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MintSauce — Fri, 01 Aug 2003 02:14:13 -0800

Wanted. Worlds best programmer. Location - Superyacht. Salary - Outrageous. (Found in this weeks London Times)

otherchaz — Sat, 09 Feb 2002 19:04:27 -0800

Go for the gold! Concord 2002: Site of the upcoming Loebner Prize. Can reigning champion A.L.I.C.E. repeat her triumph? Chat bots from around the globe are scouting out their rivals on the AI competitive circuit and studying their crib notes.

grumblebee — Mon, 05 Nov 2001 20:52:06 -0800

Java is alive and kicking, and this guy knows what to do with it. Check out his sexy alife experiments (art? science?) and this goofy game. (Warning: his stuff crashed my browser a couple of times, but was worth it. Most applets are available for download.)

jjg — Thu, 18 Oct 2001 20:15:24 -0800

Call it the 0.5k. Like a certain widely-heralded Web design contest, the Minigame competition pits clever programmers against each other to see who can do the most with the least. But instead of Web pages, these competitors create games for obsolete 8-bit computers (Atari, Commodore, etc.) in two weight classes: 2K and 512 bytes (!).

machaus — Thu, 18 Oct 2001 07:20:40 -0800

Is it sloppy programming, or do full computer security vulnerability disclosure make it too easy for hackers? Microsoft has a personal interest in minimizing the exploit of their code, but the evil you know is better than the evil you don't. Others have weighed in on this debate in the past, or provided a fair but vague blueprint for the computer security community. Do you think that a middle ground exists?

SpecialK — Sat, 07 Apr 2001 22:30:07 -0800

The Story of Mel - Almost everyone's seen the Story of Mel on USENET or via email... the story of the guy who wrote programs for a particular ancient drum computer by using the characteristics of the drum to handle memory allocation and time delays. In a footnote on the Jargon File, it seems that his last name is known... An interesting footnote to an interesting and probably true story.

paladin — Thu, 05 Apr 2001 18:30:32 -0800

Article on New Scientist about "software that turns everyday language into computer code".

andrew cooke — Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:16:02 -0800

Worth downloading the plugin. Well, I thought it was funny. And free, easy 3d graphics for the web sounds like a good idea to me. Pwaaak.

lescour — Wed, 25 Oct 2000 09:12:42 -0800

just another perl poet. program your refrigerator. from /usr/bin/girl

grant — Wed, 24 Nov 1999 12:02:11 -0800

Ted Nelson rocks! This article from Interactive Week is a month old or so, but it was so enjoyable, I re-read it recently and had to post it. The HyperTextual Man writes and rants about breaking free from the conceptual shackles of interfaces and metaphors. Let the web do its own thing. Let anyone program. Of, course he's talking in terms of his Xanadu project, but nevertheless, some provoking commentary.