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Does Donald Knuth reads your blog too?
- joubert 16y agohow 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.
- kunley 16y agoI like ESR's idea of having semi-random cites at the top of each blog entry.
- zephyrfalcon 16y ago"Received in email from Donald Knuth’s secretary:" Doesn't this mean that the secretary reads the blog? :-)
- tincholio 16y agoI guess you're joking, but just in case... Knuth hasn't used email for years. http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html
- statictype 16y agoNothing on his blog seems to indicate any 'real important stuff'. Is he getting trolled?
- jewbacca 16y agoHe'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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond [2] http://catb.org/esr/writings/homesteading/cathedral-bazaar/ http://catb.org/esr/writings/homesteading/cathedral-bazaar/ [3] http://catb.org/jargon/ http://catb.org/jargon/ [4] http://catb.org/~esr/halloween/ 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. --- 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.
- sprout 16y agoYeah, 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.
- statictype 16y agoOh, I know who he is. I occasionally peep at his blog in the way one would glance at a train-wreck before passing along. And I don't see anything in his recent posts that would lead Knuth to conclude that he's 'doing lots of real important stuff'. The language alone sounds odd. I still think its possible that someone is just trolling him - and certainly while he seems starstruck to receive a mail from Knuth's secretary - he's boasted before about receiving emails from Knuth.
- mahmud 16y agoSpecially after his foray into sex instruction and his staged PR photo with a "girl". Tacky.
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- peterwwillis 16y agothe comments are great, especially the 'full of shit' and jessica's.