With the England vs. Germany game around the corner this coming Wednesday, I caught a sniff this weekend of a new book called “Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think.” I ...

For many years–decades actually–I was a big fan of beautiful code. I read almost everything by Brian Kernighan, Jon Bentley, and P. J. Plauger. This passion for elegant code was an attempt to ...

A fraction written out in Nemeth Braille Code (brailleauthority.org) One night in the late 1940s, Abraham Nemeth was helping some World War II vets with their calculus studies when he went up to the ...

In his 1889 treatise “The Gospel of Wealth,” Andrew Carnegie wrote, “Without wealth, there can be no Maecenas,” referring to the patron of ancient Roman poetry. A few weeks ago, the two founders of ...