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Goodbye to Thien-Thi Nguyen
- toomuchtodo 3y ago"Emacs is the ground. We run around and act silly on top of it, and when we die, may our remnants grace its ongoing incrementation." -- Thien-Thi Nguyen. https://savannah.gnu.org/users/ttn https://savannah.gnu.org/users/ttn https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ThienThiNguyen https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ThienThiNguyen https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emacs https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emacs
- bitwize 3y agoHe was also a Guile hacker back in the day. I will miss him.
- notorandit 3y agoDid it take 1 year to know he was passed away?
- kelnos 3y agoI thought this was notable too. I guess sometimes people's online lives are separate enough from their in-person lives that a long online absence can be attributed to the person just taking some time away, without anyone digging in to find out what's going on.
- jdblair 3y agoOh no, this is sad to read. I worked with ttn a long time ago, 1999 to 2001, and lost touch with him a few years later. The last time I saw him in person was in my kitchen in Oakland in 2001. He was one of the good ones.
- qorrect 3y agoWhat were y'all working on back then?
- jdblair 3y agoWe worked at Cobalt Networks at the same time, then a smaller software company in Berkeley for a short time.
- em-bee 3y agooh, i have one of those cobalt cubes (no longer in use, don't know if it still works). i loved that machine. it served as a home server for many years.
- linuxlizard 3y agoI loved the Cobalt Cube! Such an awesome bit of hardware and software.
- eduction 3y agoI love Cobalt Cube. Were you there after it sold to Sun? Did you know Thomas Oh?
- jdblair 3y agoI left before the acquisition, and then re-joined the team formally known as Cobalt at Sun in 2002. I don't remember Thomas, but it has been a long time. I worked remotely, so unless I worked directly with someone I was not likely to know them. Also, it was the Cobalt Qube :)
- raybb 3y agoRest in peace. Also looks like his site is gone already (but on IA) https://www.gnuvola.org/ https://www.gnuvola.org/ If you know some links to his works or projects maybe add it to his wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110168816 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110168816
- zelphirkalt 3y agoI saw some of his projects in the GNU Guile ecosystem. Always wondered who that might be.
- nalaginrut 3y agoHe was a great Guile hacker, and his work inspired me a lot. RIP