Funny, thanks. This is another very fun one in the same spirit:
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/what-your-favorite-sad-d...
All possible plots by major authors (2020)
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#42>> Dan Brown -- Award-winning author Dan Brown has written a complicated role for you with his expensive pen. You are a humanities professor at an Ivy League university, but also, somehow, in mortal peril. Your love interest is picturesque but ill-mannered and French. This is somehow worth several million dollars. Kafka seems low-effort though. I humbly substitute: You have inside you an extraordinary writer but are…
Don't make fun of renowned author Dan Brown! > Renowned author Dan Brown woke up in his luxurious four-poster bed in his expensive $10 million house – and immediately he felt angry. Most people would have thought that the 48-year-old man had no reason to be angry. After all, the famous writer had a new book coming out. But that was the problem. A new book meant an inevitable attack on the rich novelist by the wealthy…
Oh man this made me laugh out loud wheezing. Thank you!
> He reached for the telephone using one of his two hands
lol
Re: All possible plots by major authors (2020)
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
...re-written in Rust.
It would have better through-put if it were rewritten in Elixir, I would do it in Erlang but I find the syntax less appealing.
It's OK though, since throughput considerations don't matter as hardware is so fast now and your boss just wants you to get the thing shipped
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#44What does it say about me that I've only actually read 14 of the 56 authors in the second list [1] as an adult (i.e. by choice)? I know of quite a few, but haven't read most of them.
Here's my list (++ indicates more than 1):
Fitzgerald
Hemingway ++
Shakespeare ++
Christie ++
Brown ++
Dickens
McCarthy ++
Wodehouse ++
Steinbeck ++
Stoppard
Kafka
Conan Doyle ++
Seuss (of course) ++
Lee
If you've read more than one Dickens novel, you have my deepest respect.
Re: All possible plots by major authors (2020)
#45I miss literary fiction but with age my weakness for a point has become an all consuming vice.
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#46#All possible codebases by major programmers Linus Torvalds: you take a week-long swing at a problem you find annoying, fascinating, or both. The result enjoys staggering worldwide success in the ensuing decades, despite being clearly outclassed by some alternative from the GNU project that, pinky promise, is coming out any day now. Grace Hopper: BEGIN a framework that powers critical government functions, AND has se…
> Brendan Eich: you take a week-long swing at a problem your employer finds commercially compelling. The result enjoys staggering worldwide success in the ensuing decades, despite being clearly outclassed by the prior art it was supposed to build on.
Pretty brilliant, right? Right?
Re: All possible plots by major authors (2020)
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would have better through-put if it were rewritten in Elixir, I would do it in Erlang but I find the syntax less appealing.
It's OK though, since throughput considerations don't matter as hardware is so fast now and your boss just wants you to get the thing shipped
So long as it doesn't have leaky abstractions, it passes muster.
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#48Reminds me of "Book-A-Minute" (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/) from yesteryear.
Most of the entries are for specific books, but there are also some authors mentioned, e.g. "The Collected Works of Dean Koontz": http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/koontz.shtml
Re: All possible plots by major authors (2020)
#49What does it say about me that I've only actually read 14 of the 56 authors in the second list [1] as an adult (i.e. by choice)? I know of quite a few, but haven't read most of them. Here's my list (++ indicates more than 1): Fitzgerald Hemingway ++ Shakespeare ++ Christie ++ Brown ++ Dickens McCarthy ++ Wodehouse ++ Steinbeck ++ Stoppard Kafka Conan Doyle ++ Seuss (of course) ++ Lee A missing classic author is Rober…
A friend of mine has been reading Ulysses since 2022, I've stopped asking him about it.
Re: All possible plots by major authors (2020)
#50#All possible codebases by major programmers Linus Torvalds: you take a week-long swing at a problem you find annoying, fascinating, or both. The result enjoys staggering worldwide success in the ensuing decades, despite being clearly outclassed by some alternative from the GNU project that, pinky promise, is coming out any day now. Grace Hopper: BEGIN a framework that powers critical government functions, AND has se…
Fabrice Bellard: A problem with several competing solutions catches your fancy. Within a week you have a gleaming, state-of-the-art solution that is flexible, reliable, and extensible—all written in pure, efficient C. Everyone begins to build on your work.
Donald Knuth: While writing your magnum opus, a minor irritation arises. You invent a new subfield of computing and spend two years developing a highly idiosyncratic language and tool system.\footnote{And several new typefaces!} Your irritation dissipates and you go back to work with your writing. Generations of academics curse your creation but have nothing better to work with. They wonder if they can get Fabrice Bellard to take a crack at it…