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Inventions that came from Waterloo
- BeetleB 2y agoNot only did I not know these inventions didn't come from U Waterloo, I also did not know most of these inventions existed! If you're going to tout your inventions, it's probably better to list things people have heard of. (Of course I knew of Maple, and I think I've heard of Watcom, although I may be getting confused with another company.)
- passwordoops 2y agoAs a Canadian, I can attest chest-thumping is not our forté
- jjtheblunt 2y agoAs an American, I knew multiple of those were from Waterloo, but not all. The post makes me think Waterloo does not realize they're totally respected.
- passwordoops 2y agoAnother thing we're not good at
- zacharyozer 2y agoI think the list I wanted / expected was, “10 things we’re really proud were invented at Waterloo (that you may or may not realize were invented here)”
- joemi 2y agoWatcom was pretty big in the C/C++ world in the 90's, I think. I was only doing a little bit of C/C++ programming back then but I kept hearing about it.
- NikkiA 2y agoFor a 90s minute, between like 93 and 96. Visual Studio 6.0's VC++ swallowed its market amazingly rapidly.
- OsrsNeedsf2P 2y agoWaterloo is great on engineering, but they desperately need to help their students more. Their WUSA President killed herself just last year: https://www.reddit.com/r/uwaterloo/comments/16tjz9r/wusa_needs_to_tell_the_truth_about_stephanie/ https://www.reddit.com/r/uwaterloo/comments/16tjz9r/wusa_nee...
- tejohnso 2y agoI read a little bit of that but couldn't discern what the actual problems were aside from some frustration with management. Nothing that in itself would drive someone to suicide, as you're implying. Can you clarify?
- ozzcer 2y agoUniversities have a duty of care to their students. For someone playing such a pivotal role to have suffered to that point is inexcusable.
- k12sosse 2y agoAnecdotally, uwaterloo is the suicide capital of universities. Them math programs be hard.
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- phreeza 2y agoI thought this was going to be about the battle of Waterloo.
- mikrl 2y agoCouldn’t escape (the geese) if I wanted to…
- JadeNB 2y agoThe reason that I know UWaterloo is mathNEWS (https://mathnews.uwaterloo.ca https://mathnews.uwaterloo.ca).
- xen2xen1 2y agoFunny, Watcom C++ was the most impressive. That's been around forever.
- mmmlinux 2y agoI thought David Smith of Yorkshire, England came up with the hat shape and it was just verified by Dr. Craig Kaplan.
- Waterluvian 2y agoMy dad (UW CS grad in the 70s) loves talking about WATFIV, or, “Waterloo Fortran IV” which I’ll never tire of being the most ridiculously confusing name for something. Naming is hard but does it have to be this hard?!
- elchief 2y agoand PHP indirectly (where Lerdorf studied)
- stuxnet79 2y agoThe fact that U Waterloo didn't take this opportunity to mention PHP or Blackberry is a rather sad indictment of the Canadian tech scene
- inhumantsar 2y agoNeither PHP nor were the result of research done at UWaterloo, which is what I think they were going for here. That and showing off startups founded by multiple Waterloo students to emphasize the networking a person could do there.
- nico 2y agoI remember using Maple in college, it was a really cool tool Loved being able to visualize functions in realtime Made calculus a lot more tangible
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- pmcjones 2y agoAlso the New OED project: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~fwtompa/newoed-project.html https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~fwtompa/newoed-project.html