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The Boehm GC is able to function without any cooperation from the compiler or the runtime environment. In C, the only adjustment one needs to make is to redirect calls to stdlib’s malloc()/free() to equivalent ones supplied by the Boehm GC.

First make it possible. Then make it beautiful. Then make it fast.

Rebellion without a rigorous alternative vision is just a feeble spasm.

Mindless servility to technology for its own sake will make things worse, not better.

For most of our history, children have started their internships when they were seven, not 27.

More dynamic textbooks aren’t the solution to the problem of education—-they’re not even the solution to the problem of textbooks.

The most common in-memory database index strategy is called T-tree. IBM solidDB instead uses an index called trie (or prefix tree), which was originally created for text searching but turns out to be perfect for in-memory indexing.

Augustus Monroe figured he'd drop dead long before he'd need a nursing home. A decade later, his son considers the weighty financial and emotional costs that come with a parent's immortality.

To help his brother, the more worldly and pragmatic Quintus Cicero wrote a no-nonsense guide for winning elections that rings as true today as it did 2,000 years ago.

Instructions for how to submit an opinion piece to the LA Times.