My smiles back to you ... in 1964, I coded our high school's IBM-1620, to solve a pythagorean triangle. Yep: punch-cards, assembler, and a very finicky Selectr

My smiles back to you ... in 1964, I coded our high school's IBM-1620, to solve a pythagorean triangle. Yep: punch-cards, assembler, and a very finicky Selectric. The computer couldn't even add (you had to load arithmetic tables first). Since then, I've had the delight of learning from so many people - in computing, physics, and math. Like so many on HN, I appreciate the astonishing accomplishments in our field, and recognize the troubles and challenges which we've created. Across sixty years of computing, I'm honored to spend time (usually as a lurker) on Hacker News.