Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement • Hacker News Board

Re: Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement

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Post by avar » Wed, Jul 07, 2010, 12:26 PM UTC

Since the HTTP mirrors warp and cicada put up are getting hammered I've made a Torrent of Don-Knuth.mp4:

http://v.nix.is/~leech/Don-Knuth.mp4.torrent

It's using the OpenBitTorrent tracker. Please seed it.

Re: Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement

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Post by mark_h » Wed, Jul 07, 2010, 1:37 PM UTC

The best thing is somewhere someone is probably working on actually implementing this, like so many XKCD cartoons.

Re: Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement

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Post by hugh3 » Wed, Jul 07, 2010, 2:07 PM UTC

michael_dorfman wrote: post #15

ojilles wrote: post #14

Anyone have a quick summary of what this is even about?

It's a product announcement by Knuth, for a successor to TeX. Telling any more would spoil the fun-- and if the sentence above doesn't sound like big fun to you, well, then don't even bother with the link, you're not in the target audience.

Really, it's a video, not everyone wants to watch a video.

Can I assume it's a joke product rather than a real product?

Re: Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement

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Post by smallhands » Wed, Jul 07, 2010, 3:33 PM UTC

malkia wrote: post #16

zephjc wrote: post #2

This is a very slow site. Is there a mirror for this?

fyi: The new product would speed up such sites, using it's cloud technology built-in, or as a plugin.

please explain what is fyi?

Re: Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement

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Post by russell » Wed, Jul 07, 2010, 3:56 PM UTC

smallhands wrote: post #24

malkia wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

fyi: The new product would speed up such sites, using it's cloud technology built-in, or as a plugin.

please explain what is fyi?

For Your Information, a pre-internet acronym.

Re: Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement

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Post by TallGuyShort » Wed, Jul 07, 2010, 4:15 PM UTC

hugh3 wrote: post #23

michael_dorfman wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a product announcement by Knuth, for a successor to TeX. Telling any more would spoil the fun-- and if the sentence above doesn't sound like big fun to you, well, then don't even bother with the link, you're not in the target audience.

Really, it's a video, not everyone wants to watch a video. Can I assume it's a joke product rather than a real product?

Yes, it's a joke product. It's 34 minutes, and rather funny, but not likely something you'd take time out of your day to watch in it's entirety.

Re: Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement

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Post by lvecsey » Wed, Jul 07, 2010, 5:12 PM UTC

Society has a little bit of iTex in all its products.

Re: Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement

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Post by pyre » Wed, Jul 07, 2010, 5:21 PM UTC

smallhands wrote: post #24

malkia wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

fyi: The new product would speed up such sites, using it's cloud technology built-in, or as a plugin.

please explain what is fyi?

The name of the company that Murphy Brown worked for.

Re: Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement

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Post by michael_dorfman » Wed, Jul 07, 2010, 7:18 PM UTC

TallGuyShort wrote: post #26

hugh3 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really, it's a video, not everyone wants to watch a video. Can I assume it's a joke product rather than a real product?

Yes, it's a joke product. It's 34 minutes, and rather funny, but not likely something you'd take time out of your day to watch in it's entirety.

Different strokes, I guess. I take 34 minutes out of my day to watch a Knuth video every chance I get.

Re: Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement

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Post by chronomex » Wed, Jul 07, 2010, 8:07 PM UTC

avar wrote: post #21

Since the HTTP mirrors warp and cicada put up are getting hammered I've made a Torrent of Don-Knuth.mp4: http://v.nix.is/~leech/Don-Knuth.mp4.torrent It's using the OpenBitTorrent tracker. Please seed it.

I can't seem to contact the tracker. Does it work for other people?