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Sham poo in the shower
Real poo in the toilet
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Hard stool in the bar.
Soft stool in the toilet.
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Reminds me of when I took my niece to a menagerie to see what was supposedly a wolf.
All we got to see was a small Chinese dog behind a dilapidated fence - it was a Shih Tzu.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Or Has he been conditioned
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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Dunno. What do the guys in the Lab coats say?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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They're waiting for the results of the cat scan.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Is there a reading list of famous/known programmers or (CS) engineers or ? biographies or related ?
A friend ask about some suggestions, and other than Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, I really don't have a clue.
Any suggestions ?
Thanks,
Max.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Alan Turing[^]? Dennis Ritchie[^]? Bjarne Stroustrup[^]?
I'm sorry there isn't a page yet for a programmer named, "Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan". Someday when there will be, I'd send you the link for that too.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Wikipedia is not really what I was looking for.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Ada Lovelace? [^]
(Sorry, couldn't help it.)
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Why sorry ?
It is the kind of reference my friends will love to look into.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Sorry because 1) it wasn't a book, and 2) I think most people that you ask about famous programmers will likely whip her out...
Although, when it came to data sciences, she was about 150 - 200 years ahead of her time.
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Unfortunately, most non-IT people would think you meant to reference Linda Lovelace [^]"!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Alan Turing: The Enigma, by Andrew Hodges is a great biography. Don't let the fact that this was the inspiration for "The Imitation Game" be of concern. In typical Hollywood style, the movie takes many liberties with the facts.
If you're interested in computer history, then perhaps The Soul of a New Machine, by Tracy Kidder might be of interest. This details the design and construction of the Data General Eclipse MV/8000/8000. It was published in 1981, and won the 1982 Pulitzer prize for non fiction.
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It isn't exactly a biography, but I've always enjoyed Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming.
It's a series of Q&A style interviews of a pretty diverse set of well known programmers:
- Frances Allen: \Pioneer in optimizing compilers, first woman to win the Turing Award (2006) and first female IBM fellow
- Joe Armstrong: Inventor of Erlang
- Joshua Bloch: Author of the Java collections framework, now at Google
- Bernie Cosell: One of the main software guys behind the original ARPANET IMPs and a master debugger
- Douglas Crockford: JSON founder, JavaScript architect at Yahoo!
- L. Peter Deutsch: Author of Ghostscript, implementer of Smalltalk-80 at Xerox PARC and Lisp 1.5 on PDP-1
- Brendan Eich: Inventor of JavaScript, CTO of the Mozilla Corporation
- Brad Fitzpatrick: Writer of LiveJournal, OpenID, memcached, and Perlbal
- Dan Ingalls: Smalltalk implementor and designer
- Simon Peyton Jones: Coinventor of Haskell and lead designer of Glasgow Haskell Compiler
- Donald Knuth: Author of The Art of Computer Programming and creator of TeX
- Peter Norvig: Director of Research at Google and author of the standard text on AI
- Guy Steele: Coinventor of Scheme and part of the Common Lisp Gang of Five, currently working on Fortress
- Ken Thompson: Inventor of UNIX
- Jamie Zawinski: Author of XEmacs and early Netscape/Mozilla hacker
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Thanks for sharing. I'm going to read that web server one as soon as I get a chance.
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Real cool dude, seriously
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