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rosche
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Comment #13269741
So you vaguely remembered something vaguely related to this that you read somewhere?
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Comment #10676068
Has anyone found the recorded version of the lecture? Missed it last night... Thanks.
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Comment #7422468
Well, LaTeX is a (slight) improvement over TeX, which was written by D Knuth. I don't think that is what they would give a Turing Award to someone for.
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Comment #6861483
Good for you?
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Comment #5981663
He was not particularly a good father figure. He spent very little time with his sons (who his ex-wife Mileva Marić, took care of). If I remember correctly, he also had a daughter …
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Comment #5967338
Thanks for this. So you think there is room for books still in the sense of Knuth. That's encouraging. :)
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Ask HN: Is there room for a Knuth-like work nowadays?
I do research in and teach computer science at all levels (BSc, MSc, PhD). My dream has always been working in academia, and to an extent, I've realized that dream, obviously. My a…
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Comment #5278602
Again! I've been hearing the "switch to functional!" spiel since the 70s (being honest, since sometime in the 60s, but I digress)... stop it already! Hasn't happened in 40 years, w…
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Comment #5075765
But I really want it to stop. I hate not being able to just "copy link address" off of the results page
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Comment #4990869
Riding some other guy's karma, are we?