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Amazon

• My Big Company Code Interview 26 Mar 2014 Amazon C++

• Cashing in On Electronic Books 11 Feb 2008 Amazon ebooks

• Amazon Silently Drops A9 Rewards 07 Oct 2006 Amazon

• Thanks Amazon, But No Thanks 24 Sep 2006 Amazon snark

Apple

• DNS Service Discovery On Windows 25 Oct 2011 Apple network programming Windows C++

• DNS Service Discovery 30 Sep 2011 Apple scripting network programming

• How Evil Is Apple? 31 Mar 2008 Apple

C

• GCC Tries to Help - With Mixed Results 15 Aug 2011 C++ C Linux

• Stranger In a Strange Land: A C++ Programmer Learns to Love PHP 26 Jun 2011 scripting C C++

• Sapir-Whorf to Dijkstra to Torvalds - Language Bigotry In Our Time 14 Jun 2011 C++ C Linux

• A Floating Point Problem 01 Apr 1996 C++ C debugging

• File Verification Using CRC 01 May 1992 algorithms C

• What to Do When You're Past COM2 01 Apr 1991 hardware MS-DOS RS-232 C

• Arithmetic Coding + Statistical Modeling = Data Compression 01 Feb 1991 C data compression

• Servicing COM Port Interrupts 01 May 1990 C RS-232 MS-DOS hardware

• Managing the Heap 01 Feb 1990 C debugging

• LZW Data Compression 01 Oct 1989 C data compression

C#

• Headline Writing Gone Bad 01 Oct 2010 snark C#

• Microsoft's Delta Compression API 06 Jun 2006 Microsoft data compression C#

C++

• Data Compression With Arithmetic Coding 19 Oct 2014 data compression algorithms C++

• Highlights of ISO C++14 11 Sep 2014 C++ standards

• C++ Generic Programming Meest OOP - std::is_base_of 02 Jul 2014 C++ data compression

• Debugging Windows Services Startup Problems 20 Apr 2014 Windows C++ debugging

• My Big Company Code Interview 26 Mar 2014 Amazon C++

• One Definition to Rule Them All 03 Mar 2014 C++ debugging

• C++11: unique_ptr 24 Jun 2012 C++

• C++11 - Threading Made Easy 23 May 2012 C++

• C++11: Range-based for and auto 07 Apr 2012 C++

• Visual Studio 11 and Modern C++ 13 Mar 2012 C++ Microsoft

• C++ - Where's the Hate? 27 Feb 2012 C++

• Streambuf Iterators Are a Big Help 05 Feb 2012 C++

• Streams or Iterators? 24 Dec 2011 C++

• Automating PuTTY 10 Dec 2011 Windows security C++

• VC++ 10 Hash Table Performance Problems 28 Nov 2011 Microsoft C++

• LZW Data Compression Revisited 08 Nov 2011 C++ data compression

• DNS Service Discovery On Windows 25 Oct 2011 Apple network programming Windows C++

• Hash Functions for C++ Unordered Containers 03 Sep 2011 C++ algorithms

• GCC Tries to Help - With Mixed Results 15 Aug 2011 C++ C Linux

• Stranger In a Strange Land: A C++ Programmer Learns to Love PHP 26 Jun 2011 scripting C C++

• Sapir-Whorf to Dijkstra to Torvalds - Language Bigotry In Our Time 14 Jun 2011 C++ C Linux

• Cruelty Redefined: Undergraduates vs. C++ on Linux 25 Apr 2011 C++

• Euler Problem 328 10 Apr 2011 algorithms C++

• A Big Problem That Doesn't Need a Bignum 14 Feb 2011 mathematics C++

• Yet Another Word Puzzle 13 Nov 2007 wordplay C++ algorithms

• No Exceptions - With One Exception 13 Nov 2007 C++

• Building the Convex Hull 22 Aug 2007 algorithms C++

• C++ Hash Table Memoization: Simplifying Dynamic Programming 01 Aug 2007 C++ algorithms

