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
needs internet bigs
Your needs are big because the Internet is big.
It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
irony maximum universe
The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.
beauty running writing
Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!
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.
design looks thumbs
To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.
inspirational successful two
You can divide our industry into two kinds of people: those who want to go work for a company to make it successful, and those who want to go work for a successful company.
real class design
The real bug here is that the design of the system even permits this class of bug. It is unconscionable that someone designing a critical piece of security infrastructure would design the system in such a way that it does not fail safe.
linux programming software-development
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
focus task wants
The focus must always be on the task that the person wants to accomplish, to communicate, to learn, to create, to be entertained.
coexist discovered
I don't get much sense of reward from having discovered how to get the Foo card to coexist with the Bar card.
trying
Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes.
ease today linux
Today, I use Linux as my primary OS (on an x86 PC, and on a Thinkpad), and I also use Irix (on an SGI O2). Linux has improved a great deal since I wrote this, specifically with respect to its ease of installation.
college years use
Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?