Comment: Re:And no patents (Score 1) 725
BTW dmr had one of the first, if not the first, software patents - setuid.
Dennis Ritchie has died->
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rjh writes "Dennis Ritchie, father of both C and UNIX, has died at age seventy. (English-speaking news outlets haven't yet picked it up yet, but Google Translate does well with the link.) In a career that not only spanned modern computing but defined it, he developed many tools and systems that we take for granted today. He received a Turing Prize in 1983 for his services to the industry, but even then he didn't slow down: he had a sterling career with Bell Labs and Lucent until finally retiring in 2007."
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Comment: Re:HRmm...... (Score 1) 312
"Getting them in the right order is just as important."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnxir7wHIuY
Comment: Re:On a related note (Score 1) 272
Southern hemisphere here. Left side episodic cluster head of about 17 years. I sense no difference this year. My other pretty regular run of winter clusters seem to have come a little early this year. But they're milder.
Comment: Re:Curious... (Score 2) 272
We're already taking the drugs "far nastier and more dangerous than mere LSD". A lot of the time they don't work and they don't work the same across all sufferers. I'm only a episodic cluster head (a lucky one) but the side effects of the meds that work for me and can stop an attack cluster are such that I prefer to ride it out without them.
More info at clusterheadaches.com
Comment: Re:This is important? (Score 3, Informative) 380
In my universe Cleopatra 2525 was the best.
Comment: Re:Interrupt Service Routines (Score 1) 140
occam, not ocaml.
Comment: Appropriate Wear (Score 1) 837
Dress like fire fighters.
Comment: Re:Google search "Go" (Score 1) 831
C+@ was essentially Smalltalk in C's clothing.
Comment: Re:X11 Chromium on Mac? (Score 1) 542
Try here.