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Julian Assange contributed to PostgreSQL
- jakeogh 7y agoJulian Assange – I’m slowly dying here…: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21924081 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21924081
- GordonS 7y agoDo we know if this was "the" Julian Assange?
- deith 7y agoThe mail address seems to check out.
- gwd 7y agoFor a while there I was getting emails about open-source related conferences organized by a guy named "Hans Reiser". After the infamous Hans Reiser was in jail. It was a bit creepy, and I felt a bit sorry for him (the non-infamous Hans just trying to organize conferences, not the infamous one who murdered his wife). EDIT: Speaking of which, Wikipedia seems to think he may be eligible for parole in a week or so. O_o
- bitwize 7y agoThat reminds me of William Hitler, nephew of Adolf, who was born in the UK and fought with the Americans in WWII. Led to some interesting conversations. "What's your name, son?" "Hitler." "Howdy, Hitler, you ready to help us fight Hitler?"
- andrewem 7y agoSee http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/to-hell-with-hitler.html http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/to-hell-with-hitler.htm... for more detail on this.
- catalogia 7y agoI sympathize with the whole "why should I change, he's the one that sucks" attitude, but having the same name as a famous murderer is probably a good opportunity to adopt a 'stage name' for professional use, if not get it legally changed. I understand 'Hans' is related to 'Johannes' and is sometimes anglicized to 'John' (I believe one of my great grandfathers did this.) One of the nice things about the name 'John' is you can change it in various ways without anybody thinking it unusual; e.g. a 'John' can also call themselves 'Jack' and nobody thinks that unusual.
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- gsich 7y agoJohann/es is usually the given name for Hans.
- justinclift 7y agoYeah, it is. It's fairly well known in PG circles. :)
- jpincheira 7y agoWow. No tests though — joke. But super impressive. Didn’t know he was a C programmer.
- runjake 7y agoYes. He also wrote Strobe in the mid-90s, which was an notable port scanner in the days before nmap came along.
- teh_klev 7y ago> Wow. No tests though These are commits from the "dark ages" and doesn't mean he didn't test his code locally. The "public" TDD culture didn't really surface until Kent Beck et-al published their TDD manifestos in the early 2000's.
- acdha 7y agoTesting did not spring forth as a concept from Kent Beck’s head: it was widely expected in, for example, Perl code on CPAN in the mid to late 90s and that was far from unique. The tools were worse or mostly paid for some languages (e.g. C) so there was more variation and justifications for not doing it.
- zelly 7y agoHe also contributed to an Emacs package http://ergoemacs.org/misc/Richard_Stallman_and_Julian_Assange.html http://ergoemacs.org/misc/Richard_Stallman_and_Julian_Assang...
- azaras 7y agoWikipedia tell us more about Julian Assange as a programer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange (Programming section)
- jakeogh 7y agoI like his search app: https://gitlab.com/surfraw/Surfraw https://gitlab.com/surfraw/Surfraw
- motohagiography 7y agoDid he also run the original bugtraq list?
- liveoneggs 7y agoHe was also an early NetBSD developer -- proff@netbsd.org https://mwl.io/archives/443 https://mwl.io/archives/443
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- JensRantil 7y agoThose are some very inconsistent commit messages.
- thih9 7y agoWhat do you mean? To me these messages seem consistent with other postgresql commit messages from around July 1996.
- JensRantil 7y agoMixed caps vs. no caps Also my OCD kicks in with sometimes colons. Additionally, periods in commit messages...
- andrenth 7y agoAlso an OCaml hacker: http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2000/08/6b8b195b3a25876e0789fe3db770db9f.en.html http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2000/08/6b8b1...
- r32a_ 7y agoHe was a prolific programmer and hacker, that is how he got his start.
- bobbyd3 7y agoHe contributed to surfraw as well. http://surfraw.org/ http://surfraw.org/
- dpeck 7y agoHe also created strobe, an early port scanner, under the handle of proff. Many people tend to forget what a small world the internet was at that time and hackers (white/black/other hat) that tended to be productive in one area were often productive in many others.
- finnthehuman 7y agoHas it really been long enough that this is no longer common knowledge? Before it was "wikileaks founder was open source contributor", it was "open source name has wiki thing for document leaks". Of course that all happened in the long long ago so there is no reason to dwell on it. It's not like every news story that has been trying to craft a hack narrative to explain Assange's actions and motivations to the public has fallen short of slashdot comments circa 2005. There's no reason to know anything about the past. Back then we developed everything in COBOL using Waterfall because no big brains were around to coin the word "agile" yet and save us from ourselves. And subversion server side hooks didn't even exist because nobody had coined the phrase "continuous deployment" yet. Dark times indeed.
- fiatjaf 7y agoSorry, but this comment is a bit nonsensical.