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My “first” computer at home was a Burroughs B80. My Dad bought it for his accounting business in the late 70s. It was about the size of two dishwashers, had an 8in floppy, a built …

Back when I was in University, we had an Amdahl mainframe with Unix running under VM. The directory structure included an awful lot of source code. I remember porting source for le…

I wrote a language called T for Bell Northern Research, not knowing there was already another T language based on Scheme. The language was used for black box testing testing of ter…

We used this incredibly fast/compact library for Hustle DB indexes. Anyone needing a good Python interface to it could pry it out of the dependencies: https://github.com/tspurway/h…

I am a Canadian, so I neither have a say, or really can comment on American politics. This Saturday, my two daughters (ages 11 and 8) are driving a 1,700km journey to North Dakota …

Tens of millions of people are going out to the street and are not going to let these little goons take over America.

With Peter Thiel ascending to the TRump Cabinet, his extremely worrying ideas about women's and minority rights are extremely worrying: https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/pete…

Peter Thiel's "Mein Kampf" excludes women and minorities, who he feels have "damaged" democracy: https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...

https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio... Thiel believes that women and minorities have damaged democracy and openly questions whether they should be allowed …

I am reeling. Leonard's music had an uncanny sense of timing, both musical and cultural. He referenced the external, political world, indirectly - not through selfishly inward bull…

Prefix notation (ie. + 1 1) instead of infix notation (ie. 1 + 1) is much easier parse, as there are no precedence rules and you don't require different conventions for expressions…

The wise programmer is told about Tao and follows it. The average programmer is told about Tao and searches for it. The foolish programmer is told about Tao and laughs at it.

My interests in C, compilers, small computers and Unix at the time wasn't driven by career aspirations. I was just genuinely interested those things. Maybe I was "unemployable".

I remember showing my "systems analyst" brother-in-law my second year university schedule when I was planning which courses I would take that fall. "You don't have any Cobol, PL/1,…

I am an anglo who speaks french (like an anglo) and don't think I have amused my Quebecois friends more than when I used 'tabernouche' in a conversation. It's a bit of a pro-tip fo…

Mozilla | Senior Software Engineer - Content Services | REMOTE | @t1m Some things we are working on: * our new Firefox `about:newtab` page - (JS, Service Worker API) * data enginee…