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I don't actually care about byzantine fault tolerance. But, James Mickens wrote it? I'm reading.

• nemosaltat 9mo ago
  Your theories on Muppet physiology are childish and naïve, and I viciously refute them in my upcoming article “Parasitic Infections of Muppet Gastrointestinal Hand Holes.” [0] https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/tenure-announcement-april-2019/ https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/tenure-announcement-april-2...
  • EdwardDiego 9mo ago
    Oh thank you very much for that link! I have now bookmarked https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom/ https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom/ to binge read.
• cushychicken 9mo ago
  Mickens is a rare combination of bright, engaging, and absolutely hysterical. I hope I get to meet him someday.
  • bigstrat2003 9mo ago
    Same. No idea how that could ever happen but it would make my year. Mickens is a treasure.
• Avicebron 9mo ago
  The Night Watch... https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf is one of my all time favorite pieces of internet writing
  • rubenflamshep 9mo ago
    Can you believe there are people out there who haven't read this yet? I can, because one of them was me. This was incredible. > A systems programmer will know what to do when society breaks down, because the systems programmer already lives in a world without law.
    • nemosaltat 9mo ago
      Me also, I found Mickens through his Harvard Tenure post, but somehow just found Night's Watch today.
  • bloaf 9mo ago
    "I have no tools because I've destroyed my tools with my tools" is a phrase I think to myself at least weekly.