Donald Knuth Reflects on 50 Years of ‘The Art of Computer Programming’

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18 points·bryanrasmussen··11 comments

Isn't this heavily "adapted" from this NYTimes article from last year??

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-comp...

Agreed. This is word-for-word stolen from the NYT. Worse, the article's by line credits "Denton Staff Contributor". This is a massive copyright violation.

Whoops! Indeed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18698651.

I was wondering why Knuth set aside an entire precious Sunday for the "Denton Daily". Big NYT profile makes more sense.

Googling a sentence from their "David and Victoria Beckham keen to present a unified front!" article reveals the same plagiarism—albeit not from the NYT that time—so we have banned the site.

Why ban the site but leave this clickbait intact? (Rather than change the URL)

Damn! I did not know this when I posted it. I did think it was a little weird though, that the Denton Daily would have it.

I've wanted to dive into this book for a long time. For anyone who's taken the dive, is it worth the time it takes to read it?

"He emailed an excerpt to [...]"

Has M. Knuth not stopped using email 40 years ago?

So the Denton Daily isn't about Denton, TX

With the utmost of respect for Knuth and his work... I sometimes joke that this book is the ultimate example of programmers being bad at estimating how long their work will take.

Think of Knuth as the Niagara Falls of "waterfall". In super slow-motion. The water has travelled about half of the distance down.

"Agile", he is not.

Stopping to create TeX was a world-class bout of yak-shaving. Like everything he's done, we're the better for it, but what a detour!

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