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Universal geometry? N.J. Wildberger’s Divine Proportions claims rational trigonometry can drop sin, cos, and tan for plain arithmetic and algebra.

Functional logfile processing. Check logs for a task running on multiple nodes at once, first with Perl’s diamond operator and hashes, then in Haskell.

ATOMATOFLAMES and then some. Airworthiness rules are scattered across the FARs: a tour of ARROW, FAR 91.203, 91.205, and 91.213, and a handy calculator.

Soviet socialism in our former commercial republic is frightening. This column calls the HealthSouth case against Scrushy a witch hunt fed by regulation.

Racing summer storms through an FAA commercial checkride: 61.123 requirements, scenario-based oral questions, the flight maneuvers, and a full cost breakdown.