• The Byzantine Generals Problem 23 Jul 2007 C++ algorithms

• Puzzling 01 Apr 2007 wordplay algorithms C++

• Louis, Louis - The Preternatural Jukebox 01 Oct 2002 music hardware C++

• Rendering Transparent GIFs - Revisited 01 Jul 2002 graphics JPEG Windows C++

• Intel's JPEG Library 01 Jul 2002 JPEG data compression graphics C++

• CubeShow 01 Jul 2002 graphics Windows C++

• C++ Algorithms: next_permutation() 01 Mar 2002 C++ algorithms

• XML Schema Validation in the Microsoft Universe 01 Jan 2002 XML Microsoft C++

• A C++ Debug Stream for Win32 01 Sep 2001 Windows C++ debugging

• Transparent ATL Controls 01 Mar 1998 Windows graphics C++

• zlib - Looking the Gift Code in the Mouth 01 Jan 1997 zip C++ Delphi data compression

• Data Compression with the Burrows-Wheeler Transform 01 Sep 1996 data compression C++

• Fast String Searching With Suffix Trees 01 Aug 1996 C++ algorithms

• A Floating Point Problem 01 Apr 1996 C++ C debugging

• Priority Queues and the STL 01 Jan 1996 C++ algorithms data compression

Cisco

• Another One Bites the Dust 21 May 2008 Cisco

• The Father of VoIP Moves On 23 Aug 2007 Cisco

Delphi

• zlib - Looking the Gift Code in the Mouth 01 Jan 1997 zip C++ Delphi data compression

Google

• Google Is a Scary Lifeline 16 Dec 2010 Google

• Brute Force vs. AI 26 Aug 2010 algorithms snark Google

• Google to release 5-gram database 06 Aug 2006 wordplay data compression Google

JPEG

• Forgent's JPEG Litigation Run is Over 02 Nov 2006 intellectual property data compression JPEG

• Free ITU Documents? 10 Aug 2006 standards JPEG

• Forgent's Position Looking Bad 04 Jul 2006 intellectual property JPEG

• JPEG Not Dead Yet? 07 Jun 2006 intellectual property data compression JPEG

• Rendering Transparent GIFs - Revisited 01 Jul 2002 graphics JPEG Windows C++

• Intel's JPEG Library 01 Jul 2002 JPEG data compression graphics C++

Java

• 20 Heads In a Row - What Are the Odds? 17 Jan 2011 Java mathematics

• Compression Tutorials for Java Programmers 17 Jul 2006 Java data compression people

• Java: Good World Citizen 13 Jul 2006 Java

• Building a URL Scanner With Java 1.3 01 Apr 2002 network programming Java

• A Fresh Cup of Zip 01 Dec 1997 zip Java data compression

JavaScript

• How I Spent My Last Few Weeks 04 Nov 2012 wordplay JavaScript

Linux

• Sendmail on Linux - the Easy Way 09 Dec 2011 Linux

• GCC Tries to Help - With Mixed Results 15 Aug 2011 C++ C Linux

• More on Sending Mail With Linux - Postfix Tweaks and Mailjet 31 Jul 2011 Linux

• Sapir-Whorf to Dijkstra to Torvalds - Language Bigotry In Our Time 14 Jun 2011 C++ C Linux

• The Never-ending Awesomeness of Bash 17 Oct 2010 Linux scripting

MS-DOS

• What to Do When You're Past COM2 01 Apr 1991 hardware MS-DOS RS-232 C

• Servicing COM Port Interrupts 01 May 1990 C RS-232 MS-DOS hardware

Microsoft

• Visual Studio 11 and Modern C++ 13 Mar 2012 C++ Microsoft

• VC++ 10 Hash Table Performance Problems 28 Nov 2011 Microsoft C++

• Microsoft's Audio Codec 29 Jun 2006 data compression Microsoft

• Microsoft's Delta Compression API 06 Jun 2006 Microsoft data compression C#

• XML Schema Validation in the Microsoft Universe 01 Jan 2002 XML Microsoft C++

RS-232

• A New Paradigm for Serial Port Programming 07 Nov 2010 RS-232

• What to Do When You're Past COM2 01 Apr 1991 hardware MS-DOS RS-232 C

• Servicing COM Port Interrupts 01 May 1990 C RS-232 MS-DOS hardware

Windows

• Debugging Windows Services Startup Problems 20 Apr 2014 Windows C++ debugging

• Automating PuTTY 10 Dec 2011 Windows security C++

• DNS Service Discovery On Windows 25 Oct 2011 Apple network programming Windows C++

