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Coding Machines (2009)
- obituary_latte 7y agoGreat story. Only hiccup I saw was that he mentioned the patio was always usable due to their location but towards the end he said it was “enclosed”. Are there enclosed patios still susceptible to weather?
- cicero 7y agoEnclosed patios provide some protection from the weather, but they are not the same as the insulated interior of a modern house. I've been to a house in Texas that had an enclosed patio that was unusable in the heat of summer. It acted like a hothouse.
- faitswulff 7y agoDon't want to ruin it, but I didn't expect this to be a narrative. Chilling and extremely hacker-oriented!
- tjchear 7y agoOh boy I thought the same. I had a sinking feeling until I realized it's a story.
- BubRoss 7y agoThis is someone advertising their ebook they are selling on Amazon. You probably didn't know that from the title, because it doesn't tell you anything.
- saagarjha 7y agoAnd you can read it on the website too. The title doesn’t tell you anything because if I linked the paper it’s referencing it’d spoil the story too.
- vermilingua 7y agoI have no affiliation with the author, I found it, and found it interesting. The title tells you the title of the story.
- knolax 7y agoThis was a great read. The first part reminded me of "On Trusting Trust" but obviously it's just one part of the narrative. This and I, Rowboat are probably one of the few sci-fi pieces I've ever read that didn't feel overly abstract or vague. I hope hard "computer science fiction" like this will become a genre of its own in the future.
- saagarjha 7y agoShh, don't spoil it :)
- weeber 7y agoI like the minimalist design of the website :)
- gregfjohnson 7y agoIn his Turing talk Dennis Richey discusses similar issues. It is a great read. Here's a link to it: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...