Lex Spoon

I see continued assumptions by people that the real names policies of Facebook and Google Plus have actual teeth. I've posted before o...

Type inference can make code much better. It can save you from writing down something that is completely obvious, and thus a total waste of ...

I've been exclusively using Google Voice for months now, and just for voice mail for more than a year. I feel like the plain-old telepho...

It's getting out of hand the way C compilers exploit undefined behavior. I see via John Regehr's blog that there is a SPEC benchmark...

The Internet has undergone many large changes in the protocols it uses. A few examples are: the use of MIME email, the replacement of Gopher...

Gilad Bracha has a great post up on virtual classes : I wanted to share a nice example of class hierarchy inheritance....All we need then, ...

It seems we had a bad week for programmers. I learned via James Robinson that Andreas Raab has died. There is an outpouring of messages on...