nicolasmiller

"Everything that happens in the world happens on Twitter..."

Really?

It's not just you. Read "The Recognitions" by Gaddis.

And HN goes all Onion on us... I can only hope this is some brilliant troll's idea of incisive satire.

Well, actually...

You cannot be serious.

Ditto. It conflicted annoyingly with what I already had playing. I managed to take in about four seconds of her vocal before realizing that it was unspeakably bland.

Facebook gives me a feeling quite like the one I feel I would have observing off-white eggshell paint dry or maybe munching on a packing peanut.

I'm well aware of the history. I was ironically posing the question in a probably slightly mean-spirited attempt to poke fun at him for not having written any notable software. I suppose he deserves credit for the philosophical contributions. The whole initials thing is ultimately pretty stupid. Maybe I was trying to get at why it's even become a convention. Why there is so much ego in the field in general.

"A figure of little consequence in [his] own time..." I thought of Raymond himself. Who decided that this guy deserved to be one of the lucky few with canonical hacker initials?