[bjacokes]

I get that this is dry subject matter and some humor helps to lighten it up, but I found the writing style distracting. Some paragraphs are dense with algorithm details, others just have a picture of a tech office, a story about running into someone on BART, or descriptions of data structures as "lame" or "losers". Made it really tough to retrace my steps and get context from the preceding section.

[Animats]

Yes. I'm starting to call this "neckbeard writing".

[pfarnsworth]

I don't think neckbeards have 24" arms (as per OP's site).

[slobdell]

thanks!