wallingf @wallingf

I'm a CS professor at a medium-sized public university, interested in most things about programs, and most other things, too. @[email protected] cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/ Cedar Falls, Iowa Joined May 2008

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Anna Gát 🧭 @TheAnnaGat

3 weeks ago

Started a new blog - 'American Innocence' - about my new life in America, my observations about culture, politics, way of life here. In my first post I ask: if tragedies are so hard to watch because we feel a lot of it is avoidable why don't we have the same defenses in politics?

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Chris Fralic @chrisfralic

3 months ago

RIP to Bill Atkinson, one of the greatest programmers who ever lived. At Apple he created MacPaint, QuickDraw, HyperCard and was a critical part of making the Macintosh magic. He co-founded General Magic - go watch that documentary.

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wallingf @wallingf

3 months ago

I hadn't heard this song in a while. This lyric stood out today: Well I'm heavenly blessed And worldly wise I'm a peeping Tom techie With x-ray eyes Timbuk 3 - The Future's So Bright youtube.com/watch?v=8qrriK…

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Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen

3 months ago

I participated in an interesting exercise with the head of a university mathematics department once Grad students were brought in and asked what things they would like changed in the department. They made many thoughtful observations Afterward, the Head complained extensively…

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wallingf @wallingf

6 months ago

It's been fifty years since I first heard a @smokeyrobinson song. Even today, every time one comes on anywhere, I stop and listen.

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Neil Renic @NC_Renic

7 months ago

Kafka only hits home runs

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wallingf @wallingf

8 months ago

I used the word "shall" in my previous post because my wife and I just finished watching the 7-hour BBC adaptation of "Middlemarch" and I have George Eliot in my ear. Two thumbs up, BTW.