[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Hacker nation [Was: Re: (PR#15446) undesirable rulers]

["miguel@xxxxxxxx" <miguel@xxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=15446 >

On 2/18/06, Egor Vyscrebentsov <evyscr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=15446 >
>
> 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.

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?-)

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.

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Miguel Farah
miguel@xxxxxxxx