Brian Kernighan
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Brian Kernighan is a Canadian computer scientist, born on 30 January 1942 in Toronto.
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6 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 30 January 1942, Toronto (opens wiqqi.app)
- Bell Labs: Worked on Unix; coined the name Unix (opens wiqqi.app)
- Books: The C Programming Language (with Dennis Ritchie); The Go Programming Language (2015) (opens wiqqi.app)
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2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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7 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Reusing a password makes your security only as good as the weakest site. (opens korrents.com)
“But it seems that the most common problem is using the same password for more than one site. If you do that, your security is no better than that provided by the site with the weakest controls”
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Students who use phones and laptops in lectures learn less than those who focus. (opens korrents.com)
“There’s little doubt that people who play with their phones and computers while sporadically tuning in to the lecture do not learn as well as those who focus.”
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Social networks erode privacy because their business model is selling users' data. (opens korrents.com)
“Social networking sites are useful, but their business model is to sell detailed information about their users. As a result, our personal data spreads far and wide, our privacy is eroded and our risks increase.”
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Reusing a password makes your security only as good as the weakest site. (opens korrents.com)
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5 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Sam (opens rcmnd.app)
“I use Rob Pike's Sam editor most of the time – that's what I'm using right now – and vi the rest of the time, because I know it well enough that there's no need to think.”
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Alpine (opens rcmnd.app)
“As the last representative of the dinosaur era, I read mail mostly with Alpine, which is faster and easier than any web-based system I know, and does a nice job of storing my mail locally.”
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Awk (opens rcmnd.app)
“I write really short things in Awk, and use Python for longer text processing applications.”
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Sam (opens rcmnd.app)