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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a programmer.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a very bottom-up thinker.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.
- Open
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.
- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.
- Data
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.
- Posing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.
- Hackers
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.
- Protect
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- Nov 07, 2020
No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.
- Collaboration
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- Nov 07, 2020
That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.
- Ever
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- Nov 07, 2020
The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.
- Executing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress.
- Objects
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- Nov 07, 2020