Though pop culture is most often performed by the young, the producers and programmers and gatekeepers — the suits who largely control and create the conditions for popular culture, who make the calls and choose the pictures — are, and have always been, largely forty-somethings, and the four-decade interval brings us to a period just before the forty-something was born.
Though pop culture is most often performed by the young, the directors and programmers and gatekeepers — the suits who control and create its conditions, who make the calls and choose the players — are, and always have been, largely forty-somethings, and the four-decade interval brings us to a period just before the forty-something was born.
In 1970, Xerox had assembled the world's greatest computer engineers and programmers, and for the next ten years they had an unparalleled run of innovation and invention.
This same summer, Google engineer James Damore sent a company-wide e-mail claiming that women are biologically unsuited to being computer scientists and programmers, and that the ones employed by Google were undeserving "diversity hires".
They're voted on by a panel of critics, writers and programmers, and given by the Independent Filmmaker Project, an advocacy organization.
And professionals are guilty if guilty is quite the right word of missing out on what the wider industry, players and programmers and publishers alike, considers to be "the classics".
SM: Once I had the book I knew I needed to build a virtual school and so put together a team of animators and programmers and built and you can find the App in the Apple Store.
One such meeting hacker is Costache's inspiration, Paul Graham, a British essayist and programmer and a founder of Y Combinator, the storied Mountain View, Calif., firm that invests in and counsels start-ups.
He encouraged the hackers and programmers in the audience to develop and use new and better tools.
Increasingly commercial The popularity of Rails has spawned imitators in other programming languages - it's already been ported to JavaScript (tinyurl.com/3xwb3p) and PHP (akelos.org), and programmers at the BBC have recently developed Perl on Rails (tinyurl.com/29djbv).
