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Strange, I only submitted this to give context to the other thing I submitted which is the story of the RB211 Rolls Royce engine that bankrupted the company and
by buro9 12y ago
Strange, I only submitted this to give context to the other thing I submitted which is the story of the RB211 Rolls Royce engine that bankrupted the company and yet helped it to be re-born as a stronger entity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8420407 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8420407
As an added bonus, having stumbled upon the story of the RB211 from the short mention in the above-linked BBC article, there is a free talk at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London by a former Director or Engineering at Rolls Royce on the RB211, the engineering feat that it was to produce it and the company at that time... the talk is on the 10th November 2014, and the link is in the other discussion thread that is linked above.
PS: Nice to see that HN really has a soft spot for Turing.
- louthy 12y ago> PS: Nice to see that HN really has a soft spot for Turing. One of the original hackers surely?
- buro9 12y agoPythagoras would have that crown IMHO, Turing was relatively recent. I wonder whether there can be said to be some overlap between the non-Dialectic philosophers of old and the pioneers of computing.
- JonnieCache 12y agoBabbage and Lovelace were earlier. But as buro9 says, the greeks have them beat, as always.