Re:Apple and LaTeX
by Veen on Sunday July 02, 2017 @11:12AM
(#14682834)
"Dr Drang" is a pseudonym. He doesn't use his real name to blog, and goes to some effort to obscure it (for professional reasons).
Edit: I was wondering why Dr Drang, and found the answer here[0]
> When I started blogging, I thought I’d do more political posts, and it seemed like a good idea to keep my online and real life personas separated. I didn’t want potential clients Googling my real name and having all the hits come from my personal blog.
> I do have a Ph.D. in engineering, with an emphasis in stress and structural analysis.
> “Drang” is the German word for stress and is part of the name of a famous engineering textbook, Drang und Zwang, written by the father and son team of August and Ludwig Föppl. The father, August, also wrote an even more famous textbook, Vorlesungen über technische Mechanik, but “Dr. Vorlesungen” just didn’t have the right ring to it.
Edit: I was wondering why Dr Drang, and found the answer here[0]
> When I started blogging, I thought I’d do more political posts, and it seemed like a good idea to keep my online and real life personas separated. I didn’t want potential clients Googling my real name and having all the hits come from my personal blog.
> I do have a Ph.D. in engineering, with an emphasis in stress and structural analysis.
> “Drang” is the German word for stress and is part of the name of a famous engineering textbook, Drang und Zwang, written by the father and son team of August and Ludwig Föppl. The father, August, also wrote an even more famous textbook, Vorlesungen über technische Mechanik, but “Dr. Vorlesungen” just didn’t have the right ring to it.
[0]: https://512pixels.net/2012/06/writers-i-read-dr-drang/