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thanks. now i have nightmares.



what are you talking about? we all got rich from all that Klein Money in 2008. still reverberating in the economy as we collectively decided not to buy booze and steak and instead invested them all /s


The most adorable part is I remember the era of, "A Tim Horton's employee in Alberta gets paid HOW MUCH ?!" And now I'm living through the super butt hurt whining about an Alberta Brexit because they're not getting enough of a break by the federal government.


maybe if it wasn't all spent on jacked-up F-350 pickup trucks, overly expensive large houses, snowmobiles and toys...


Beat me to it. I recall CBC articles about all of the abandoned trucks at the Edmonton and Calgary airports as oil workers decided to split.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-internation...


Robert Griesemer, from the Thompson/Pike/Griesemer triumvirate that created Go, did his PhD under Wirth.


the article mentions plan9 but says that it left a lot to be desired due to unstructured text input/output interface.

i want to note that Inferno, the other OS that came from Bell-Labs in the 90s did have a typed shell called alphabet:

http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/man/1/sh-alphabet.html

mayhaps you'll find this interesting.


I've come across this several times in the past, but never paid too much attention to it. I'll check it again. Thanks.


the locations are identical to the ones users submitted for ingress, the previous game niantic did.

for that you didn't need much vetting and because the popularity was low nobody cared so much. most likely some servicemen (servicepersons?) submitted the spots.


"дядо мраз" in bulgaria. we also celebrated xmas with a quiet family vegetarian dinner, not having such a massive clampdown on religion, and "mraz" delivered presents on new year's. after 1989 things came back to normality and he's now called "дядо коледа". new year's is just a drinking holiday :)


One suggestion: go with the PDF and not the web page. Grab a comfy recliner and just tune out for a while. The difference between the layouts of the magazine article and the webpage are atrocious. Shows you what we've lost in this modern age :(

I'll buy his book. It will go along with many others I've accumulated from that era, such as a 'A Short History of Nuclear Folly'. Atom bombs and planes is what that time was all about, for me.


Nice example of how personal preferences can be different (and probably dependant on the choice of reading medium).

My first impression upon loading the article on my 5.8" phone's web browser was: "Wow, an easily readable article, at last!". To me, PDF seems readable only on much bigger screens or printed.

Compare:

PDF: https://imgur.com/a/RaPE4Av

HTML: https://imgur.com/a/YpLnclz


I was also struck by how readable (on a phone) the web article is. I appreciate the clear effort in both formats. I also liked they they had a DOI up top.

If medical journals could present the online versions of articles this nicely I would be a much happier person, and would also have far less files called 1-s2.387-887sd-main.pdf and similar.


(Another day, another person on the interwebs assuming their preferences and tastes are the right ones. Not sure what you're looking at. The article looks great on my tablet and I happily read the entire thing without a second thought.)

Anyways, this document was definitely stolen and Bordan (or someone close to him) most likely was the culprit. Just as the Russians are sowing discord among Americans now, this is what they were doing then as well. Bordon wanted to collect all the info about the H-Bomb in one place, almost took down Wheeler and successfully took down Oppenheimer later. Pretty suspicious.


another day, another person on the interwebs attacking what is clearly a suggestion (with a supporting narrative) thinking it's presented as gospel.

the typesetting in the pdf is clearly superb to my tastes. there are many ways to present he same dish. i prefer the fancier that can be enjoyed longer.


oh, you mean since Roswell? ok.


Currently #1 in "Best Sellers in Computing Industry History" on amazon, which is somewhat of a weird category :)


It's almost as if the more "best seller" lists there are, the more authors will make efforts to get onto them :)


Any book is a bestseller in some category.


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