I believe when you meet the right person it clicks, and you both know and you start making it work, you know?
. . . with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.
Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.
From an operating system research point of view, Unix is if not dead certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking beyond it.
I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.
I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.
Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9
Peace talk when war is impending is hazardous for the talker, and in war time it is criminal. War talk in peace time, which is infinitely more wicked, runs no risk at all.
As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our economy and the broad universe of challenges that small business owners face in trying to make ends meet.
Graduating high school was really emotional for me. I'd obviously made a huge thing out of what that experience was for me, and saying goodbye to it was very weird. So I had to be like, boom, onward and upward.
And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.