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What a respectful view of the audience. Too bad this approach was replicated what feels like approximately 0 times after it. https://youtube.com/watch?v=kl6rsi

What a respectful view of the audience. Too bad this approach was replicated what feels like approximately 0 times after it. https://youtube.com/watch?v=kl6rsi7BEtk https://youtube.com/watch?v=kl6rsi7BEtk

mike_hearn 3mo ago
A lot of it came from Creighton. He always researched the technical details of his books to a deep level, and in fact he was also a successful computer programmer, winning an Academy Award for some scheduling software he worked on (and author, and medic and screenwriter!). What's great is he self-identified as a hacker. https://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v11n2/26_Michael_Crichton.php https://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v11n2/26_Michael_Cri... > Although he does not consider himself an expert programmer or serious hacker, Crichton is in favor of hacking and the people who do it. He explains: "It's perfectly OK for a movie director to eat and sleep movies and to have no other interest in life--that's Stephen Spielberg. He's applauded for it; he's lionized. It's fine for a symphony conductor to have no other interest than music, or for a painter to live to paint. So why isn't it OK for a person who loves computers to be totally wrapped up in computers? "I think the answer is that it is OK. I like hacking. I think the most boring thing in the world is to sit down with a bunch of flowcharts and think everything out before you start programming."
- ColinWright 3mo ago
  > ... "Creighton" ... Do you mean Michael Crichton, the author of the original book? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park_(novel)
  - ahartmetz 3mo ago
    Surely. The name is pronounced like Creighton.
    - nemesisj 3mo ago
      The name rhymes with "frighten". Source: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/crichton https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/crich... Also a Source: Name is Scottish origin, I live in Scotland.
      - ahartmetz 3mo ago
        I mixed up German and English pronunciation of "ei". The German one sounds like English "i", so it would be Crighton.
      - marssaxman 3mo ago
        Also a source: back in the '90s, I once resolved a disagreement with a friend over the pronunciation of the man's name by emailing him to ask, and "Crichton rhymes with 'frighten'" was his exact answer.
  - mike_hearn 3mo ago
    Yes, my mistake!
- Atotalnoob 3mo ago
  An academy award for software?
  - mattpharr 3mo ago
    Not just for software, but more generally for technology that influences the movie industry: https://www.oscars.org/sci-tech https://www.oscars.org/sci-tech
- jpeeler 3mo ago
  To connect this comment to another, in the video mentioned here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48916460 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48916460 Tim mentions he prefers to be called a "hacker". https://youtu.be/34r8Ypxzkk4 https://youtu.be/34r8Ypxzkk4 (28:42-28:54)
glenstein 3mo ago
Thanks for the link, and boy is that a whopper. Do my eyes deceive me or is there literally a shot of the computer looking at them from its computery perspective, through its screen, with some layer of visual digital artifacts over it at the 14 second mark?
bigcityslider 3mo ago
What about Jurassic Park 2? Never saw it
stevenwoo 3mo ago
Mr. Robot and Person of Interest(iirc) got a lot of details right.

mike_hearn 3mo ago

A lot of it came from Creighton. He always researched the technical details of his books to a deep level, and in fact he was also a successful computer programmer, winning an Academy Award for some scheduling software he worked on (and author, and medic and screenwriter!). What's great is he self-identified as a hacker. https://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v11n2/26_Michael_Crichton.php https://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v11n2/26_Michael_Cri... > Although he does not consider himself an expert programmer or serious hacker, Crichton is in favor of hacking and the people who do it. He explains: "It's perfectly OK for a movie director to eat and sleep movies and to have no other interest in life--that's Stephen Spielberg. He's applauded for it; he's lionized. It's fine for a symphony conductor to have no other interest than music, or for a painter to live to paint. So why isn't it OK for a person who loves computers to be totally wrapped up in computers? "I think the answer is that it is OK. I like hacking. I think the most boring thing in the world is to sit down with a bunch of flowcharts and think everything out before you start programming."

ColinWright 3mo ago
> ... "Creighton" ... Do you mean Michael Crichton, the author of the original book? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park_(novel)
- ahartmetz 3mo ago
  Surely. The name is pronounced like Creighton.
  - nemesisj 3mo ago
    The name rhymes with "frighten". Source: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/crichton https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/crich... Also a Source: Name is Scottish origin, I live in Scotland.
    - ahartmetz 3mo ago
      I mixed up German and English pronunciation of "ei". The German one sounds like English "i", so it would be Crighton.
    - marssaxman 3mo ago
      Also a source: back in the '90s, I once resolved a disagreement with a friend over the pronunciation of the man's name by emailing him to ask, and "Crichton rhymes with 'frighten'" was his exact answer.
- mike_hearn 3mo ago
  Yes, my mistake!
Atotalnoob 3mo ago
An academy award for software?
- mattpharr 3mo ago
  Not just for software, but more generally for technology that influences the movie industry: https://www.oscars.org/sci-tech https://www.oscars.org/sci-tech
jpeeler 3mo ago
To connect this comment to another, in the video mentioned here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48916460 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48916460 Tim mentions he prefers to be called a "hacker". https://youtu.be/34r8Ypxzkk4 https://youtu.be/34r8Ypxzkk4 (28:42-28:54)

glenstein 3mo ago

Thanks for the link, and boy is that a whopper. Do my eyes deceive me or is there literally a shot of the computer looking at them from its computery perspective, through its screen, with some layer of visual digital artifacts over it at the 14 second mark?

bigcityslider 3mo ago

What about Jurassic Park 2? Never saw it

stevenwoo 3mo ago

Mr. Robot and Person of Interest(iirc) got a lot of details right.