Another one of my personal heroes and someone who shaped me very early on in my life as a computer scientist, John McCarthy, the Father of Lisp, has passed on. I can’t begin to imagine how I might have turned out as a CS person without discovering Lisp early in University. It has pretty much affected how I view programming as both a craft and an art form.
I just heard that Dennis Ritchie passed away:
Rob Pike - 8:02 PM - Public I just heard that, after a long illness, Dennis Ritchie (dmr) died at home this weekend. I have no more information. I trust there are people here who will appreciate the reach of his contributions and mourn his passing appropriately. He was a quiet and mostly private man, but he was also my friend, colleague, and collaborator, and the world has lost a truly great mind.
Dennis was co-inventor of the C Programming Language, which all modern computer operating systems are based upon, with Brian Kernighan, and co-inventor of Unix, with Ken Thompson.
The C Programming Language book
Dennis Ritchie
Ritchie, Thompson and Kernighan were all big heroes and inspirations for me in my early career. Their influence is great; many, many people will not ever know how much influence these people have had on their daily lives.
RIP, Dennis. :’(
Edit: Or as my friend Joe put it:
All in the mood for the final Harry Potter movie? Make some of these cupcakes!
Harry Potter Cupcakes from http://getinmahbelly.com/
In an amazing response to the meme that won’t die, Wil, Paul, Storm and Adam have come up with a hilarious little bit of collaborative funny:
Wil Quits w00tstock! – w00tstock.
Oh an totally agree with commenter Mary Mactavish: that should have been Marian Call in that picture!!
via theCHIVE: girl quits job on dry erase board exposes farmville boss called her hopa.
Young office assistant Jenny (may be not her real name) quit her job recently by emailing a set of photos to everyone in the office. She gets back at her sexist boss in the process very handily.
UPDATE: Looks like it’s a hoax.
