has anyone ever written a book where the acknowledgments page is like “i acknowledge nobody but myself. nobody helped me with this book. it sprang fully-formed from my own head like bright-eyed athena”
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There’s this: scsh.net/docu/html/man.
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incredible
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he hasn't been active for years but this account seems like the real thing
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My colleagues continue to rip off my own work and publish it as their own amazon.com/Stay-Alive-Sch
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wow wait is this serious and not a bit???
this strikes me as plausible. actually how old school CS guys are
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Oh it’s totally a bit. Olin is a very warm guy but also a great teller of tall tales.
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Cf the acknowledgments in his dissertation, which are incredibly humble and warm: ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/p
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