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HN's software should probably replace non-trailing exclamation points with something rather than nothing. I took the Extra bit out of the title for now, since it isn't needed and I suppose might confuse younger readers.
What does this "Extra!" bit mean?
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Oh and obviously TeX will always be considered classic 20th century code literature. And probably git too, especially as it's very useful and almost forces the casual user to appreciate the poetry of its data structures.
> And probably git too Not sure about this, given the fact that this exists:: https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/
We don’t have shorter attention spans. We simply cannot handle the utter crap that passes by articles today.
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As far as I understand, he quit his public life when someone hunted down and published his real name and address. He removed his website and github, which contained his various writings, some of which had names with "tutorial" or "guide" in them but all of which were at least 80% works of literature and at most 20% works of technical documentation. Not sure I would call it "ragequitting". Virtually all his works were…
> Not sure I would call it "ragequitting". Expecting to maintain a large public reputation and stay anonymous and then stopping when the facade is cracked is pretty unrealistic.
What's so hard about understanding somebody's desire for their art to be in the world without violating the boundary between that and their personal life?
I often wonder how many lines of Javascript I load every day just to browse the web and watch images fade in and out and animate etc. and all the megabytes of framework garbage I load just to display some content. By comparison, it's depressing.
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Oh and obviously TeX will always be considered classic 20th century code literature. And probably git too, especially as it's very useful and almost forces the casual user to appreciate the poetry of its data structures.
> And probably git too Not sure about this, given the fact that this exists:: https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/
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As far as I understand, he quit his public life when someone hunted down and published his real name and address. He removed his website and github, which contained his various writings, some of which had names with "tutorial" or "guide" in them but all of which were at least 80% works of literature and at most 20% works of technical documentation. Not sure I would call it "ragequitting". Virtually all his works were…
> Not sure I would call it "ragequitting". Expecting to maintain a large public reputation and stay anonymous and then stopping when the facade is cracked is pretty unrealistic.
This is the first time in many many months I’ve read an article from begin to end, in one sitting. And then I looked the date it was written: 1971. We don’t have shorter attention spans. We simply cannot handle the utter crap that passes by articles today.
> Eyles and some of his fellow Consciousness IIIers regard computer programming as a fine craft that might some day be elevated to the status of an art. “It’s possible to envision a time when there are professors of the literature of computer programming. Maybe some programmers will be minor poets of the 20th Century. The trouble is that programs are written in a language there’s no audience for. It’s like Nabokov’s…