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Peter Warrington
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"did you eat railtrack"

"no" - me with a suspiciously railtrack shaped belly
The Times online article, Sunday October 16 2005 Headline: Focus: The man who ate Railtrack Railtrack investors lost their case for compensation last week. But, says the former Whitehall insider Martin Sixsmith, trust in the chancellor has been seriously undermined
August 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Wikipedia screenshot: In the world of computing science, Dijkstra is well known as a "character". In the preface of his book A Discipline of Programming (1976) he stated the following: "For the absence of a bibliography I offer neither explanation nor apology." In fact, most of his articles and books have no references at all. Dijkstra chose this way of working to preserve his self-reliance.
November 30, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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man that's cool
Text from a Stack Exchange answer: Dear @colmmacuait, I think that if you type "man" at 0001 hours it should print "gimme gimme gimme". #abba @marnanel - 3 November 2011 er, that was my fault, I suggested it. Sorry. Pretty much the whole story is in the commit. The maintainer of man is a good friend of mine, and one day six years ago I jokingly said to him that if you invoke man after midnight it should print "gimme gimme gimme", because of the Abba song called "Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight": Well, he did actually put it in. A few people were amused to discover it, and we mostly forgot about it until today.
November 18, 2024 at 5:27 PM