It is important to know that these are books for computer scientists more than for software engineers. They are basically mathematics textbooks, about the mathematics of algorithms. They focus on proving theorems rather than implementing useful algorithms.

There is a book called concrete mathematics that is sort of an introduction to TAOCP. If you’re interested in the basics that may be a good place to start. It has a better title than TAOCP in that it explicitly mentions mathematics, but also an equally bad one because it’s very much theoretical rather than concrete.

I suggest you play the first, then decide whether you want more.

That comma in the title made me think they blame Iran for Trump.

(b) will just lead to fewer up and down votes, i.e. less engagement. That in turn could lead to slowly bleeding out.

You mean the thing that Opera had in the 90s, and Vivaldi since inception?

I often feel this bot is no better than selecting random bits from an article. I’m exaggerating a bit, but it’s clear the bot doesn’t actually understand the essence of what’s written.

That said, I do still appreciate it for getting at least a gist of what an article is about. And I very much appreciate the people working on it and making it available.

I thought this might be an interesting read until I saw the blurb with 4 hashtags and 4 emoticons in just 4 sentences.

I … Wha…. WHY??

I did, once. It didn’t work.

Removed ‘/dev/null’. You wouldn’t believe how many things rely on /dev/null.

43 metre? Those are some real tall children.

The points made in the article are that server admins should have policies regarding privacy and data retention, that users should be aware of this possibility, and that developers should ensure more of the users’ data is encrypted at all times.