John Dee and the occult in California
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John Dee and the occult in California
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Re: John Dee and the occult in California
#2For clarification, this article is unrelated to the well-known gaming company Wizards of the Coast: http://company.wizards.com/
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#3What does this have to do with technology or "hackers" ? Real wizards code in Lisp.
Re: John Dee and the occult in California
#4For clarification, this article is unrelated to the well-known gaming company Wizards of the Coast: http://company.wizards.com/
Nice clarification. I kept reading through it trying to get the connection -- knowing that I had missed something. Eventually I realized that they weren't related at all except both used the same phrase (which I don't think is a common one).
Honestly, I probably wouldn't have read it, if I had known that it wasn't related. After having read it, I'm not sure I would have recommended to my past self to do so (not that it's bad, just not something I'm interested in).
Re: John Dee and the occult in California
#5For clarification, this article is unrelated to the well-known gaming company Wizards of the Coast: http://company.wizards.com/
And comments like these are why I pop into the comments before I open the story.
Cheers :]
Re: John Dee and the occult in California
#6For clarification, this article is unrelated to the well-known gaming company Wizards of the Coast: http://company.wizards.com/
Another clarification: the Philosopher’s Stone may be known by Americans as the Sorcerer's Stone. The US publishers of the first Harry Potter book thought American children wouldn't want to buy and read a book with the word "philosopher" in the title, and so renamed it to suggest magic and instant gratification, rather than thought or learning.
Re: John Dee and the occult in California
#7For clarification, this article is unrelated to the well-known gaming company Wizards of the Coast: http://company.wizards.com/
Ok, we'll take that out of the title.
Re: John Dee and the occult in California
#8What does this have to do with technology or "hackers" ? Real wizards code in Lisp.
Please re-read the site guidelines. Hacker News is about interesting things.
Not everyone will find this story interesting, but that's true of any story. The post certainly isn't off-topic.
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#9So that's the Dee from cstross's quote:
"for iterator count from zero to number of entropy sinks within ground state, hear ye, hear ye, I open the gates of starry time for ye that you may feel the ground beneath your feet and the air upon your skin; I invoke the method of Dee and the constructor of Pthagn, forever exit and collect all the garbage, amen."
Re: John Dee and the occult in California
#10What does this have to do with technology or "hackers" ? Real wizards code in Lisp.
Please re-read the site guidelines. Hacker News is about interesting things. Not everyone will find this story interesting, but that's true of any story. The post certainly isn't off-topic.
How is posting this article any different than handing out a thinly disguised pamphlet for a religious organization ? If someone were posting material here about how some people in California are into "accepting jesus as their personal savior" I would find it every bit as boring and off-topic