yeah, I was on a rant that day, it actually made it into the plan 9 fortunes

'You want to make your way in the CS field? Simple. Calculate rough time of amnesia (hell, 10 years is plenty, probably 10 months is plenty), go to the dusty archives, dig out something fun, and go for it. It's worked for many people, and it can work for you. - Ron Minnich

I'm sorry to say, it still seems to work that way.

I just saw a talk from red hat about putting linux in flash to use as a boot loader, for example, and the authors somehow ignored the last 25 years and acted like they invented it. Amazing. Turns out 10 minutes is enough.

On Sun, Jun 16, 2024 at 6:05 PM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:

On Sun, Jun 16, 2024 at 08:48:16PM -0400, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> > From: Clem Cole
>
> > Frankly my major complaint with much of the modern world is that when we
> > ignore the past
>
> "There are two kinds of fools. One says, 'This is old, therefore it is good';
> the other says, 'This is new, therefore it is better.'" -- Dean Inge, quoted
> by John Brunner in "The Shockwave Rider".

"Want to be a hero in the computer science world? Find a good paper from
5 or 10 years ago and rewrite it. Everyone will think you're a genius"

-- Ron Minnich

I paraphrased, Ron, feel free to correct me.
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