and he came up with an unexpected mechanism for it. It's going on the market produced by Hanayama now, and...

Thanks to google search suggestions, here's the list of life's most pressing existential questions: How can... How can you tell if a guy likes you? How can you tell if a girl is a virgin? How can I make my hair grow faster? How can you tell if a girl...

This post unintentionally demonstrates that functional-style Python is ugly and bad. Let us start at the top. At the beginning, it has some sample code which defines a multiple() function, which could be trivially inlined, resulting in code which...