jwzAug 17, 2025
We have an anime event tonight sooooo https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/01/hypertext-emerges-from-his-well-to-shame-the-tech-industry/
Hypertext emerges from his well to shame the tech industry.

I was introducing a friend to Serial Experiments Lain and when we got to the episode where the Knights of the Eastern Calculus are doing an infodump on MAJIC-12, Vannevar Bush, John Lilly and Ted Nelson, I made a comment about Nelson and my friend said, "Wait, these people are real??" So then I got to tell the story about the time I met him. He came to Netscape to, basically, yell at us for ...

Show threadjwzAug 17, 2025
The existence of The Knights of the Eastern Calculus (obviously "λ") implies the existence of the Pages of the Western Arithmetic (obviously "cat sed tr").
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I had a thought, maybe I should add "Knight Emeritus of the Eastern Calculus" to my profile blurb. But then I read it and it cannot be improved. There is nothing to add and nothing to take away.
Aug 17, 2025 at 7:09amWeb
Show threadjwzAug 17, 2025
"Oh you went to a VC boot camp? Explain your favorite useless way of converting recursion to iteration by trading stack for heap but dressing it up like math."
Show threadjwzAug 17, 2025
In multidimensional dis space I like to think that this is something of a maximum on axes "cold" and "obscure".
Show threadDamonHDAug 17, 2025

@jwz Or "make me re-invent something live that already has a debugged and efficient implementation in $LANGUAGE standard library".

Yes, that one happened to me at a bank that turned out to have a lower credit rating than me, and so I insisted on weekly payment for the first time ever...

Show threadG1itchbitAug 17, 2025
@jwz Kid: Mom, can we use the stack?
Mom: We have a stack at home.
The stack at home: int stack[50]