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and ... steve-jobs is laughing all the way to the bank

> I don't see why we should be focusing all our engineering efforts on this one technological detail, tethering us forever to the idea that a license to speak on the Internet entails an IP address…

djb's description here: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html is pretty good too...

from what i remember, "the unix programming environment" by pike et al is also pretty good, and contains a basic introduction to most of the unix utilities.

in-depth discussion on the subject by 'psnively' over at reddit : [ http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dg1n3/alexander... ]…

personally for me, the fact that you can include a "live programming" in the documentation is pretty cool. almost the feel of a "repl" :)

since we are talking about probability-theory, thought folks here might find gnedenko pretty interesting: [ http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Gnedenko... ]…

the most interesting aspect of the article (to me at least) was the discrepancy about the perceived ease of locks and the actual rate of error while using them. wonder if something similar would /…