The pioneering Android overclocking utility was co-developed by MSI and well-known software programmer "Nick Connors".
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"We're not celebrities, the characters of the Blue Men are, " Goldman, a former software programmer, happily admits.
In the past, the career path of a gifted software programmer in a poor country inevitably led to a local conglomerate.
They're just as eager to earn profits and reinvest them for maximum return as any razor-blade manufacturer, software programmer or energy company.
The other founder of 2old2play.com, Derek Nolan, a 39-year-old software programmer from Massachusetts, is now engaged to the site's editor, Tiffany Fary.
"I kind of wonder if some of the jobs I'm applying to even exist, " says Asa Denton, a 31-year-old software programmer in Reno, Nev.
"The first reason I bought my car, was because, 10 years from now, I didn't want to be embarrassed, " said Prius owner George Sulluck, a software programmer.
For his part, Ledesma grew up in the area, left to attend University of California at Berkeley and return in the 1980s to work as a software programmer.
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Also Monday, Megaupload software programmer Andrus Nomm, 32 years old, was arrested in the Netherlands and is likely to face extradition to the U.S. to face charges alongside other Megaupload staff.
Tobias, a programmer and software developer from Berlin who was watching the match, said he was impressed by the level of expertise.
Former Hearsay Social software engineer and Python programmer Kate Heddleston (and mentor at Hackbright Academy) talks about using Chef to create web application projects, specifically a Python project with a Django framework.
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Keep Crazy Audacious Goals: My aspiration was to write software and become a successful programmer.
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For 20 years Jonas, a self-taught programmer, has created software that helps casinos, banks, retailers and federal agencies string together seemingly unrelated facts to determine who you are and who you know.
John Carmack, the videogame programmer and cofounder of id Software, has a rocketry startup called Armadillo Aerospace.
Worse, looking at any manageable chunk wouldn't let a programmer trying to adjust the software know very much about the overall design intention of the program--what it's meant to do.
Try starting a software company tomorrow and explaining to a star programmer candidate that he won't end up with a meaningful chunk of equity.
Sony has been in hot water ever since computer programmer Mark Russinovich first found the contentious XCP software on his computer, prompting damaging publicity, suspension of the software, and recalls.
BitTorrent started out in 2001 as snazzy software for vastly faster downloads, designed by Bram Cohen, a freelance programmer in Berkeley, Calif.
Sabiston, a professional programmer and engineer, got Nintendo to send him a DS software development kit which allowed him to pump out a sweet painting and animation app to make his DS bot a visual virtuoso (example pictured left).
"We took on the marketing process itself, " says McLaughlin, who had spent five years as a programmer for Eli Lilly and moonlighted selling his homemade wedding-planner software over the web.
Fabrice Bellard, a computer programmer who is best known as the creator of the FFmpeg and QEMU software projects.
He established his first studio Adventures Unlimited Software, Inc. in 1983, where he acted as the lead designer and programmer of several fantasy role-playing computer games.
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Rollo Carpenter, a chatbot programmer, hopes to automate the high-level functions too, by developing software that can directly replace human operators.
This iconoclastic programmer, who had combined one good idea with the right few lines of software to make an overnight fortune, wanted something radical out of the philanthropy business.
In 1965, a programmer at Applied Digital Research (ADR), named Marty Goetz, filed the first software patent.
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Like other open source software, such as the operating system Linux, Firefox's code is freely available for any programmer to examine and improve.
Wall Street powerhouse Bear Stearns recently received a 100, 000-line chunk of fresh software from its Bangalore development team, a block too big to check easily or to spot a single programmer's habitual errors.
Much in the way the phone system migrated from operators hand-switching every call to users dialing directly, Intentional Software could let a marketing executive create the code needed for a product campaign with just minimal mediation from a programmer.
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