[nathan_long]

If you just want to see hash tables work as a data structure, here's a talk-as-blog-post I made on the subject.

http://nathanmlong.com/2015/10/reimplementing-rubys-hash/

[igravious]

Nathan, that was absolutely fan-fuckin-tastic. Pardon me for the potty mouthed tmesis but that was a highly highly amusing run through. How did you do the graphs? (I'm always wondering how people do graphs.) And is that really you on the sofa waking up from the dream?