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- soundsop 19y agoThe jwz initials seemed familiar. There was an earlier post linked to the same author about the early days at Netscape: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=100176 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=100176 (or directly http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nscpdorm.html?old_title_sucked http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nscpdorm.html?old_title_sucked ).
- jcl 19y agoOn a site called Hacker News, jwz should seem familiar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jwz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jwz (see also rms, esr, dmr, gvr, dhh, etc.)
- neilk 19y agoIs this why your handle is jcl? Getting ready for fame and fortune? ;)
- jcl 19y agoI wish. :) It's a former login, as I'm sure is true of the above list. But not all famous logins are monograms; billg comes to mind... Monogram logins seem to be an artifact of some computer science departments (and other small, unix-y operations), which may be why so many hackers are known by them.
- ashu 19y agonow something that random, pointless and fun is what hacking is all about. :-)
- deathbyzen 19y agoDon't you just love purposefully breaking stuff?
- xirium 19y agoIts good to know where the limits are.
- brlewis 19y agoBest comment: One minor addition to that: Cloak (the JVM in CL) also runs ABCL, for maximum silly recursiveness: http://paste.lisp.org/display/2096 http://paste.lisp.org/display/2096