• Anchorage, We Have a Problem 20 May 2007 snark Windows travel

• Rendering Transparent GIFs - Revisited 01 Jul 2002 graphics JPEG Windows C++

• CubeShow 01 Jul 2002 graphics Windows C++

• A C++ Debug Stream for Win32 01 Sep 2001 Windows C++ debugging

• Fun With Version Control 01 Jun 2000 Windows scripting

• Transparent ATL Controls 01 Mar 1998 Windows graphics C++

XML

• XML Schema Validation in the Microsoft Universe 01 Jan 2002 XML Microsoft C++

algorithms

• Data Compression With Arithmetic Coding 19 Oct 2014 data compression algorithms C++

• Hash Functions for C++ Unordered Containers 03 Sep 2011 C++ algorithms

• Euler Problem 328 10 Apr 2011 algorithms C++

• Brute Force vs. AI 26 Aug 2010 algorithms snark Google

• A proof that P is not equal to NP? 10 Aug 2010 algorithms mathematics people

• 5 Trillion Digits of Pi 06 Aug 2010 mathematics data compression algorithms

• Yet Another Word Puzzle 13 Nov 2007 wordplay C++ algorithms

• Building the Convex Hull 22 Aug 2007 algorithms C++

• C++ Hash Table Memoization: Simplifying Dynamic Programming 01 Aug 2007 C++ algorithms

• The Byzantine Generals Problem 23 Jul 2007 C++ algorithms

• Puzzling 01 Apr 2007 wordplay algorithms C++

• Star-Encoding in C++ 01 Aug 2002 algorithms data compression

• C++ Algorithms: next_permutation() 01 Mar 2002 C++ algorithms

• Fast String Searching With Suffix Trees 01 Aug 1996 C++ algorithms

• Priority Queues and the STL 01 Jan 1996 C++ algorithms data compression

• File Verification Using CRC 01 May 1992 algorithms C

data compression

• Hiding Data in the Filesystem 17 Jul 2018 data compression

• Data Compression With Arithmetic Coding 19 Oct 2014 data compression algorithms C++

• C++ Generic Programming Meest OOP - std::is_base_of 02 Jul 2014 C++ data compression

• The Random Compression Challenge Turns Ten 09 Oct 2012 mathematics data compression

• I'm In the Money 01 Feb 2012 data compression humor scams

• A Visit With Tim Bell 21 Jan 2012 travel people data compression

• LZW Data Compression Revisited 08 Nov 2011 C++ data compression

• Combinatorial Data Compression 09 Jan 2011 mathematics data compression

• A Little Knowledge Can Be a Felonious Thing 20 Aug 2010 data compression scams

• 5 Trillion Digits of Pi 06 Aug 2010 mathematics data compression algorithms

• The Pigeonhole Principle 01 Aug 2010 mathematics data compression scams

• Abraham Lempel Honored by IEEE 13 Jul 2007 data compression people

• Forgent's JPEG Litigation Run is Over 02 Nov 2006 intellectual property data compression JPEG

• A Voice From the Past 17 Oct 2006 data compression

• PKWARE releasing Appnote 6.3 27 Sep 2006 data compression standards

• Compression - This Is What We Do 08 Sep 2006 humor data compression

• Broadcast International Pulls Rabbit out of Hat 05 Sep 2006 data compression

• The Hutter Prize 24 Aug 2006 data compression people

• Google to release 5-gram database 06 Aug 2006 wordplay data compression Google

• Another Incredible Video Compressor? 02 Aug 2006 data compression video

• A New Mobile Video Codec 21 Jul 2006 data compression video

• Compression Tutorials for Java Programmers 17 Jul 2006 Java data compression people

• Microsoft's Audio Codec 29 Jun 2006 data compression Microsoft

• The Million Random Digit Challenge Revisited 20 Jun 2006 data compression

• Matt Mahoney Thinks Big 15 Jun 2006 data compression people

• JPEG Not Dead Yet? 07 Jun 2006 intellectual property data compression JPEG

• Microsoft's Delta Compression API 06 Jun 2006 Microsoft data compression C#

• Star-Encoding in C++ 01 Aug 2002 algorithms data compression

• Intel's JPEG Library 01 Jul 2002 JPEG data compression graphics C++

• A Fresh Cup of Zip 01 Dec 1997 zip Java data compression

• zlib - Looking the Gift Code in the Mouth 01 Jan 1997 zip C++ Delphi data compression

• Data Compression with the Burrows-Wheeler Transform 01 Sep 1996 data compression C++

• Priority Queues and the STL 01 Jan 1996 C++ algorithms data compression

• Arithmetic Coding + Statistical Modeling = Data Compression 01 Feb 1991 C data compression

