Gavin Lambert

A really insane person who occasionally pretends to be able to write software.

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And he actually writes software, too. He lives in AucklandCity, NewZealand, and recently completed a degree at MasseyUniversityAlbany.

He's also a big fan of the BastardOperatorFromHell, written by SimonTravaglia.

He's just started learning ExtremeProgramming (though he's done bits of it before), and he's starting to like it :)

Without question, his favourite TV series is BabylonFive, followed by ReBoot :) His favourite movie at the moment is TheMatrix. And he really enjoyed ThePrincessBride.

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MyersBriggs: INTP (67-11-44-44, at least according to one test)

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His favourite Wiki pages (in no particular order) are:

• RonJeffries
• BugsArentVoodoo
• LatherRinseRepeat
• TaoOfProgramming?
• ProgrammingIsFun
• LlanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyllLlantysiliogogogoch
• HeisenBug
• QuotesOnProgramDevelopment
• ZeroOneInfinityRule
• CowOrkers
• DafinitionalHumor
• OldRulesWithOutdatedForces

He's also getting dangerously addicted to http://www.c2.com/cgi-bin/quickChanges?days=1 Also just discovered http://www.c2.com/cgi-bin/wantedWikiPages, but hasn't decided if he's going to do anything about it yet :)

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Here's a good quote he found on CreepingFeaturitis:

"Engineers are people who love to solve problems. They love solving problems so much, that, given

no problems at all, they will invent some to solve." -- MichaelFeathers (don't know if that's his quote or if he was merely the one who put in on the page...)

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And here's something else he found lying around... he's not sure if he agrees with it (lacking sufficient information), but it sounded cool:

Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk. Nothing that achieves this level of insult to three sets of language zealots in eleven words should ever be removed entirely from Wiki.

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And another one :)

Programming is hard because its closest two traditional jobs would be mathematics and philosophy - except that unlike philosophers programmers need to produce something, and unlike mathematicians programmers have no proof of anything.

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If you want to leave any messages for him, please put them between the lines below, and please leave a name or something so that he knows what you're talking about!

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Like your quotes, Thanks -- MarcGrundfest

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