[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#15607) Hacker nation

["Daniel Markstedt" <himasaram@xxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=15607 >


On 2006-02-18, at 21.28, miguel@xxxxxxxx wrote:

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> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=15446 >
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> On 2/18/06, Egor Vyscrebentsov <evyscr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=15446 >
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>> On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:42:56 -0800
>> Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa <vasco.costa AT gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On 2/15/06, Mike Kaufman <kaufman AT orion.physics.wisc.edu> wrote:
>>>> I agree that Torvalds should be removed for that reason, but he 
>>>> shouldn't
>>>> be in the Antarctic ruleset either. Leaders of Antarctica should be 
>>>> explorers
>>>> or others who figure prominently in Antarctic history.
>>>
>>> We could have a totally fictional nation. It could be called the 
>>> Hacker nation.
>>> The leaders could be:
>>>
>>> Male: Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson,
>>> Robert Pike, Donald Knuth.
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> I'd add Edsger Dijkstra, Alan Kay and Bjarne Stroustrup. Niklaus 
> Wirth, too.
>
>
>>> Female: Ada Lovelace, Grace Murray Hopper, Jean Sammet, Barbara 
>>> Liskov.
>>>
>>> The cities could be: Core Dump (Capital), Segmentation Fault, Stack 
>>> Overflow,
>>> Bus Error, Divide by Zero, Buffer Underrun, Buffer Overrun,
>>> NullPointerException,
>>> Macro, Assembler, Interpreter, Compiler, Kernel, Shell, Editor, Word
>>> Processor, etc.
>>
>> I like it! The only thing I don't understand is why capital is not 
>> Kernel Panic?-)
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> I would add Program Counter, Garbage Collection, Deadlock, Named Pipe,
> Press Any Key To Continue, Multitasking, Crontab and Type Mismatch.
>
> As for the capital city, I favor... One More Turn. Seems fitting. :-)
>
>>
>> Daniel, what are your opinions?-)
>
> I'm not Daniel but I'm voicing my opinion anyway. :-)
>
> We'll need a flag as well. I'd do a SIMPLE design: a black 2:3 flag
> with a large "//" symbol in glowing green (as in those old monitors we
> all remember with fondness.
>
> --
> Miguel Farah
> miguel@xxxxxxxx
>
>

You're free too voice you opinion Miguel. This is Free software after 
all. =)

But let's continue voice our opinions in this new shiny ticket I made 
for the Hacker nation!

Speaking of flags; attached is the Copyleftist flag from OCAL I linked 
to earlier.

-Daniel

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