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Yes, somehow his this particular essay landed in my inbox middle of May, beautully insightful one and an emotional one. I for some reason saved it as I liked it so much. Did not know it had been written from ICU.

https://om.co/2026/05/26/the-copy-and-the-guru/#respond

What a great loss. Thank you for your writing and photography

And when I get confused, I watch TV. Television is never confusing. It's all so simple somehow.

One of the best Human-Cat interactions scenes about food in a movie is the opening 10 minutes from movie The Long Goodbye

His late seventies movies like Octagon, Lonewolf Mcquade, force of one and of course Delta Force are all cult classic action movies.

Talking about Quicksort, John Bentley’s deep dive in Quicksort is quite illuminating. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QvgYAQzg1z8

I once emailed Douglas Hofstadter with some of my own ideas after reading his book (GEB) and he actually responded with a long reply.

I have done similar style for tech news. Aggravating based on Tags. That way I can read tech news on micro topics. https://embit.ca/ Your feedback is appreciated.

This is great. The best article I have read on BWT and experimented was in Dr Dobbs Journal around 1996-97.

Another one you can check out is one I have made for myself and used by friends [1], although only tech news. It also uses more than 100 RSS feeds to aggregate the top 10 news every few hours. Also has tags that can be used to read topic related news.

[1] https://embit.ca

In my case, in fifties, I am still programming away. There is nothing else I can do.

If I remember correctly the Indian Railway Passenger Reservation System was built using DEC VAX/VMS file system

Apologies in advance as I may be saying contrary to the sentiments here against Wikipedia fund raising. I also get the same emails and the banners. I diligently donate what I can. I don’t know where my funds will go. But what I do know is that I use that website practically twenty times a day and get something of value.

In India, mutton is older goat not a sheep. So word mutton means older sheep or goat depending on which country one is taking about.

It is easy to underestimate how much Python as a language benefited from nympy, scipy, pandas and scikit-learn

Just came here to say Resr In Peace Kevin. You will always be remembered.

Yes this is correct. It’s perfectly possible to build purely static website by react and nextjs

I have been using same tech stack for last 10 years happily. LAMP. And can’t be happier. And I use it for everything I do

Equal credit goes to one and only Stan Getz

I would recommend Miles Davis’s Kind Of Blue as first listen of Coltrane , part of the legendary sextet.

I do something similar for my personal news reader. [1]. Originally I had done it so I can read my tech news quickly. Now few of my friends also have started using it.

[1] https://embit.ca

This news excites me and scares the crap out of me at the same time.

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

James Thurber

John B. on quick sort. Just awesome explanation

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QvgYAQzg1z8

This is bit dated but when in my university days I reas code of xterm

Well, he is in good company. Another famous tunnel digger was Seymour Cray.

https://boingboing.net/2006/08/10/seymour-cray-liked-t.html

I was one of very early subscribers of his NEC mailing list. Just found this article he had sent out and now on archive.org. It’s another prescient article which now seems obvious

https://perma.cc/9ESH-V2YE

This [1] is my attempt at tech news but with tag cloud. Feedback most welcome.

[1] https://embit.ca

Yes happy thanks giving HNers. This is the only place I visit multiple times a day and each visit is educational. Thanks

https://embit.ca is a tech news aggregator with unique tag cloud.