Penn Jillette’s Surprising Success as a Computer Columnist
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#2This contextualizes the Hackers cameo a little.
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#3One of his buddies is Rob Pike.
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#4I was an avid reader of PC/Computing in middle school and vividly remember calling that fake ad number.
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#5What a terrible article.
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#6One of his buddies is Rob Pike.
Another is Randy Pitchford.
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#7One of his buddies is Rob Pike.
I once got to have dinner with Penn and Rob Pike years ago. I had no idea at the time who Pike was. Looked him up afterwards (this was pre-Wikipedia) and felt like an idiot.
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#8Penn created Desert Bus...worst computer game ever.
https://www.polygon.com/2013/7/10/4510388/why-teller-created...
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#9Over the years, I've really come to appreciate Penn Jillette as a public person. Always pops up with new interests and insights.
Believe it or not, something about his recent appearance on Rogan inspired me to cut down my drinking. Just the way he made a life of temperance seem aspirationally cool (and not just cool in a Christian rock sort of way)
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#10I love his “thurman” idea.... definitely going to use that the next time someone asks me for help with a computer problem. Ehh, maybe only in April since it’s a little mean.