Simplicity is a Good Incentive

An airhacks.fm conversation with Ceki Guelcue (@ceki) about:
cava the Turkish Java,
PC XT 8080,
360 kB floppy disk,
using Turbo Pascal,
developing a board game in Turbo Pascal,
learning MS-DOS,
studying physics,
using Smaky,
EPFL
Logitech is based in Lausanne,
programming over physics,
CDMA algorithm,
OSI model,
ping pong the simplest possible transport protocol,
ping pong protocol is also known as Time-division multiplexing,
TCP is a very simple protocol,
easy of implementation is an interesting property,
SLF4j a simple logging framework,
learning C and struggling with pointers,
the division algorithm is magical,
Mix Network,
developing mix-based email system,
the beginnings of tor,
the tor project,
enjoying operator overloading in C++,
DSLs might be a waste of time,
the LogBack DS,
Log4j vs. java.util.logging,
anonymity and freedom,
using traffic analysis to analyse tor,
onion routing and tor,
tor’s honeypots,
Ceki's paper: Mixing Email with Babel,
Ceki's company: qos.ch
Ceki Guelcue on twitter: @ceki