• LZW Data Compression 01 Oct 1989 C data compression

debugging

• Debugging Windows Services Startup Problems 20 Apr 2014 Windows C++ debugging

• One Definition to Rule Them All 03 Mar 2014 C++ debugging

• A C++ Debug Stream for Win32 01 Sep 2001 Windows C++ debugging

• A Floating Point Problem 01 Apr 1996 C++ C debugging

• Managing the Heap 01 Feb 1990 C debugging

ebooks

• Cashing in On Electronic Books 11 Feb 2008 Amazon ebooks

graphics

• Rendering Transparent GIFs - Revisited 01 Jul 2002 graphics JPEG Windows C++

• Intel's JPEG Library 01 Jul 2002 JPEG data compression graphics C++

• CubeShow 01 Jul 2002 graphics Windows C++

• Transparent ATL Controls 01 Mar 1998 Windows graphics C++

hardware

• My Dell XPS Notebook Experience 21 Jul 2011 hardware

• The Multicore Kerfuffle and a Dose of Reality 30 Jul 2007 hardware

• Windows MCE Replacement On a Budget 14 Aug 2006 video music hardware

• The Great RAID-5 Home Project - Part 2 11 Jul 2006 hardware

• Fred Langa Punks Mark 13 Jun 2006 hardware people

• Building Your Home Video Jukebox 09 Feb 2004 video hardware

• Louis, Louis - The Preternatural Jukebox 01 Oct 2002 music hardware C++

• The Ultimate Home Jukebox 01 Jan 2000 music hardware

• What to Do When You're Past COM2 01 Apr 1991 hardware MS-DOS RS-232 C

• Servicing COM Port Interrupts 01 May 1990 C RS-232 MS-DOS hardware

humor

• I'm In the Money 01 Feb 2012 data compression humor scams

• English as a Foreign Language - A Cautionary Tale 28 Apr 2008 humor wordplay

• Compression - This Is What We Do 08 Sep 2006 humor data compression

intellectual property

• Dealing With Internet Content Ripoff Artists 14 Nov 2010 intellectual property

• Help Needed 24 Nov 2007 music intellectual property

• NY Times Considered Hip - Patent Office Considered Harmful 19 Nov 2007 intellectual property snark

• Forgent's JPEG Litigation Run is Over 02 Nov 2006 intellectual property data compression JPEG

• Forgent's Position Looking Bad 04 Jul 2006 intellectual property JPEG

• Babar K. Zafar and The Case of the Purloined Computer Science Papers 22 Jun 2006 intellectual property people standards

• JPEG Not Dead Yet? 07 Jun 2006 intellectual property data compression JPEG

• Intellectual Property: A Modest Proposal 03 Oct 2005 music intellectual property

• Patent Legislation Considered Helpful 01 Sep 1997 intellectual property

mathematics

• The Random Compression Challenge Turns Ten 09 Oct 2012 mathematics data compression

• A Big Problem That Doesn't Need a Bignum 14 Feb 2011 mathematics C++

• 20 Heads In a Row - What Are the Odds? 17 Jan 2011 Java mathematics

• Combinatorial Data Compression 09 Jan 2011 mathematics data compression

• Innumeracy Revisited - A Probability Problem 12 Sep 2010 mathematics snark

• A proof that P is not equal to NP? 10 Aug 2010 algorithms mathematics people

• 5 Trillion Digits of Pi 06 Aug 2010 mathematics data compression algorithms

• The Pigeonhole Principle 01 Aug 2010 mathematics data compression scams

• Innumeracy: Discover Magazine Should Know Better 20 Jul 2008 snark mathematics

music

• Help Needed 24 Nov 2007 music intellectual property

• Yahoo Music Unlimited - you get what you pay for 27 Nov 2006 snark music

• Windows MCE Replacement On a Budget 14 Aug 2006 video music hardware

• Intellectual Property: A Modest Proposal 03 Oct 2005 music intellectual property

• Louis, Louis - The Preternatural Jukebox 01 Oct 2002 music hardware C++

• The Ultimate Home Jukebox 01 Jan 2000 music hardware

network programming

• DNS Service Discovery On Windows 25 Oct 2011 Apple network programming Windows C++

