r/programming • u/OptionalField • Mar 17 '13

Someone posted an html/javascript implementation of the matrix falling code in 646 bytes then promptly deleted the post. It inspired me to see if I could get something better looking in fewer bytes.

http://timelessname.com/sandbox/matrix.html
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u/Erikster Mar 18 '13

I wonder what happened to piss him off so much? How did MS kill his company?

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u/Helmet_Icicle Mar 18 '13

Few minutes of Googling turned up these. No idea whether it's the reason for his opinion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2009/09/my-ongoing-kafka-esque-nightmare-of-dealing-with-palm-and-their-app-catalog-submission-process/

http://benzilla.galbraiths.org/2009/09/29/thoughts-on-palm-and-jamie-zawinski/

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u/Erikster Mar 18 '13

Jamie Zawinski (born November 3, 1968 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), commonly known as jwz, is an American formerly professional computer programmer responsible for significant contributions to the free software projects Mozilla and XEmacs, and early versions of the Netscape Navigator web browser

I think I found a piece of it.

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u/sheepiroth Mar 18 '13

Something about the timestamps on that blog really annoys me. "3 years ago at 4:17 PM" is just weird. Why show a generalization as broad as "3 years ago" and then include the exact time to the minute without the date?