Got a huge is that who I think it is when I saw HN homepage this morning. Author is a well-known legend in Atlanta tech scene, especially amongst Georgia Tech alum in their 30s and 40s. His stories and rants on Facebook are legendary
“this is the wiki of nick black (aka dank), located at 33°46′44.4"N, 84°23'2.4"W (33.779, 85.384) in the heart of midtown atlanta. dankwiki's rollin' wit' you, though I make no guarantees of its correctness, relevance, nor timeliness. track changes using the recent changes page. I've revived DANKBLOG, this wiki and grad school having not satisfied ye olde furor scribendi.
hack the planet! don't mistake my kindness for weakness.
i primarily write to force my own understanding, and remember things (a few entries are actually semi-authoritative). i'm just a disreputable Mariner on your way to the Wedding. if you derive use from this wiki, consider yourself lucky, and please get confirmation before relying on my writeups to perform surgery, design planes, determine whether a graph G is an Aanderaa–Rosenberg scorpion, or feed your pet rhinoceros. do not proceed if allergic to linux, postmodern literature, nuclear physics, or cartoonish supervillainy. “
I’ve had his grad-school project libtorque[2] (HotPar ’10), an event-handling and scheduling library, on my to-read list for years, but I can’t seem to figure out how it accomplishes the interesting things it does.
[1] https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses, https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/
1. enroll.
2. get tired of dorm life.
3. move to home park because it's likely all you can afford.
4. get broken into 5-10 times.
5. move away
Not one break in!
Figured no one thought we were worth it. Although we were two houses across the street from Kool Korner, so maybe that was the "nicer" part of Home Park?
I should have been more precise re: break-ins, meaning more car break-ins. No idea what the home rate was, but every other week there were 1-2 cars missing windows around Lynch.
The west & north sides of GT are unrecognizable to me now though -- condos and yuppie shops.