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I was the first corporate web master for AltaVista and joined in January 1996 to manage everything except for the actual search engine itself. It was my first real job at a large c…

Git blame is one of the best tools for understanding the history and archeology of a large legacy code base. There is nothing worse when you're trying to do solve some problem that…

It explains the reasons why the community should not do this. Also the community has generally updated and followed whatever the "leadership" has done so far and for good reason. I…

Very cool. I'm a lisp programmer now, but this reminded me that as a teenager I was learning how to do games programming on my C64 using an incredible Forth compiler and games fram…

There are many things that keeps Nicaragua poor, this is hardly the most important one. Similar low level corruption is found all over Latin America except for perhaps Chile. It di…

We implemented the first USSD bitcoin wallet in Kenya a couple of years ago. USSD as a technology is good, but the biggest problem is access to the networks. If you think its hard …

It is said often that the police in many cities in the US are mainly focused on revenue generation. Whether this is true or not I don't know. But if it is, it is no more honest tha…

Crime is lower. The few gangs that are here don't really spread outside their barrios like they do in just about every other country in Central America. http://www.npr.org/sections…