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This will always be my favourite Mikens essay (The Slow Winter): https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1309_14-17_mickens.pdf https://www.usenix.org/system/files/
by samlinnfer 1y ago
This will always be my favourite Mikens essay (The Slow Winter): https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1309_14-17_mickens.pdf https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1309_14-17_mickens.pdf
- chao- 1y agoMine as well. I have a fond memory of being at a party where someone had the idea to do dramatic readings of various Mickens Usenix papers. Even just doing partial readings, it was slow going, lots of pauses to recover from overwhelming laughter. When the reading of The Slow Winter got to "THE MAGMA PEOPLE ARE WAITING FOR OUR MISTAKES", we had to stop because someone had laughed so hard they threw up. Not in an awful way, but enough to give us a pause in the action, and to decide we couldn't go on. Good times.
- eeeficus 1y agoSounds like you found nerd heaven. I couldn't imagine a situation like yours in my world! :)
- purplehat_ 1y agoBit of an aside, but I'm wondering in what city this was in. I'm going to be job hunting soon and I was planning to prioritize the Bay Area because that's the only place I've encountered a decent density of people like this, but maybe I'm setting my sights too short.
- chao- 1y agoHouston, Texas. There are nerds everywhere.
- isoprophlex 1y ago> [...] it’s pretty clear that compilers are a thing of the past, and the next generation of processors will run English-level pseudocode directly. hilarious AND scary levels of prescient writing...
- purplehat_ 1y agoIf people want to read all six, here they are! https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens My favorite is The Night Watch.