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An Interview with Russ Cox and Sameer Ajmani

Posted on 2015-04-12 by jcs

Michael Hicks is doing a series of interviews with PhDs in industry working on programming languages. In his latest post, he interviews Russ Cox and Sameer Ajmani both of whom work for Google on the Go language. As many of … Continue reading →

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The Tricorder Draws Nigh

Posted on 2015-04-10 by jcs

First Prototype of a Working Tricorder Unveiled at SXSW

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Ferrier on Agile

Posted on 2015-04-07 by jcs

InfoQ has a nice interview with Nic Ferrier on good software and agile. Irreal has mentioned Ferrier several times: he’s a good hacker and someone who deserves to be taken seriously. Ferrier’s take is the agile is a way to … Continue reading →

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New Programming Jargon

Posted on 2015-04-05 by jcs

Recently, I wrote about the glories of the Jargon File and remarked that the hacker jargon it records is often hilarious. It’s easy to burn up a couple of hours browsing around in it. Now Jeff Atwood over at Coding … Continue reading →

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A Bit of Wisdom from John Carmack

Posted on 2015-03-29 by jcs

Fighting down my urge for a terse binary encoding and embracing s-expressions for network transport is helping a lot with development. — John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) March 17, 2015 For an wonderful and revealing example of using s-expressions for data interchange, … Continue reading →

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Do The Impossible or You’re Incompetent

Posted on 2015-03-27 by jcs

A customer walks into a bar. He asks for a beer made out of wine. The project manager agrees. Both question the bartender's competence. — Daniel Méndez (@mendezfe) March 22, 2015

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The New Yorker and GNU

Posted on 2015-03-21 by jcs

The New Yorker is celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the GNU manifesto with a nice article on RMS and his work on Free Software. All-in-all it’s a pretty good article considering that it’s appearing in a non-technical venue. They get … Continue reading →

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The Magic Story

Posted on 2015-03-11 by jcs

Years ago, I had a printed copy of The Jargon File and spent many happy hours reading through it. If you haven’t browsed through the file, you should. It’s full of screamingly funny tidbits about our Hacker Culture and Language. … Continue reading →

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Why?

Posted on 2015-03-09 by jcs

Words fail me. Why would anyone do this? WTF is wrong with IBM?! “JSONx is an IBM standard format to represent JSON as XML http://t.co/LLCzz2jTLz” pic.twitter.com/P2xyAo4W2c — Dan Harper (@DanHarper7) September 24, 2014

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Seriously Paper Free

Posted on 2015-03-08 by jcs

I’ve written before that I’m rigorous about avoiding paper, pens, and pencils. I’m pretty good about doing everything digitally but nowhere near as good as these guys. Their feat is even more impressive when you realize that they’re doing it … Continue reading →

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