• DNS Service Discovery 30 Sep 2011 Apple scripting network programming

• Building a URL Scanner With Java 1.3 01 Apr 2002 network programming Java

people

• A Visit With Tim Bell 21 Jan 2012 travel people data compression

• Ken Olsen, RIP 08 Feb 2011 people

• A proof that P is not equal to NP? 10 Aug 2010 algorithms mathematics people

• Jerome Kerviel, My Hero 28 Jan 2008 people snark

• Abraham Lempel Honored by IEEE 13 Jul 2007 data compression people

• Don Killen RIP 25 Aug 2006 people

• The Hutter Prize 24 Aug 2006 data compression people

• Compression Tutorials for Java Programmers 17 Jul 2006 Java data compression people

• Babar K. Zafar and The Case of the Purloined Computer Science Papers 22 Jun 2006 intellectual property people standards

• Matt Mahoney Thinks Big 15 Jun 2006 data compression people

• Fred Langa Punks Mark 13 Jun 2006 hardware people

scams

• I'm In the Money 01 Feb 2012 data compression humor scams

• A Little Knowledge Can Be a Felonious Thing 20 Aug 2010 data compression scams

• The Pigeonhole Principle 01 Aug 2010 mathematics data compression scams

• Phishers take it to the next level 24 Jul 2007 scams

scripting

• DNS Service Discovery 30 Sep 2011 Apple scripting network programming

• Stranger In a Strange Land: A C++ Programmer Learns to Love PHP 26 Jun 2011 scripting C C++

• The Never-ending Awesomeness of Bash 17 Oct 2010 Linux scripting

• Fun With Version Control 01 Jun 2000 Windows scripting

security

• Automating PuTTY 10 Dec 2011 Windows security C++

• Gawker Considered Stupid - Criminally Stupid 06 Feb 2011 security

snark

• Follow Up When? 04 Oct 2010 snark

• Headline Writing Gone Bad 01 Oct 2010 snark C#

• Innumeracy Revisited - A Probability Problem 12 Sep 2010 mathematics snark

• Brute Force vs. AI 26 Aug 2010 algorithms snark Google

• Innumeracy: Discover Magazine Should Know Better 20 Jul 2008 snark mathematics

• Slate Rips Me Off 02 Jun 2008 snark

• Jerome Kerviel, My Hero 28 Jan 2008 people snark

• Another One Bites the Dust 11 Dec 2007 snark

• NY Times Considered Hip - Patent Office Considered Harmful 19 Nov 2007 intellectual property snark

• My Breakup With Angie 14 Nov 2007 snark

• Visa vs. the Z-Axis 18 Sep 2007 snark

• Anchorage, We Have a Problem 20 May 2007 snark Windows travel

• Yahoo Music Unlimited - you get what you pay for 27 Nov 2006 snark music

• Thanks Amazon, But No Thanks 24 Sep 2006 Amazon snark

• Thanks a million, Motorola! (You suck) 27 Jun 2006 snark

• Toshiba Batteries Appear to Suck 25 Jun 2006 snark

standards

• Highlights of ISO C++14 11 Sep 2014 C++ standards

• PKWARE releasing Appnote 6.3 27 Sep 2006 data compression standards

• Free ITU Documents? 10 Aug 2006 standards JPEG

• Babar K. Zafar and The Case of the Purloined Computer Science Papers 22 Jun 2006 intellectual property people standards

travel

• Mark's Travel Guide to New Zealand 28 Jan 2012 travel

• A Visit With Tim Bell 21 Jan 2012 travel people data compression

• Anchorage, We Have a Problem 20 May 2007 snark Windows travel

video

• Windows MCE Replacement On a Budget 14 Aug 2006 video music hardware

• Another Incredible Video Compressor? 02 Aug 2006 data compression video

• A New Mobile Video Codec 21 Jul 2006 data compression video

• Building Your Home Video Jukebox 09 Feb 2004 video hardware

wordplay

• How I Spent My Last Few Weeks 04 Nov 2012 wordplay JavaScript

• English as a Foreign Language - A Cautionary Tale 28 Apr 2008 humor wordplay

• Algorithms Crossword 04 Dec 2007 wordplay

• Yet Another Word Puzzle 13 Nov 2007 wordplay C++ algorithms

• Puzzling 01 Apr 2007 wordplay algorithms C++

• Google to release 5-gram database 06 Aug 2006 wordplay data compression Google

zip

• A Fresh Cup of Zip 01 Dec 1997 zip Java data compression

• zlib - Looking the Gift Code in the Mouth 01 Jan 1997 zip C++ Delphi data compression