{"id":1105,"date":"2009-12-02T16:58:31","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T21:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2009-12-02T16:58:31","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T21:58:31","slug":"i-love-our-students-alumni-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2009\/12\/02\/i-love-our-students-alumni-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"I love our students (alumni edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nics_events\/468851897\/in\/pool-913304@N20\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"_eli at MICS 2007\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/200\/468851897_06ee8efbac_m.jpg?resize=240%2C160\" title=\"_eli at MICS 2007\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">_eli at MICS 2007<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThese two tweets, each wonderful in their own way, just showed up back-to-back in my Twitter stream:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The joy of programming is taking a crappy piece of code, full of hacks and bad practices, and rewriting it to be better in every way. &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/lynnkale\">LynnKale<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>for a moment I couldn&#8217;t think of a word for &#8220;thing to tell me how to do other things,&#8221; googled &#8216;how to&#8217; and figured the word (documentation) &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/_eli\/status\/6280862944\">_eli<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s gems like this that make my day.  Both authors are UMM CSci alum, now off doing cool stuff.  It&#8217;s neat to be able to stay in touch on-line.<\/p>\n\n\t<div class=\"st-post-tags \">\n\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/alum\/\" title=\"alum\">alum<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/alumni\/\" title=\"alumni\">alumni<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/programming\/\" title=\"programming\">programming<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/quotes\/\" title=\"quotes\">quotes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/students\/\" title=\"students\">students<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/twitter\/\" title=\"Twitter\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/umm\/\" title=\"UMM\">UMM<\/a><br \/><\/div>\n\n\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2013\/03\/25\/remembering-richard-crandall\/\" title=\"Remembering Richard Crandall (25 Mar 13)\">Remembering Richard Crandall<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2010\/04\/18\/holy-crap-over-5000-views-in-one-day\/\" title=\"Holy Crap! Over 5,000 views in one day! (18 Apr 10)\">Holy Crap! Over 5,000 views in one day!<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two cool tweets from two cool alumni :-).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[4,17],"tags":[480,481,82,171,257,172,225],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-hP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":293,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/01\/09\/links-for-2006-01-09\/","url_meta":{"origin":1105,"position":0},"title":"links for 2006-01-09","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"9 Jan 06","format":false,"excerpt":"copyrightcriminals.com The site for the film in progress on copyright and sampling. There's an excellent 10+ minute preview of the film available now, and I'm really looking forward to the finished piece. (tags: copyright creativeCommons digital law music opensource sampling movie video) The Store of Loathing I've never played the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Daily links&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Daily links","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/daily-links\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1265,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2010\/05\/10\/im-published-in-cacm-but-not-in-the-way-one-might-have-thought\/","url_meta":{"origin":1105,"position":1},"title":"I&#8217;m published in CACM! 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