Does Donald Knuth reads your blog too?(esr.ibiblio.org) |
Does Donald Knuth reads your blog too?(esr.ibiblio.org) |
Doesn't this mean that the secretary reads the blog? :-)
one would think the top left heading would be a hyperlink most current article or something.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond
[2] http://catb.org/esr/writings/homesteading/cathedral-bazaar/
[4] http://catb.org/~esr/halloween/
[5] ...not really, he's far more balanced than RMS. He's a guns-and-crypto nut, and defends his position well.
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That he's so starstruck by contact with Knuth surprises me -- occupying, as they do for me, roughly equal mindshare in the category of "old-school computer celebrities", I figured they'd just know each-other. I guess I don't really have any model of intra-celebrity social diffusion, and that category needs to be more granular.
ESR is to Knuth what Sarah Palin is to Milton Friedman.
And I don't see anything in his recent posts that would lead Knuth to conclude that he's 'doing lots of real important stuff'. The language alone sounds odd.
I still think its possible that someone is just trolling him - and certainly while he seems starstruck to receive a mail from Knuth's secretary - he's boasted before about receiving emails from Knuth.
That said, Knuth reading my blog seems outside the realm of possibility, ESR less so.
I dunno, I'm just surprised to see the lack of recognition apparent in a thread on Hacker News about someone who I think of as a notably important figure, a hacker elder. I'm not from that era, maybe I just read too much Slashdot back in the day.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL
[2] http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral...
However, the email implies that esr is currently busy doing important things.
esr hasn't done anything important in a decade. [1]
This is the disconnect--that people do not know of anything that esr is currently doing not that they do not know who esr is.
[1] Actually, TAOUP was published in 2003 so seven years, but it is still ages in this field.
I think a lot of people are turned off by esr because of his arrogance and ego.