Does Donald Knuth reads your blog too?
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Does Donald Knuth reads your blog too?
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#2how the hell do you get to the blog's top? I can only browse forward/backward through articles and the top right images link elsewhere.
one would think the top left heading would be a hyperlink most current article or something.
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#3I like ESR's idea of having semi-random cites at the top of each blog entry.
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#4"Received in email from Donald Knuth’s secretary:"
Doesn't this mean that the secretary reads the blog? :-)
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#5how the hell do you get to the blog's top? I can only browse forward/backward through articles and the top right images link elsewhere. one would think the top left heading would be a hyperlink most current article or something.
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#6Nothing on his blog seems to indicate any 'real important stuff'. Is he getting trolled?
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#7how the hell do you get to the blog's top? I can only browse forward/backward through articles and the top right images link elsewhere. one would think the top left heading would be a hyperlink most current article or something.
Big blue text in the upper left corner that's not a link - BAD!
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#8Nothing on his blog seems to indicate any 'real important stuff'. Is he getting trolled?
He's Eric S. Raymond (widely known as ESR)[1], a major contributor to and early public advocate of the open-source community[2], originator and maintainer of much enduring 80s and 90s hacker humour[3], sometimes shit-disturber[4], and libertarian borderline crank[5].
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond
[2] http://catb.org/esr/writings/homesteading/cathedral-bazaar/
[4] http://catb.org/~esr/halloween/
[5] ...not really, he's far more balanced than RMS. He's a guns-and-crypto nut, and defends his position well.
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That he's so starstruck by contact with Knuth surprises me -- occupying, as they do for me, roughly equal mindshare in the category of "old-school computer celebrities", I figured they'd just know each-other. I guess I don't really have any model of intra-celebrity social diffusion, and that category needs to be more granular.
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#9Nothing on his blog seems to indicate any 'real important stuff'. Is he getting trolled?
He's Eric S. Raymond (widely known as ESR)[1], a major contributor to and early public advocate of the open-source community[2], originator and maintainer of much enduring 80s and 90s hacker humour[3], sometimes shit-disturber[4], and libertarian borderline crank[5]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond [2] http://catb.org/esr/writings/homesteading/cathedral-bazaar/ [3] http://catb.org/jargon/ [4] http://…
Yeah, personally I think his reaction at hearing Knuth reads his blog wouldn't really be any different from mine at hearing he reads my blog.
That said, Knuth reading my blog seems outside the realm of possibility, ESR less so.
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#10the comments are great, especially the 'full of shit' and jessica's.