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"The switch had two positions... ‘magic' and ‘more magic'. "
- aston 19y agoHilarious story. And Gerry Sussman swears it's completely true. edit: GLS = Gerry Sussman, creator of Scheme, co-author of SICP, and MIT professor.
- rbanffy 19y agoHand in your geek black belt when you leave. This GLS is Guy L. Steele (also a creator of Scheme). Gery Sussman is Gerald J. Sussman. You may keep the geek card.
- aston 19y agoOh, shoot. Too true. Gerry definitely recounted this story to me, although I can't recall now whether he claimed he was involved or not. I am Aston's total lack of geektitude.
- michaelneale 19y ago"Gerry definitely recounted this story to me" - so your geek card is lifetime membership eh ?? ;)
- chrono13 19y agoFrom mccoyn's Reddit comment: "The isolated grounds was what I thought it was while reading the story. I bet when this was installed, there was a problem with the sound buzzing. Isolating the grounds would make it go away, like magic. But reconnecting the grounds while the computer was on would create a sudden ground change that might crash the computer, more magic."
- dcurtis 19y agoBeing the curious type, I don't think I would have let such an interesting switch sit idly by for a year like this guy did. Why didn't he investigate it further after first making the discovery? Such a great story though.
- mdakin 19y agoTriage (though I bet it kept popping into his head at inopportune times).
- jrnewton 19y agoAt first glance i thought this was about VIM magic... http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/pattern.html#/magic http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/pattern.html#/magic