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because it's Jamie Zawinski. he is a famous hacker. he wrote XScreenSaver and founded Netscape and Mozilla and dumped a ton of code into XEmacs. Also runs a n
by zbowling 15y ago
because it's Jamie Zawinski. he is a famous hacker. he wrote XScreenSaver and founded Netscape and Mozilla and dumped a ton of code into XEmacs.
Also runs a night club in SF called DNA Lounge.
- tptacek 15y agoAnd? He's not a codec designer. JWZ didn't ask anyone to submit his post here, but in the context of HN, this is just linkjacking. Someone should replace it with a link to the real story.
- zbowling 15y agoAnd what? I was only pointing out the significance of the person as to why he is trending because it sounds if they were not aware of who he was. I'm not giving a position either way as to if this post deserves to be trending or killed as blog spam. The real story was up trending earlier though.