ESR wrote an entry in his blog about Pratchett's hacking exploits as related at his Guest of Honor speech at Penguicon. (Blogspot's permanent links are broken; it's the entry for 5 May.) The Reader's Digest version: Pratchett did a LOT of hacking, both hardware and software, on his ZX-81. Unfortunately for him (but, probably, fortunately for us all), he didn't think that meant he had what it took to do science or computing for a living, so he wrote press releases for a living until his writing took off.
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Terry Pratchett is a hacker!
ESR wrote an entry in his blog about Pratchett's hacking exploits as related at his Guest of Honor speech at Penguicon. (Blogspot's permanent links are broken; it's the entry for 5 May.) The Reader's Digest version: Pratchett did a LOT of hacking, both hardware and software, on his ZX-81. Unfortunately for him (but, probably, fortunately for us all), he didn't think that meant he had what it took to do science or computing for a living, so he wrote press releases for a living until his writing took off.
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Someone should print this poster
In case you can't read it, it says: VINDICATION: When the loudest critic of your policies achieves his greatest success because of them. (hat…
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Took him long enough...
So, President Obama finally released his birth certificate. Now we can put the matter to rest. Personally, I've always thought that whether he was…
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Fun fact for the day
1337% of pi is 42.
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