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Got a huge is that who I think it is when I saw HN homepage this morning. Author is a well-known legend in Atlanta tech scene, especially amongst Georgia Tech a

Got a huge is that who I think it is when I saw HN homepage this morning. Author is a well-known legend in Atlanta tech scene, especially amongst Georgia Tech alum in their 30s and 40s. His stories and rants on Facebook are legendary

thrwwy646b97b8 3y ago
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obiefernandez 3y ago
Lots of other entertaining entries on that wiki if you look for them. “this is the wiki of nick black (aka dank), located at 33°46′44.4"N, 84°23'2.4"W (33.779, 85.384) in the heart of midtown atlanta. dankwiki's rollin' wit' you, though I make no guarantees of its correctness, relevance, nor timeliness. track changes using the recent changes page. I've revived DANKBLOG, this wiki and grad school having not satisfied ye olde furor scribendi. hack the planet! don't mistake my kindness for weakness. i primarily write to force my own understanding, and remember things (a few entries are actually semi-authoritative). i'm just a disreputable Mariner on your way to the Wedding. if you derive use from this wiki, consider yourself lucky, and please get confirmation before relying on my writeups to perform surgery, design planes, determine whether a graph G is an Aanderaa–Rosenberg scorpion, or feed your pet rhinoceros. do not proceed if allergic to linux, postmodern literature, nuclear physics, or cartoonish supervillainy. “
- tomjakubowski 3y ago
  whoa holdonaminute, dank is dan kegel's nick…
  - dankamongmen 3y ago
    also dan kaminsky's and to a lesser degree dan knapp's. i was put on the spot as a sixteen year old Georgia Tech freshman acquiring his college of computing account, and between a love of good weed and childish stupidity, i chose "dank@". twenty-five years later, i'm not about to change it. no insults are meant to any of the aforementioned hax0rs.
dpeck 3y ago
Quite a formidable trivia player as well.
mananaysiempre 3y ago
The broader world probably knows him best for the terminal handling library Notcurses[1] and a lot of telling terminal emulator authors to get their shit together. I’ve had his grad-school project libtorque[2] (HotPar ’10), an event-handling and scheduling library, on my to-read list for years, but I can’t seem to figure out how it accomplishes the interesting things it does. [1] https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses, https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/ https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/ [2] https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Libtorque https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Libtorque
gred 3y ago
This made me chuckle, as part of the cohort described above. I read your comment, thought to myself "what on earth is he talking about? there's nobody on my radar who might fit that bill", checked the name, and immediately thought "oh yeah, that guy." :-) I'm not on Facebook, so I haven't seen any of those stories though.
coldcalled 3y ago
Once upon a time, I was sitting in my shack in Home Park when I got a random call from an independent tech recruiter. During the discussion, I mentioned my involvement in the Linux Users Group at Georgia Tech, at which point suddenly we were discussing Nick Black's life story, which was kind of weird (I guess I was mostly listening and not talking). I don't know why the conversation took that turn, I didn't initiate the topic change. We never actually talked about the job the recruiter was calling me about, and I never heard from the recruiter again after that. To this day I think I still don't really understand what happened.
- tbrake 3y ago
  Ah Home Park. Part of the circle of life for tech students. 1. enroll. 2. get tired of dorm life. 3. move to home park because it's likely all you can afford. 4. get broken into 5-10 times. 5. move away
  - coldcalled 3y ago
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  - ethbr0 3y ago
    The trick was to have a broken window pane that you patched with duct tape and cardboard. Not one break in! Figured no one thought we were worth it. Although we were two houses across the street from Kool Korner, so maybe that was the "nicer" part of Home Park?
    - tbrake 3y ago
      Maybe it's cleaned up since the early 00's. We were over near Rocky Mountain. I should have been more precise re: break-ins, meaning more car break-ins. No idea what the home rate was, but every other week there were 1-2 cars missing windows around Lynch.
      - ethbr0 3y ago
        Oof. Hemphill was pretty rough, pre-Antico metastasis cleaning up the far end. The west & north sides of GT are unrecognizable to me now though -- condos and yuppie shops.
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jart 3y ago
He's also famous for smoking Newports outside the NYC Google office.
craigcitro 3y ago
can't believe we're this far into a thread about Nick without someone mentioning Tab.

