minutillo

*This person is a composite of several people who do exist

"...on the day it was designed. Of course, by the time construction was completed there had been 2 re-orgs and a pivot so now we're just making the best of things"

Possibly refers to this manual: http://www.panix.com/~rst/turing.pdf

For those not in the know, once upon a time a guy named Stewart Butterfield and some friends tried to make a game, called Game Neverending. Somehow they ended up making Flickr instead! Later, he tried again, this time to make a game called Glitch. Again, he failed, and somehow ended up with Slack. That's why Slack's 404 page is like this ("you found a Glitch!"). To further confuse things they sold the name Glitch off to Fog Creek Software who is now using it as the new name for Gomix, which is the new name for HyperDev.

One of these days that guy will actually succeed in making a game. Until then here's hoping his failures continue to be so successful.

Check your local public library and interlibrary loan system. You'll probably find a great selection, and you can't beat the price!

"c" was reality at a place I used to work. They had an old IBM mainframe and a huge tape archive going back to the 60s. There were several "silos" with tapes that were frequently needed arranged inside, where they could quickly be loaded into readers by robot arms. Less frequently needed tapes were organized outside the silos on shelves. The mainframe managed the tapes itself, but did need the help of a few humans whose entire job was to read printouts requesting tapes to be swapped in and out between the silos and the shelves and go fetch them for the mainframe.

I visited the RHIC at Brookhaven National Laboratory (they have tours during the summer - highly recommended if you're near Long Island!) and one of the scientists told me that she had never looked at the visualization of one of her collisions. I got the sense that they were more for PR than anything else.

No, that's stage 4.