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Still amazes me that Mike Pall was a pseudonym. I'd really love to understand what they do for a day job. Luajit is a brilliant project.

nnx 7y ago
“Mike Pall was a pseudonym” Any source on this??
- tyingq 7y ago
  Some pointers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18765514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18765514
  - saagarjha 7y ago
    It says “not any Lua stuff”, though. Presumably that would mean “Mike Pall” is their real name?
  - vijaybritto 7y ago
    Blows my mind. A huge lesson in humility
  - phpnode 7y ago
    if you google "AFLG C64" you'll see historical references to the author, one "M. Pall". I think your link indicates the exact opposite of what you're suggesting - that "Mike Pall" is his real name and that it was the "other stuff" that was published under a pseudonym.
    - est31 7y ago
      IDK why this myth of him being a pen name persists. As you pointed out, he publicly denied those claims. He also put his postal address onto the luajit homepage. And it adds up with his history at the University of Karlsruhe. You can find pointers that he was actually there in 1994, from old websites that survived the decades. His Karlsruhe e-mail address is even still being credited in linux's net/ipv4/tcp.c. The best proof I found that he's an individual is him being credited as supervisor of an academic Dipl. Inf. thesis that's still available on the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20000919224408/http://andy.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/~andy/WWW.ps.gz https://web.archive.org/web/20000919224408/http://andy.rz.un... I doubt that joking goes so far that you are mentioning a pen name on a thesis front page. In addition to the front page containing his name, the thesis also contains screenshots of websites the wayback machine hasn't caught in time that contain his name.
  - naniwaduni 7y ago
    That post (mine) was either posted in a very confused state or the opening line is simply misstated, since, as others have noted, even the quoted text implies the opposite!
clopez 7y ago
Amazing!. Didn't knew that. Its like Satoshi Nakamoto. Another anonymous genius.
jashmatthews 7y ago
Mike Pall is 100% real. No pseudonym. No group. He's an old school German hacker that previously contributed to Linux and a bunch of other open source software in the 90s.
ksec 7y ago
So much about people not believing in 10x engineers. They are very much real, along with Fabrice Bellard.

nnx 7y ago

“Mike Pall was a pseudonym” Any source on this??

tyingq 7y ago
Some pointers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18765514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18765514
- saagarjha 7y ago
  It says “not any Lua stuff”, though. Presumably that would mean “Mike Pall” is their real name?
- vijaybritto 7y ago
  Blows my mind. A huge lesson in humility
- phpnode 7y ago
  if you google "AFLG C64" you'll see historical references to the author, one "M. Pall". I think your link indicates the exact opposite of what you're suggesting - that "Mike Pall" is his real name and that it was the "other stuff" that was published under a pseudonym.
  - est31 7y ago
    IDK why this myth of him being a pen name persists. As you pointed out, he publicly denied those claims. He also put his postal address onto the luajit homepage. And it adds up with his history at the University of Karlsruhe. You can find pointers that he was actually there in 1994, from old websites that survived the decades. His Karlsruhe e-mail address is even still being credited in linux's net/ipv4/tcp.c. The best proof I found that he's an individual is him being credited as supervisor of an academic Dipl. Inf. thesis that's still available on the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20000919224408/http://andy.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/~andy/WWW.ps.gz https://web.archive.org/web/20000919224408/http://andy.rz.un... I doubt that joking goes so far that you are mentioning a pen name on a thesis front page. In addition to the front page containing his name, the thesis also contains screenshots of websites the wayback machine hasn't caught in time that contain his name.
- naniwaduni 7y ago
  That post (mine) was either posted in a very confused state or the opening line is simply misstated, since, as others have noted, even the quoted text implies the opposite!

clopez 7y ago

Amazing!. Didn't knew that. Its like Satoshi Nakamoto. Another anonymous genius.

jashmatthews 7y ago

Mike Pall is 100% real. No pseudonym. No group. He's an old school German hacker that previously contributed to Linux and a bunch of other open source software in the 90s.

ksec 7y ago

So much about people not believing in 10x engineers. They are very much real, along with Fabrice Bellard.