Buy vs Rent calculator

Nifty calculator.

Turns out I'd only ever be better off buying if the property costs less than $120k. And even then, not by much.

Alternatives to Red Black Trees

Treaps, AA-trees, ravl trees.

Maybe it's just me but I find that I use hashmaps more than sets and ordered maps. Yet I find more people talking about trees than hashing schemes. Hmm.

A zillion monkeys

C, Assembler, optimization; you know, "real" programming.

This is one of those places you stumble upon one day and go "geez where were you all my life?" :)

Popular goals

Interesting list. Many of the items fall into the "what? you don't do this already?" list for me.

HTML 5 test

Stuff that can and cannot be used

Note to self: browse around this

There seems to be some interesting stuff in this blog

Discogs

Might be useful at some point.

Black holes, white holes

Interesting theory.

Pthread API design

A nice post about good API design