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An engineer from Charlotte, North Carolina sat down in the spring of 2000 to write software for guided missile destroyers in the United States Navy. The ships needed a database that did not require a system administrator on board. So he wrote one himself. 26 years later that database, SQLite, runs inside every iPhone on Earth, every Android phone, every Mac, every Windows machine, every major web browser, every airplane cockpit avionics system, and most of the cars built in the last decade. It is the most widely deployed software in human history. He still maintains it from his home in North Carolina. His name is D. Richard Hipp. Most people call him Richard. Here is the story, because the engineer behind the most replicated piece of code on the planet is a man almost nobody can name. Richard was born in Charlotte on April 9, 1961. He grew up in the suburbs of Atlanta. He graduated from Stone Mountain High School in 1979 and went to Georgia Tech, where he earned both a bachelor's and a master's degree in electrical engineering by 1984. He spent three years at AT&T Bell Labs working in Unix and C. Then he went back to school at Duke University and earned a PhD in Computer Science in 1992. His dissertation was on spoken natural language dialog processing under Alan W. Biermann. He could have stayed in academia. He told one interviewer the market for PhDs was saturated with better qualified candidates. He started a software consulting company instead. He married a musician and author named Ginger G. Wyrick in 1994 and renamed the firm Hipp, Wyrick and Company. Then in 2000 he picked up a contract through General Dynamics to write software for the US Navy. The target was the Aegis class guided missile destroyer. The original system ran HP-UX with an IBM Informix database backend. The whole stack required a database administrator on board. The Navy did not want a database administrator on board. Richard's job was to make the database administrator unnecessary. The design goals were simple. The database had to be self-contained. It had to run inside the application. It had to have zero configuration. It had to be transactional and reliable. It had to require no separate process. It had to be small. On August 17, 2000 he released SQLite 1.0. He wrote it in C. The whole thing fit in less than a megabyte. The license he chose was the most extreme one possible. He released the source code into the public domain. No copyright. No royalties. No restrictions. Anyone could use it for anything forever. The decision changed software history. SQLite spread quietly. Mozilla adopted it for Firefox. Apple put it inside iOS. Google put it inside Android. Microsoft started shipping it inside Windows. Chrome, Safari, and Edge all use it. Photoshop uses it. Skype used it. Every major operating system you have ever touched runs SQLite somewhere underneath. The Airbus A350 uses it for flight software. Every Boeing 787 has SQLite onboard. By 2026 SQLite was estimated to be running on more than 1 trillion devices. It is the most replicated piece of software ever written. Richard has personally turned down what is almost certainly hundreds of thousands of dollars in royalties over the past 26 years by keeping it public domain. The SQLite team is tiny. Richard and a small group of core contributors. He maintains a separate version control system he wrote himself called Fossil. He maintains a parser generator he wrote himself called Lemon. He maintains a diagram language he wrote himself called Pikchr. He is a member of the Tcl core team and has been for over 25 years. He answers questions on Hacker News under the username SQLite. The project's public commitment is to support SQLite through the year 2050. A Christian engineer from North Carolina wrote a small database for missile destroyers and released it for free. It is now running inside every device in your house.

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So Jana I went out na kuna this cab guy after nimeingia Kwa gari he was like "niaje unaenda wapi?" Mi nikamshow. So he was silent for around 3 minutes while turning the car then he's like "bro Acha nikushow Tu, nimeshindwa kuvumilia, Io cologne yako imeweza mbaya, nimeona nikushow Tu 😂". Sema kuskia fiti😂😂😂

I sleep at 5 am , what will it make me ??

Fuck being shy. Fuck being an introvert. Son, Strangers will make you rich. Start networking.

The public debt is now over Ksh 13 Trillion. We are borrowing in one year around Ksh 1.2Trillion; the amount President Kibaki borrowed in 10 years. Borrowing a net of Ksh 4Bn every day, without adding refinancing (what we borrow to pay previous loans). Kenya is also borrowing off the book from last year, just exactly what Senegal did and the more the reason they are in deep fiscal crisis. That’s why IMF is shunning Kenya. If we do not stop the profligate borrowing, for sure a reset is on the horizon. We must stop. We are African and Africa is our Business..

Fellow Ugandans, especially the Bazzukulu. Tomorrow evening at 8pm, I will address the country on the Ebola situation in Uganda. Please tune in.

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🇰🇪🇺🇸 Kenyan police are still clashing with protesters after firing tear gas and making arrests this morning over a U.S.-backed Ebola quarantine facility on a local air force base. 2 people were killed in demonstrations last week. The U.S. wants the site to house Americans exposed to Ebola in Congo and Uganda, keeping them off U.S. soil. Kenya's courts have twice ordered work to stop, but the U.S. kept building anyway. Source: Reuters / Writer: Julie

Amazon will build its first African satellite ground station in Kenya under Amazon Kuiper Kenya Limited. It will support internet speeds of up to 1,280 Mbps by linking satellites to global networks, competing with Starlink which offers speeds of about 50–250 Mbps.

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