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In memory of great people, other than great developers. via Old programmers never die | ahmet alp balkan : blog.

Nice list. via The Principles of Good Programming.

Robert Morris, the cryptographer who helped create Unix, has died at the age of 78. Morris began his work on the groundbreaking OS back in 1970 at AT&Ts Bell Laboratories, where he played a major role in developing Unixs math library, password structure and encryption functions. via Robert Morris, man who helped develop Unix, dies [...]

So, I recently started reading Susanne K. Langer’s classic Philosophy in a New Key (PNK). (Before I became a developer I got a couple degrees in philosophy, which is absolutely my first love.) Langer is a very wide-ranging thinker with publications in everything from formal logic to aesthetics. PNK covers a lot of ground and [...]

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