Moon's Mark Down (2016)

Re:Moon's Mark Down (2016) by jcalabro on Friday July 03, 2020 @08:23PM (#23728880)

I was surprised to see that this came from rcn.com, they used to be my ISP. Can someone give context here? Who is David Moon? What does he have to do with RCN?

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Re:Moon's Mark Down (2016) by gwern on Friday July 03, 2020 @10:34PM (#23729558)

Moon used to be famous among hackers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Moon ("One day a student came to Moon and said: “I understand how to make a better garbage collector. We must keep a reference count of the pointers to each cons.” Moon patiently told the student the following story: “One day a student came to Moon and said: ‘I understand how to make a better garbage collector...")

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Re:Moon's Mark Down (2016) by jcalabro on Friday July 03, 2020 @08:33PM (#23728941)

Oh it looks like you can set up a user page under their users subdomain.

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Re:Moon's Mark Down (2016) by loughnane on Friday July 03, 2020 @09:49PM (#23729324)

This was precisely my experience

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