December 2009
6 posts
Clojure →
How company names came about →
“American football where I grew up was a right of passage, and pretty much...”
– /. reader
On the awkwardness of functional programming →
“Some people have told me they don’t think a fat penguin really embodies...”
– Linus Torvalds
The Ken Thompson Hack →
“No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code. In demonstrating the possibility of this kind of attack, I picked on the C compiler. I could have picked on any program-handling program such as an assembler, a loader, or even hardware microcode. As the level of program gets lower, these bugs will be harder and harder to detect. A well installed...