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For Triumph of the Nerds, Bob spent hours interviewing a few of us at ARDI, my Macintosh emulation company. Mat's is the only voice that made the cut. Our fridge got more air time …

Cleve was chairman of the C.S. department at the University of New Mexico from 1980 to 1984. I got my MSCS there in 1985, in a large part thanks to Cleve. I never took any of his c…

D'oh! I didn't think to mention that I do serious rucking, because I tend to think of that as running, because I actually run when I ruck. Most ruckers don't. As for injuries, I ha…

Funny you should ask. I do my core exercises on Tuesdays and Thursdays and read Hacker News while I'm doing my unweighted squats. "Normally", I run Monday through Saturday and ride…

Assuming no lying or cheating, the plural of anecdote is existence proofs.

I started programming professionally at 16. I ran my first mile at 46. I'm 62 now and have run quite a bit. There's a very good (IMO) podcast that is mostly interviews of runners o…

In compatibility, it's MUCH worse than all the others, but there's also Executor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executor_(software) which you can use to run a Macintosh version of …

Ultramarathoning is, IMO, often misunderstood. However, volunteering at an ultramarathon aid station is a great way to get exposed to the sport, since you'll get to see a wide vari…

I haven't read "The Comfort Crisis", but but for the last dozen years, I've spent three and a half months training hard to compete in the Bataan Memorial Death March male civilian …

FWIW, although it's closed source and pre-alpha, I've written a poker server (and proof-of-concept client) in Rust. A few people gather together at 5:05pm Pacific and play a tourna…

I do not think that when it's explicitly stated it becomes intuitive for everyone and that adds a further wrinkle. Many people will still get it wrong, even when the problem is sta…

I'm that old. I toggled the PDP-8 our high school had. I did it often enought that for over a decade after I stopped I had the RIM bootloader memorized. It's only a handful of inst…

As a high school student, I stopped our PDP-8 while it was running BASIC, then toggled in a little machine loop that changed all the occurrences of the 12-bit value that represente…

I too am a runner (~100 mi/week when not tapering or recovering) and "normally" I limit my caffeine to a double espresso at 5:15am. I take that one to synchronize my sleeping and b…

Ostensibly an African proverb is “If you want to run fast, run alone. If you want to run far, run together.” I'll add "If you want to run really far , call walking running." The Co…

Perhaps building a start-up is more like finishing the Hardrock 100[1]. Unless you get extremely lucky, it takes years of work just to qualify to get into the lottery. It then take…

I wrote the first 10,000 lines of ROMlib on a Mac+ with no hard drive or even a second floppy drive. I had Think C on multiple (IIRC, five) floppies and enough room to have a few p…

I get the runner's high most days when I run (and I typically run 6 or 7 days a week), starting about a half hour in. I feel very comfortable physically and mildly euphoric mentall…

I don't normally spend much time there, except at 1pm Pacific on Sundays, but at that time I can be found on #poker of my own (poorly administered) devctm.com IRC server. FWIW, twe…

SEEKING WORK Location: Albuquerque, NM, USA Remote: Yes I've posted my desire for full-time Rust work on the "Who wants to be hired?" page[0]. However, while I look for the perfect…

I've been a Ruby developer since 2005. Prior to that I did a lot with ancient C, Objective-C and assembly. I'm looking for a Junior position programming Rust. I know enough Rust to…

Short article that includes a bunch of information from this new paper: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/6/eaaw0341 I read that paper shortly after it came back and sent t…

As someone who runs a lot with a pack that typically weighs forty pounds, I highly recommend that you not do this. FWIW, I don't believe I'm damaging my joints by what I do, but I …

Location: Albuquerque, NM, USA Remote: Yes, please, preferably as a contractor Willing to relocate: probably not Technologies: Ruby / Rails since 2006, Really enjoying--but am new …

I typically "train" every day, meaning I run six days a week and ride my bike on the seventh. I do, however, have rest days; it's just that my rest days are shorter distances at a …