Rumpus Original Fiction: The Next Unicorn
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...moreLuckily, Wiener offers us more than eloquent masochism.
...moreWithout men around to impress, I discovered my own taste—what desire meant beyond the desire to be desirable.
...moreThe glorious ways we fifth graders died in Mr. Mosher’s computer class. We strove to die in the most imaginable permutations possible.
...moreUsing your English degree while coding. One foot in the real world, one foot in a story. A return to blogging? Or just marketing. Could robots be Renoir?
...moreIn Vikram Chandra’s eyes, programming’s a lot like penning a piece: When I first started programming, I was already writing my first novel, and the similarities became obvious right away: Both are iterative processes in which you construct bits of language and try to refine them; you try to construct complexity out of assemblages of […]
...more“Code poetry has been around a while, at least in programming circles, but the conjunction of oral presentation and performance sounded really interesting to us,” said Werner. Added Kagen, “What we are interested is in the poetic aspect of code used as language to program a computer.” The Stanford Code Poetry Slam, held for the […]
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