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Re: Programming Language Creator or Serial Killer?

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Post by tomxor » Sat, Jan 23, 2021, 10:46 AM UTC

injb wrote: post #4

5/10. It's surprisingly hard...I even hesitated over Guido!

I got 9/10

But I think I know why... I started going partly by the style of the photograph, and partly by facial expression, but not their actual face.

[Edit] shame it's not random or a pool larger than 10, I can't do multiple trials to figure out if I just got lucky.

Re: Programming Language Creator or Serial Killer?

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Post by nickkell » Sat, Jan 23, 2021, 10:48 AM UTC

Next time I'm on a zoom call with my colleagues I'll be studying their faces for signs of evil intent

Re: Programming Language Creator or Serial Killer?

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Post by Someone » Sat, Jan 23, 2021, 10:58 AM UTC

CamperBob2 wrote: post #47

ktpsns wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ironically, Steve Jobs supported USB, the Universal Serial Bus ;-). Maybe we could agree that Jobs wanted to kill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-subminiature ? :-)

I thought Apple was pushing FireWire at the time?

FireWire is serial, too. It seems that, over larger distances, parallel only is faster up to a certain clock frequency (or if you want to go to extreme lengths to ensure each wire in a parallel channel has the same transmission delay, as Cray did (https://www.reddit.com/r/cableporn/comments/11vku2/each_of_t...)

Re: Programming Language Creator or Serial Killer?

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Post by wigster » Sat, Jan 23, 2021, 11:50 AM UTC

was the inventor of USB a serial killer? ;-)

Re: Programming Language Creator or Serial Killer?

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Post by mft_ » Sat, Jan 23, 2021, 12:14 PM UTC

injb wrote: post #4

5/10. It's surprisingly hard...I even hesitated over Guido!

Same here. It didn't help that his T-shirt was similar in colour to the stereotypical orange prison jump-suit :)

Re: Programming Language Creator or Serial Killer?

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Post by JohnStrangeII » Sat, Jan 23, 2021, 12:45 PM UTC

Some could be both...

Re: Programming Language Creator or Serial Killer?

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Post by formerly_proven » Sat, Jan 23, 2021, 12:55 PM UTC

lovecg wrote: post #54

codazoda wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kraft and Reiser, right?

What filesystem did Kraft create? Wikipedia is silent on the matter.

Score cards are a filing system.

Re: Programming Language Creator or Serial Killer?

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Post by torginus » Sat, Jan 23, 2021, 1:18 PM UTC

My takeaway is both programmers and serial killers look like regular people (and have some unflattering photos). The bias that you can tell killers apart by what they look like is created by the media, who probably choose sinister-looking photos when reporting on murderers.

Re: Programming Language Creator or Serial Killer?

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Post by msie » Sat, Jan 23, 2021, 1:21 PM UTC

That and this discussion was a brief moment of escape. Brings me back to my care-free days. Thank you!

Re: Programming Language Creator or Serial Killer?

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Post by perpetualpatzer » Sat, Jan 23, 2021, 1:22 PM UTC

tomxor wrote: post #81

injb wrote: post #4

5/10. It's surprisingly hard...I even hesitated over Guido!

I got 9/10 But I think I know why... I started going partly by the style of the photograph, and partly by facial expression, but not their actual face. [Edit] shame it's not random or a pool larger than 10, I can't do multiple trials to figure out if I just got lucky.

Even just applying filters or some more recent, casual killer photos would be helpful. For some, the "photo scanned from newspaper" look was identifiable.