Quote time (often approximate) once more
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sniffnoyFrom CS:
"The history of character encodings has been very sad."
"I've been here long enough I have my first name as my username. We knew this wouldn't work forever; we would eventually have a first name clash. Knowing this department, what do you think it was? [someone takes a guess] It was Laci, we had 3 of them."
"A directory used to be an ordinary file. You could edit it with an ordinary text editor, which often meant that the world ended."
From math:
"So this is a vector space. What do we want to make it into?" [Intended answer: A normed linear space]
Someone responds, "A sandwich."
"The history of character encodings has been very sad."
"I've been here long enough I have my first name as my username. We knew this wouldn't work forever; we would eventually have a first name clash. Knowing this department, what do you think it was? [someone takes a guess] It was Laci, we had 3 of them."
"A directory used to be an ordinary file. You could edit it with an ordinary text editor, which often meant that the world ended."
From math:
"So this is a vector space. What do we want to make it into?" [Intended answer: A normed linear space]
Someone responds, "A sandwich."
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Date: 2006-01-06 07:34 pm (UTC)Oh Stuart Kurtz, always using the same stories. "Lossey" is probably actually "Laci", which is short for Laszlo, which is the first name of professor Babai, who teaches discrete math, algorithms and honors combinatorics, and who won the Quantrell award last year.
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Date: 2006-01-07 12:39 am (UTC)