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It's one of those very, very scarce texts where mild swearing adds something. 99 out of 100 times, it's just deteriorating the post quality and signs of bad wri
by Ruudjah 16y ago
It's one of those very, very scarce texts where mild swearing adds something. 99 out of 100 times, it's just deteriorating the post quality and signs of bad writership.
- GFischer 16y agoIndeed. Saying "Michael fucking Burrows" made me look him up (as intended, I guess :) ) "Michael Burrows (born circa 1963) is widely known as the creator of the Burrows/Wheeler transform. He also was, with Louis Monier, one of the two main creators of AltaVista" (which I guess was the point!). He ironically now works to Google according to Wikipedia.
- basugasubaku 16y agoHe is also an author of the Google Bigtable (http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable.html http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable.html) and Chubby (http://labs.google.com/papers/chubby.html http://labs.google.com/papers/chubby.html) papers. In university, we had to read one of his earlier papers, Eraser (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.22.3256 http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.22.3...).