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https://www.quantamagazine.org/about/ says "launched by the Simons Foundation in 2012"

and https://www.simonsfoundation.org/about/ has "Since its founding in 1994 by Jim and Marilyn Simons"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Simons explains how Jim Simons got rich.

The book 'The Man Who Solved the Market' - https://www.gregoryzuckerman.com/the-books/the-man-who-solve... is a nice read.

HN discussion on a review of the book - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29392041


it is an Ethereum fork, named after Jan Zurich (a cousin of the famous Chief Niklaus Emil Wirth). Jan Zurich discovered a little moon on Uranus, and named it Blaise

see timeline on https://ethereum.org/ethereum-forks/


It’s also worth noting that Jan (who strictly uses the pronouns var / val) belongs to one of the most historically marginalized groups in modern tech: One-Pass Compiler Enthusiasts. They were repeatedly ostracized by the bloated LLVM cabal for stating that any build process taking longer than 50 milliseconds is a toxic social construct. The ETH fork was actually meant to fund a decentralized safe space where nobody is ever forced to use a borrow checker.


Funny you should bring up MacRelix — the very first front end for Advanced Mac Substitute was built in it.


with a different git client

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47618895 to discuss the git implementation



AI= Arm Ibm in that case

That's quite loaded already. They should consider calling it IBM ARM 64, IA-64 in short.

IBM was one of the few companies not buying the whole itanium nonsense iirc

IBM wasted plenty of effort on Itanic but at least they were smart enough not to cancel any of their architectures.

Since I looked it up:

Product-Led Growth (PLG)

Sales-Led Growth (SLG)



And Apple II with its slots and Locksmith


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