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    phenomenon that Paul Graham has discussed in "The Blub Paradox". Graham considers a hypothetical Blub programmer. When the programmer looks down the "power...
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  • bodybuilder Paul Graham (novelist), American novelist Paul Graham (photographer) (born 1956), British photographer Paul Graham (programmer) (born 1964),...
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  • This is a list of programmers notable for their contributions to software, either as original author or architect, or for later additions. All entries...
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  • park in Berlin A hypothetical programming language imagined by programmer Paul Graham 5,6-dimethylbenzimidazole synthase, an enzyme An informal term for...
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    Graham William Nash OBE (born 2 February 1942) is a British and American musician, singer and songwriter. He is known for his light tenor voice and for...
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  • Ontario, Canada) when, starting in 1966, he and his colleague Paul Dirksen led a team of programmers developing a fast Fortran programming language compiler...
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  • developed by Paul Graham and Robert Morris. It is free and open-source software released under the Artistic License 2.0. In 2001, Paul Graham announced that...
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    Matthew Smith (born 1966) is a British video game programmer. He created the games Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy for the ZX Spectrum, released in 1983...
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  • Director(s) Paul Martin Designer(s) Dave Grove Programmer(s) Tim Green Artist(s) Ollie Simmonds Writer(s) Steve Goss Paul Martin Graham Reznick Composer(s)...
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  • and record producer. Bill Atkinson, 74, American computer engineer and programmer, pancreatic cancer. Walter Brueggemann, 92, American theologian and Old...
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    primary meaning is a complimentary description for a particularly brilliant programmer or technical expert. A large segment of the technical community insist...
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    presenter Paul Ross, television presenter Graham Gooch, former England cricketer Paul Hayes, professional footballer Paul Davis (programmer), founding...
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  • introducing novel twists to the game's logic. Absurdle, created by British programmer qntm, is an adversarial version where the target word changes after each...
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    Sam Altman (category American computer programmers)
    basis. In February 2014, he was named president of YC by co-founder Paul Graham. In a 2014 blog post, Altman stated that the total valuation of YC companies...
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    services. The language originated at Viaweb, a company founded in 1995 by Paul Graham and Robert T. Morris, as the template language for their e-commerce platform...
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    pen mechanisms allowing the programmer to create a design on a large sheet of paper. The original Logo turtle, built by Paul Wexelblat at BBN, was named...
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  • it was not a word that the first programmers used to describe themselves. In fact, many of the first programmers were from engineering or physics backgrounds...
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  • suggests using a widely accepted, fully featured language like Lisp. Paul Graham also highlights the satiric nature of the concept, albeit based on real...
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    Richard D. Greenblatt (born December 25, 1944) is an American computer programmer. Along with Bill Gosper, he may be considered to have founded the hacker...
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  • Steve Yegge (category American computer programmers)
    Steve Yegge is an American computer programmer and blogger who is known for writing about programming languages, productivity and software culture through...
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    again by Paul Dobson. Victor von Doom appears in Fantastic Four (2015), portrayed by Toby Kebbell. This version is an anti-social computer programmer who works...
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    Robert Tappan Morris (category American computer programmers)
    and later the venture capital funding firm Y Combinator, both with Paul Graham and Trevor Blackwell. He later joined the faculty in the department of...
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  • Nolan Worthington Programmer(s) Patrick Senior Writer(s) Graham Goring Mike Bareham Composer(s) Simon Withenshaw Suddi Raval Paul Weir Platform(s) Nintendo...
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  • on the east and west coasts of the United States. Gabriel was a Lisp programmer when he formulated the concept in 1989, presenting it in his essay "Lisp:...
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    Obama and John McCain. Impressed by the cereal boxes, computer programmer Paul Graham invited the founders to the January 2009 winter training session...
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    older brother, Andy, and a younger brother, Sean, who work as a computer programmer and potter, respectively. When Moynahan was around seven years old, her...
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    including for creating TidalCycles, a live-coding environment that allows programmer musicians to code simply and quickly, and for coining the term Algorave...
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  • closed. REPLs facilitate exploratory programming and debugging because the programmer can inspect the printed result before deciding what expression to provide...
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    programmers were inspired by writers such as Paul Graham and Eric S. Raymond to pursue a language others considered antiquated. New Lisp programmers often...
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  • Design patterns can be viewed as formalized best practices that the programmer may use to solve common problems when designing a software application...
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