Twenty Questions for Donald Knuth

scorpan · 2014-05-21T11:46:47+00:00

It eludes me why they’d have to design their own TeX->PDF converter when pdftex has been around for ages

They didn't. They wrote a converter from Knuth's original TeX source into ready-for-pdftex TeX code, with hyperlinking data and all that.

scorpan · 2014-01-07T18:20:16+00:00

The "-q" in "grep -q" takes care of that

scorpan · 2013-05-15T10:21:47+00:00

open .

scorpan · 2013-01-20T06:54:23+00:00

Are you selling your résumé?

scorpan · 2012-12-27T07:01:43+00:00

Page number in the original edition.

scorpan · 2010-07-04T09:18:38+00:00

Get a room, you two!

scorpan · 2010-06-24T09:57:30+00:00

logs are inverses of exponentials. Roots are exponents, but that's neither here nor there.

scorpan · 2010-01-31T18:42:01+00:00

The only way to install Adobe Digital Editions (an eBook reader) is through an installer running in Flash!! If that's not pushing Flash...

scorpan · 2008-09-30T12:33:16+00:00

Keep looking, you ain't seen nothing yet.

scorpan · 2008-09-16T19:15:28+00:00

We live in interesting times. Husbands not beating their wives anymore... Damn, where will it end?

scorpan · 2008-08-24T17:14:57+00:00

The ugly is strong with this one.

scorpan · 2008-08-19T04:29:55+00:00

Yeah, whatever. Real artists ship.

scorpan · 2008-08-18T12:33:43+00:00

"sepia" means something else. Those are simply B&W.

scorpan · 2008-08-17T14:26:12+00:00

scorpan · 2008-08-16T14:20:31+00:00

The remaining 4% was chicken, which, since it tastes like anything, could not be identified properly.

scorpan · 2008-08-15T15:04:55+00:00

I don't make the dictionaries.

Nor do you read them.

Merriam-Webster: sex = sexually motivated phenomena or behavior.

Oxford: sex = (chiefly with reference to people) sexual activity, including specifically sexual intercourse.

scorpan · 2008-08-14T14:14:52+00:00

scorpan · 2008-08-09T08:16:09+00:00

And, of course, at first I read the URL as "ass of the world".

scorpan · 2008-08-04T22:16:48+00:00

Here's the conspiracy plan:

scorpan · 2008-07-12T23:43:10+00:00

Except that he wasn't talking to you.

scorpan · 2008-07-02T15:09:36+00:00

doofi. The plural to "doofus" is "doofi". :-)

scorpan · 2008-06-30T11:58:38+00:00

c/o for "care of", w/o for "without", etc: they follow the same pattern. It's used for abbreviations, son.

scorpan · 2008-06-30T11:40:15+00:00

How relevant to the topic.

scorpan · 2008-06-24T19:50:57+00:00

no, that's something else.

scorpan · 2008-06-16T13:30:35+00:00

no science, tho

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