Brian Bowman's Reading List

Know Thy Java Object Memory Layout

By Nitsan Wakart May 22, 2013

Sometimes we want to know how an object is laid out in memory, here's 2 use cases and 2 solutions which remove the need to hypothesise. A few months back I was satisfying my OCD by reading up on…

regex.learncodethehardway.org 5min

Introduction: Giants In Tiny Pants

Do you like word problems? You know those annoying "math" questions you had to study in class simply because the SAT used them. They went something like this: "A train leaving a station at 10:50pm…

wired.com 6min

Welcome to Google Island

By Mat Honan May 17, 2013

I awoke aboard a boat, just before daybreak, which was weird. The last thing I remembered was being in San Francisco’s Moscone Center, wrapping up a four-hour Google I/O keynote liveblogging…

mrbool.com 5min

How Garbage Collection works in Java

Introduction As the name suggests, Garbage Collection refers to removing of objects which are no longer in use. It is a well known fact that irrespective of their scope objects, Java stores objects…

aaronsw.com 12min

Be more productive (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)

By Aaron Swartz

Translations: | Russian With all the time you spend watching TV, he tells me, you could have written a novel by now. It s hard to disagree with the sentiment writing a novel is undoubtedly a better…

spin.atomicobject.com 2min

Towards a Haskell Logic Library

By Job Vranish May 10, 2013

In one of my previous posts, I described an implementation of miniKanren in Haskell. I have since been improving the implementation.I am currently working on the third iteration of my logic library.…

thew.me 2min

30

May 10th, 2013 Today is May, 10th 2013, which means that I am now thirty years old. Thanks to calendars, I saw this coming and was able to prepare myself. I even found some time over the last three…

web.archive.org 15min

David Foster Wallace - Commencement Speech at Kenyon University

Transcription of the 2005 Kenyon Commencement Address - May 21, 2005 (If anybody feels like perspiring [cough], I'd advise you to go ahead, because I'm sure going to. In fact I'm gonna [mumbles while…

plumbr.eu 5min

Automating a multi-platform build

This is the second post in the series describing our development infrastructure. We started with describing the external goals related to multi-platform support. In the first post we also reasoned…

wired.com 7min

The Man Behind the Google Brain: Andrew Ng and the Quest for the New…

By Daniela Hernandez May 7, 2013

There’s a theory that human intelligence stems from a single algorithm.

wired.com 8min

Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist on Creating the…

By Adam Mann May 6, 2013

When some future Mars colonist is able to open his browser and watch a cat in a shark suit chasing a duck while riding a roomba, they will have Vint Cerf to thank.

blog.jamesdbloom.com 16min

JVM Internals

By James D Bloom

This article explains the internal architecture of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The following diagram show the key internal components of a typical JVM that conforms to The Java Virtual Machine…

rockpapershotgun.com 11min

EVE Fanfest 2013: The Richest Man In Space

By Brendan Caldwell May 1, 2013

By Brendan Caldwell on May 1st, 2013 at 12:00 pm. “I’m looking for a guy called Chribba,” I said, and watched as the eyebrows of the other poker players rose. By all accounts,…

blog.restlet.com 5min

How much REST should your web API get?

May 2, 2013

How much REST should your web API get? May 2, 2013 Posted by Jerome Louvel in HTTP, REST, Restlet General, Semantic Web, Uncategorized. Tags:

bitcoinstore.com 7min

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andrewdumont.me 4min

Avoiding Burnout

It was my first startup. I was 18 and we had just raised our first real financing round – $250,000 from a local angel group. A lot was riding on us, even though the scale seems minuscule in…

zachholman.com 3min

You Won't Regret Positive Feedback

April 29, 2013 Every product that has ever existed has had to deal with feedback. The most interesting feedback happens before the product ever ships, in comments and discussion amongst your…

pragprog.com 8min

The Pragmatic Bookshelf | PragPub June 2012 | The Beauty of…

It's good to learn a new language every so often, but you have to get beyond "hello World." It's good for you to learn a new programming language from time to time. This is true even if the language…

washingtonpost.com 10min

Meet Mr. Money Mustache, the man who retired at 30

By Kelly Johnson, April 26, 2013

To hundreds of thousands of devotees, he is Mister Money Mustache. And he is here to tell you that early retirement doesn’t only happen to Powerball winners and those who luck into a big…

listverse.com 6min

Top 10 Strangest Things In Space

By Jeffrey Sieminski April 23, 2013

Space Let’s be honest: space is an absolutely crazy place. Most science fiction writers throw in a planet with two stars that looks vaguely like Southern California, and call it a day. But the…

plumbr.eu 2min

How to create a memory leak

This is going to be a rather evil post – something you will be googling when you really wish to make someone’s life a misery. In the world of Java development memory leaks are just the…

attendly.com 3min

The Benjamin Franklin Effect and why you need to quit your job before…

There’s something you should know. Your brain is reactive, and your moral values are pliable. Your actions influence your beliefs. If you’re sticking it out in a job where you’re…

blog.brownplt.org 5min

The Brown PLT Blog

Feb. 19, 2013

Posted on 19 February 2013. How do we teach students the essential ideas behind garbage collection? A garbage collector (GC) implementation must address many overlapping concerns. There are…

blog.arc90.com 1min

The Difference Between Jobs and Opportunities

By Jen Dary April 15, 2013

It’s graduation season and over the next month or two we’re going to see a new crop of candidates hit the job market. Some of them are already out there, creating profiles on job sites…

theatlantic.com 3min

The Terrifying Reality of Long-Term Unemployment

By Derek Thompson, James Fallows, Olga Belogolova, Matthew O'Brien, Christopher Orr, Alexa van Sickle, Megan Garber, Kevin Fixler, Jordan Weissmann, Sage Stossel April 13, 2013

Close your eyes and picture the scariest thing you can think of. Maybe it's a giant spider or a giant Stay Puft marshmellow man or something that's not even giant at all. Well, whatever it is, I…

highscalability.com 16min

From 0 to 10s of Billions of Page Views a Month in Two Years

Monday, April 15, 2013 at 9:25AM Pinterest has been riding an exponential growth curve, doubling every month and half. They’ve gone from 0 to 10s of billions of page views a month in two…

nerds.airbnb.com 2min

Distributed Computing at Airbnb

By Brenden Matthews

Airbnb is obsessed with creating a great experience for hosts and guests alike. One of several ways we work on doing this is by analyzing the various sources of data we have. We have a vast volume of…

psy-lob-saw.blogspot.com 5min

135 Million messages a second between processes in pure Java

By Nitsan Wakart April 8, 2013

Porting an existing single producer/single consumer concurrent queue into an IPC mechanism via memory mapped files and getting 135 million messages throughput in pure Java. In my previous post I…

newyorker.com 12min

The Creator

By Simon Parkin April 5, 2013

Markus Persson has the body of a politician but the features of a rock star: fixed, handsome eyes and a deep-dimpled smile that offsets his baldpate and thickening torso. Perhaps this is why, when he…

nathanmarz.com 10min

Principles of Software Engineering, Part 1 - thoughts from the red…

This is the first in a series of posts on the principles of software engineering. There's far more to software engineering than just "making computers do stuff" – while that phrase is…