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The Story of Mel... An inspirational story of what true hacking is about. http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html

• jacquesm 17y ago
  that one should be required reading for any programmer.
  • Sapient 17y ago
    Agreed. There are a few groups around who still keep this kind of spirit alive. Seeing what the guys in the demoscene can to with 64k is truly amazing, but what they do with 4k can blow your mind.
    • kragen 17y ago
      Or 64 bytes: http://canonical.org/~kragen/demo/klappquadrat.html http://canonical.org/~kragen/demo/klappquadrat.html (I wrote the explanation but not the code!)
      • jacquesm 17y ago
        that's down for me!
        • kragen 17y ago
          Yeah, the server is down at the moment. Check out a cached or archived version, or wait until tomorrow.
      • JDigital 17y ago
        Opera gives a Fraud Warning on that URL.
        • jacquesm 17y ago
          You shouldn't believe everything your browser tells you ;)
          • nor-and-or-not 17y ago
            > Safari can’t connect to the server. I don't believe him.
• psadauskas 17y ago
  Also good is Ulrich Drepper's "What every programmer should know about memory". It talks about what happens at a very low level from the CPU registers and L1-3 caches to system memory and disk, and how the OS handles it all. 8-page series on lwn, with comments: http://lwn.net/Articles/250967/ http://lwn.net/Articles/250967/ [pdf] http://people.redhat.com/drepper/cpumemory.pdf http://people.redhat.com/drepper/cpumemory.pdf