I’m at the Nobel Ceremony. If Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie hadn’t written “The C Programming Language” so so so well, which I read overnight to get the job that saved me from being homeless at 17, I’m not even sure I’d be alive, let alone here. Here’s to good writing.https://twitter.com/anildash/status/939137973240696832 …
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Well, that was a lot of pomp and circumstance. I have to say, the science remains as exciting to me today as my earliest memories of discovering tye endeavor. Goosebumps from the LIGO folks getting the prize on.pic.twitter.com/p1QCe32rq6
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So the whole Nobel banquet thing is a sit-down dinner—great food and amazing live music and all, but the LIGO people are sitting down with the King Of Sweden, no fair. I want to go fan-girl.
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There is the dance afterwards. Congratulate them from us.
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