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Donald Knuth On NPR
StratoFlyer writes "This morning, NPR is running an interview with Donald Knuth titled Donald Knuth, Founding Artist of Computer Science. The persistence of this man is extraordinary, if not heroic. RealPlayer and MediaPlayer feeds will be available at 10am EST, according to the NPR.org site." Indeed they are.
It's a fact of our society: If you are really good at math it's ok to be a fricken psycho.
If you are a linguistics genius or a master of philosphy and you have some phobias or social anxiety well it's off to the funny farm with ya...but if you can bang out the differential equations then it's all good!
TeX is already long in the tooth, and will become obsolete soon. His books, on the other hand, are meant to stand the test of time, and he's retired from being a professor to takle Vol 4 full-time. http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/retd.htm l
Obviously I'm respoding to a die-hard code hacker, but its a bit insulting to dismiss Knuth's books as of "much less practical importance."
real is played in linux
i wish people would get over the open-sourced-ness of apps on linux. you should have learne by now that the only shit open source is good is for ripping off people, and when somebody rips someone off they usually inherit the bug list from the original.
I sure as hell dont want to see a million players for real player and whatnot, i just want one who works.
(talk about -5, offtopic)
Look for all the parallel posts saying X is dumb, Y is dumb. Here's a question for you adolescents: when did it become cool to bash people who believe different than you? Aren't you really just playing the bully?