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In This Talk (billwadge.wordpress.com)
68 points by rutenspitz 2286 days ago
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the_af 2284 days ago
This was a fun read, thanks for sharing.

"Computer science arrogance is measured in nano-Dijkstras" :)

I wasn't familiar with Bill Wadge. Apparently he designed Lucid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_(programming_language)

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dang 2284 days ago
Yup, the pioneering dataflow language (along with Ed Ashcroft) much praised by Alan Kay.

Wadge has been blogging for a few years now, some about Lucid and more recently telling stories from his academic career.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

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learnstats2 2284 days ago
I found this super-hard to read, mainly due to having to keep referring back to the acronyms that I didn't understand the definitions of.
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unwind 2284 days ago
This was also submitted yesterday [1], but didn't spark much of a discussion then.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22591303

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the_af 2284 days ago
Your link is the same as this one ;)

I think the problem is the title. "In This Talk" doesn't look interesting enough, and in fact I hesitated before clicking. Now I'm glad I did, it's an amusing bunch of anecdotes.

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Torwald 2284 days ago
I knew what the title meant the moment I saw it. Being good at giving talks is not completely unimportant for people who want to make money in a venue similar to that of Steve Jobs or so.
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the_af 2284 days ago
Hehe. I actually avoided it because I thought it was "entrepreneurial" advice on giving talks, the sort of article I hate.

Instead, this was a bunch of amusing anecdotes from an oldschool CS guy, no practical advice for startups whatsoever. The kind of article I enjoy! ;)

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unwind 2284 days ago
Oops, thanks!

Still don't understand what happened, pretty sure I saw this listed as being posted less than an hour ago, but the one I saw when I searched was "1 day ago". Weird.

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syrrim 2284 days ago
I believe the moderators will on occasion reset the timer for submissions they feel didn't get a good enough reception the first time around. Presumably this post is one such.
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dang 2284 days ago
Yup. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... has lots of explanation if anyone wants it.
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