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Gotta love HN. The man himself shows up to explain.
by rjbwork 4y ago
Gotta love HN. The man himself shows up to explain.
- thiht 4y agoImagine being on a math forum discussing Fermat’s theorem and the guy shows up. This is such a cool aspect of CS being a young field: influent people are still alive!
- Beltalowda 4y agoAndrew Wiles showing up would probably be the next best thing.
- sillysaurusx 4y agoRuss also showed up. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34181846 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34181846 Readers might also enjoy his writeup on how google code search worked. https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp4.html https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp4.html Just discovered it.
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- cbolton 4y agoIt happens in math too! for example: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/81960/the-dzhanibekov-effect-an-exercise-in-mechanics-or-fiction-explain-mathemat https://mathoverflow.net/questions/81960/the-dzhanibekov-eff...
- tristanbvk 4y agoCan I show up for the future?
- arkadiytehgraet 4y agoFermat would probably get banned for too much trolling around the proof of his last theorem...
- eddsh1994 4y agoFor those like me who didn't know, GP designed Nagle's Algorithm in 1984 working at Ford Aerospace.
- bsaul 4y agoi thought you mistyped your comment and wanted to reply to rsc ... then i clicked on animats profile. Yeah HN is becoming a treasure trove for CS.
- matheusmoreira 4y agoYeah, it's pretty cool. I'm gonna start saving these moments every time they happen. Last time I witnessed something like this was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24455758 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24455758