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ongoing by Tim Bray · DMR, 1941—2011

It’s hard to believe that there was a time when any of these weren’t conventional wisdom, but there was such a time. Unix is composed of more obvious-in-retrospect engineering design choices than anything else I’ve seen or am likely to see in my lifetime.

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Gamasutra - News - Steve Jobs, Atari Employee Number 40

Steve Jobs was a brilliant thinker, an inspiration, and a leader, but back in 1974 he was an 18-year-old dropout soldering resistors onto Atari's arcade games to save up for a spiritual journey to India.

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Hasnain says:

"Steve Jobs was called many things during his tragically short life -- innovator, entrepreneur, leader, father -- but back when he showed up at the Los Gatos doorstep of arcade game leader Atari in May of 1974, he was an unwashed, bearded college dropout more interested in scoring some acid than changing the world."

Posted on 2011-10-09T10:02:36+0000

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Acknowledging the Trade-Offs in Differentiation - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com

Teachers tend to focus on the middle of the pack. Or, more typically of late, on the least proficient students.

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Pakistani Family Refuses to Kill Daughter Who Was Raped, Drawing Anger

A Pakistani girl who was kidnapped and gang-raped faces a new threat: honor killings, a tradition here, but one that her family has defied

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Light-speed results baffle at LHC

Scientists are baffled by experiments that appear to show subatomic particles known as neutrinos have exceeded the speed of light.

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What’s faith got to do with it?

Opinion columns, editorials, Dawn 50 years ago today, blogs and letters to the editor on the latest national and international news and issues.

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Andrew S. Tanenbaum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Andrew Stuart "Andy" Tanenbaum (sometimes referred to by the handle ast)[1] (born March 16, 1944) is a professor of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He is best known as the author of MINIX, a free Unix-like operating system for teaching purposes, and for his ...

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