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Knuth's 'Earthshaking Announcement' due tomorrow

149 点作者 dermatthias将近 15 年前

30 条评论

jcl将近 15 年前
Using new features of TeX π, Knuth has inserted interrobangs along critical fault lines, and he intends to offset the entire West Coast, widening rivers and reflowing the Pacific; the Bay Area will be left flushed and right ragged, creating many widows and orphans. The only way to stem this bold, unjustified plot is to transfer a well-padded figure of $175,921,860,444.16 immediately to the Bank of San Serriffe.
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Amnon将近 15 年前
Unfortunately, it appears to be just a lecture called "Earthshaking Announcement". The previous one was called "All Questions Answered" and I'm sure he left some questions unanswered.
user24将近 15 年前
I really think this is going to be one of the most overblown things ever. I seriously doubt it's actually going to be interesting at all. Really. He's being sarcastic with the title of a lecture. Calm down fanboys.
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michael_dorfman将近 15 年前
I had it on my list to post a reminder of this today as well-- looks like you beat me to it.<p>I'm curious to see other's guesses here. My personal hunch is that he is going to declare TeX complete, and move the version number to Pi (as he had planned to do upon his death.)
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mmaunder将近 15 年前
He's announcing that he's retiring. He had some health issues in 2006 so I really hope it's not related to that. Of course his consciousness will be uploaded to a positronic brain so he'll be around for a while yet.
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fbu将近 15 年前
Back when it was first announced, everybody made jokes about the new TeX policy and every document made using TeX will have to be reviewed before publishing :)
ja27将近 15 年前
He's quitting Stanford to work for Facebook|Google|Twitter.
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RyanMcGreal将近 15 年前
TeX 4.0 will have Ribbons.
jackfoxy将近 15 年前
Tomorrow @ 5:30 PM PDT, to be more precise. <a href="http://tug.org/tug2010/program.html" rel="nofollow">http://tug.org/tug2010/program.html</a> Given how many people on HN are interested in this, I'm curious to see how fast, and in what manner, the announcement gets posted here. Perhaps someone tweets it directly from the conference and the tweet gets posted here. I'm hoping for a post here by 6:00 PM.
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mhd将近 15 年前
<p><pre><code> \blink{}</code></pre>
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fbu将近 15 年前
Maybe the numbering of TeX will now go up to 6 and something...
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xtho将近 15 年前
He converted to OpenOffice.
kloncks将近 15 年前
Does p = np or not?<p>That's what I hope we'll find out tomorrow. Too hopeful?
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mikecane将近 15 年前
Will TeX somehow tie into eBooks?
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lenbuster将近 15 年前
Any theories on what Knuth will announce?
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pistoriusp将近 15 年前
I've seen a bunch of companies/ people using this strategy lately. Making it appear like they're going to make a revolutionary statement that is going to change the world.<p>An "idea implemented." Unfortunately is rarely turns out to be something concrete - it's usually an idea with a significant buy in... But an idea that's a step in the right direction... A call to action...<p>Examples:<p>1) Cisco announced a really fast router that was going to "change the Internet forever." (<a href="http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/03/09/what-cisco-lacks-in-sex-appeal-it-makes-up-for-with-speed/" rel="nofollow">http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/03/09/what-cisco-lacks-in-s...</a>)<p>2) Bloombox (<a href="http://bloomenergy.com" rel="nofollow">http://bloomenergy.com</a>)<p>Of course, as others have pointed out maybe he's just playing the fool.
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jhaglund将近 15 年前
47 minutes past the scheduled 5:30 pm, pacific announcement time. Earth still stable.
brg将近 15 年前
I'm pretty sure the announcement will be release dates of Volumes 4a, 4b, and 4c of "The Art of Computer Programming."
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buro9将近 15 年前
Maybe he's created an earthquake algorithm?
faragon将近 15 年前
Well, if He's not the one demostrating P = NP or P != NP, some other will have to take the token. That's life. Anyway, Knuth is a great hacker, having my respect and admiration.
JoelMcCracken将近 15 年前
Do we know how long this has been up?<p>If it was something as significant as P{=,!=}NP, I really doubt he would have been able to keep this hidden for any length of time.
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zmmz将近 15 年前
The Art of Computer Programming will not get finished.
brfox将近 15 年前
This thread has too many one-line jokes like reddit.
jimfl将近 15 年前
TeX will be able to render moment tensor solutions, with a package called Beachball.
huherto将近 15 年前
I think he will retire. That is the last speaking engagement in the page.
jpablo将近 15 年前
Maybe he will unleash the missing volumes of TAoCP
fierarul将近 15 年前
What's the purpose of this besides having us speculate? Just have a post tomorrow with whatever Knuth announced and it's enough to have a good discussion.
Tichy将近 15 年前
This better be good
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NonEUCitizen将近 15 年前
title should say "Knuth's..." not "Kuth's..."
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taloft将近 15 年前
He will be introducing the $99 holographic PC.