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Jim Nelson

San Francisco, CA

http://j-nelson.net

I work for Internet Archive developing scalable solutions for the Petabox infrastructure.

At the Yorba Foundation I led development of open source applications Shotwell, a photo manager, and Geary, a lightweight email client.

I also write novels and short stories: j-nelson.net

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How do I avoid checking for nulls in Java?
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39
What are the major technical difference between Multics and Unix?
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33
What made some 8-bit BASIC interpreters especially slow?
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29
How did Atari lose money on home computers?
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25
Is there any hard data about type-in programs in the 80s?
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24
What's keeping Shotwell from replacing EOG?
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24
Why was Wireplay "faster and more reliable" than dial-up Internet, since they both used the same hardware?
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20
Difference between a HashMap and a dictionary ADT
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20
When connecting to the Internet via Dial-Up, why did ISPs require a username/password to authenticate the session?
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20
How was the first release of Java (JDK 1.0) used?
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18
Best refactoring for the dreaded While (True) loop
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18
Is Face Recognition coming to Shotwell?
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18
What languages are better fit for generating efficient code for 8-bit CPU's than C?
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16
Why did the MS-DOS API choose software interrupts for its interface?
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15
How to use a Qt GUI with Vala?
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14
Are there statements from IBM insiders revealing why OS/2 was dropped?
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14
How can I access/use memory outside of the standard 1 MB address range of MS-DOS?
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13
Fun programming languages
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13
Where can I find software that was designed for Windows 1.0?
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13
Early implementations of the `system()` call in a consumer OS
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10
java.net versus java.nio
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10
Why has Novell never written its own boot loader?
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9
How to setup Shotwell for multi-user access?
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8
Can Shotwell create a folder structure based on the date the photos were taken?
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8
Why didn’t the 1980s micros use MC68010?
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8
When were Player/Missile graphics in Atari computers first documented?
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7
Embedding Windows Media Player for all browsers
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7
Duplicate events in Shotwell
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7
How to change Shotwell keyboard shortcuts?
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7
How do I make Shotwell regenerate all the thumbnails?
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