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Knuth's Bank of San Serriffe
- ams6110 16y agoI love how so many of the most distinguished names in computer science have absolutely austere websites. No tricky CSS, no javascript, just raw content.
- melling 16y agoKnuth is too busy "getting to the bottom of things." http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth Are you doing a deep dive or just tinkering with lots of things? Which one is the path to success?
- cema 16y agoDepends: when you "tinker with lots of things" you may end up connecting them in nontrivial ways, which is a win. But deep diving is the more usual path, I think.
- ilcavero 16y agoas far as I know Knuth does not even have an email account, how about that for austerity.
- pavel_lishin 16y agoWhat about money orders?
- delinka 16y agoI think his solution addresses the fact that people don't cash the financial instruments but keep them for posterity. Money orders are a suitable response to "...I shall do my best to find a suitable way to send money to anyone who really prefers legal tender."
- quinndupont 16y agoIt's a geeky solution, but nowhere near as geeky as the original cheques for $2.56. As an update, I was expecting bitcoins or something similar.
- dchest 16y agoPrevious discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=348683 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=348683
- dpkendal 16y agoMy favourite part: "... only 9 of the first 275 checks that I've sent out since the beginning of 2006 have actually been cashed. The others have apparently been cached." Partly because it's a good pun, but also because it relies on the reader knowing how to pronounce 'cache' correctly. (I've heard talks given by presenters who say "catch," "cashay," or even "catchay.")