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.
secret made lots-of-money
There is a lot of money to be made in the business of secrets, of course.
mail program programming
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
irony maximum universe
The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.
joy toys littles
See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.
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!
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.
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!
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.