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
running time today
And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.
past way might
You can always affect things - so can you change it in a way that will make you as happy with it in the future as you were in the past? Maybe it won't be the same, but it might be something else you also like.
simple use calendars
I use a really simple calendar program on my computer.
focus doe looks
I find that getting something on the screen as soon as possible really helps focus the problem for me. It helps me decide what to work on next. Because if you're just looking at that big to-do list it's like, eh, I don't know which one I should do—does it matter which one I do? But if there's something you can actually look at, even if it's just the debug output of your mailbox parser, it's like, OK, there!
running linux use
Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely.
office drink desks
I eat and drink at my desk, but I'm a tidy eater.
people world want
If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.
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.