Jamie Zawinski
Jamie Zawinski
James Werner "Jamie" Zawinski, commonly known as jwz, is an American computer programmer with contributions to the free software projects Mozilla and XEmacs, and early versions of the Netscape Navigator web browser. He maintains the XScreenSaver project which provides screenblanking for Mac OS X and for Unix and Unix-like computer operating systems using the X Window System...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth3 November 1968
CountryUnited States of America
bars cards rewards
I dont get much sense of reward from having discovered how to get the Foo card to coexist with the Bar card.
two dixie cups
C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string.
different aspect worst
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
thinking tools linux
I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.
giving firsts toys
If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.
design looks thumbs
To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.
leaving empires foreign-policy
Any time someone says "that's it, I'm leaving" I ask them whether they'd prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy. As bad as things get inside an empire, they're usually worse in the protectorates.
inspirational successful two
You can divide our industry into two kinds of people: those who want to go work for a company to make it successful, and those who want to go work for a successful company.
school degrees news
One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree; he's produced a lot of great software, has his own news group, and made enough in stock options to buy his own nightclub.
engineering might hackers
Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
real class design
The real bug here is that the design of the system even permits this class of bug. It is unconscionable that someone designing a critical piece of security infrastructure would design the system in such a way that it does not fail safe.
college years use
Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?
ease today linux
Today, I use Linux as my primary OS (on an x86 PC, and on a Thinkpad), and I also use Irix (on an SGI O2). Linux has improved a great deal since I wrote this, specifically with respect to its ease of installation.
linux programming software-development
Linux is only free if your time has no value.