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Thanks for sharing. The first article is really interesting. The author worked 3 months as an intern at Google, and his much under-appreciated works saved Steve Yegge's Grok team that has been struggling for years.

EDIT: Found another gem from the same author: http://yinwang0.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/reinvent-y/

> Today I found that I forgot how to derive the defintion of the Y combinator. I learned it several years ago from an online article, but now the search term “Y combinator” gives me all the news about startups (sigh).