thrwwy646b97b8 3y ago

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obiefernandez 3y ago

Lots of other entertaining entries on that wiki if you look for them. “this is the wiki of nick black (aka dank), located at 33°46′44.4"N, 84°23'2.4"W (33.779, 85.384) in the heart of midtown atlanta. dankwiki's rollin' wit' you, though I make no guarantees of its correctness, relevance, nor timeliness. track changes using the recent changes page. I've revived DANKBLOG, this wiki and grad school having not satisfied ye olde furor scribendi. hack the planet! don't mistake my kindness for weakness. i primarily write to force my own understanding, and remember things (a few entries are actually semi-authoritative). i'm just a disreputable Mariner on your way to the Wedding. if you derive use from this wiki, consider yourself lucky, and please get confirmation before relying on my writeups to perform surgery, design planes, determine whether a graph G is an Aanderaa–Rosenberg scorpion, or feed your pet rhinoceros. do not proceed if allergic to linux, postmodern literature, nuclear physics, or cartoonish supervillainy. “

tomjakubowski 3y ago
whoa holdonaminute, dank is dan kegel's nick…
- dankamongmen 3y ago
  also dan kaminsky's and to a lesser degree dan knapp's. i was put on the spot as a sixteen year old Georgia Tech freshman acquiring his college of computing account, and between a love of good weed and childish stupidity, i chose "dank@". twenty-five years later, i'm not about to change it. no insults are meant to any of the aforementioned hax0rs.

dpeck 3y ago

Quite a formidable trivia player as well.

mananaysiempre 3y ago

The broader world probably knows him best for the terminal handling library Notcurses[1] and a lot of telling terminal emulator authors to get their shit together. I’ve had his grad-school project libtorque[2] (HotPar ’10), an event-handling and scheduling library, on my to-read list for years, but I can’t seem to figure out how it accomplishes the interesting things it does. [1] https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses, https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/ https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/ [2] https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Libtorque https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Libtorque

gred 3y ago

This made me chuckle, as part of the cohort described above. I read your comment, thought to myself "what on earth is he talking about? there's nobody on my radar who might fit that bill", checked the name, and immediately thought "oh yeah, that guy." :-) I'm not on Facebook, so I haven't seen any of those stories though.

coldcalled 3y ago

Once upon a time, I was sitting in my shack in Home Park when I got a random call from an independent tech recruiter. During the discussion, I mentioned my involvement in the Linux Users Group at Georgia Tech, at which point suddenly we were discussing Nick Black's life story, which was kind of weird (I guess I was mostly listening and not talking). I don't know why the conversation took that turn, I didn't initiate the topic change. We never actually talked about the job the recruiter was calling me about, and I never heard from the recruiter again after that. To this day I think I still don't really understand what happened.

tbrake 3y ago
Ah Home Park. Part of the circle of life for tech students. 1. enroll. 2. get tired of dorm life. 3. move to home park because it's likely all you can afford. 4. get broken into 5-10 times. 5. move away
- coldcalled 3y ago
  [dead]
- ethbr0 3y ago
  The trick was to have a broken window pane that you patched with duct tape and cardboard. Not one break in! Figured no one thought we were worth it. Although we were two houses across the street from Kool Korner, so maybe that was the "nicer" part of Home Park?
  - tbrake 3y ago
    Maybe it's cleaned up since the early 00's. We were over near Rocky Mountain. I should have been more precise re: break-ins, meaning more car break-ins. No idea what the home rate was, but every other week there were 1-2 cars missing windows around Lynch.
    - ethbr0 3y ago
      Oof. Hemphill was pretty rough, pre-Antico metastasis cleaning up the far end. The west & north sides of GT are unrecognizable to me now though -- condos and yuppie shops.

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jart 3y ago

He's also famous for smoking Newports outside the NYC Google office.

craigcitro 3y ago

can't believe we're this far into a thread about Nick without someone mentioning Tab.