Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything (1985)(asc.ohio-state.edu)

341 points by ent101 2 years ago | 136 comments

Excerpt from "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" where Feynman recounts recovering from burnout by playing with physics, starting with a wobbling plate.

Konrad Zuse (1994)(xn--plankalkl-x9a.de)

72 points by tmalsburg2 2 years ago | 41 comments

Leon Trotsky was an MI6 agent since 1918, American intelligence documents reveal(sovinform.net)

22 points by wahnfrieden 3 years ago | 1 comments

Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me(boston.conman.org)

526 points by classichasclass 1 year ago | 392 comments

A Boston Diaries blog post complaining about the Thinkbot AI web crawler, which ignores robots.txt and asks to be blocked by IP across 74 addresses from 41 network blocks.

Does anyone remember websites?(tttthis.com)

31 points by lr0 1 year ago | 37 comments

A Letter from Dijkstra on APL (1982)(jsoftware.com)

54 points by tosh 5 months ago | 52 comments