I left Geeknet aka all the other names Rob has typed already nearly exactly a year ago now, and had stopped really posting on Slashdot prior to that but the work, creation and launching of Slashdot remains one of the best things that has ever happened to me. Rob and I went to the same middle school, high school, college and had the joy of working together for well over a decade; I've been very lucky to have worked with him and the other friends we started with.
I wasn't around for these but, as a member lost in the masses of astronomical UIDs, let me say we'll miss both of you guys as well. Slashdot gets a little less personal but I hope this site is remains permanent and always here showing the world what you created.
Don't feel bad about the high UID, many of us that have been here since the beginning didn't sign up for an account right away. Heck if it hadn't been for John Katz (and more to the point the ability to block his "articles") I might still be posting as AC.
Holy Carp, well reminded. It's been years since I've read any [url=http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/29/technology/afghan-e-mail-seen-as-too-geek-to-be-true.html?src=pm]Katz vomit[/url]. I almost - almost - feel nostalgic for his deluded ramblings.
I've been a long-term reader and like everyone else, am sad to read about Rob's departure./. was required reading early on in the.com boom days and the rise of Linux. If you weren't reading/., well, you were pretty much out of it. It's now 2011 and I'm still a loyal reader. That says alot with all the abundant distractions on the net.
Rob's biggest contribution by far is the community he and others created here. I mostly lurk given that I'm by far nowhere near the level of expert you encounter here so o
Blocking Jon Katz accounts for more than half of all the customization I've ever done here. It might have been my finest tick-box moment ever. Thus Spake Zarathustra poured into the sound-track of my life as I executed the triumphant mouse click.
Later on, somewhere else, I stumbled over a piece by Katz on Border Collies, maybe a book excerpt, that was actually not half bad. These days, it's just too easy not to give a guy a fair chance. Can't say I miss the adolescent boarding-house memes. I was never
Some of us also registered 2-3 times before settling on an account. I still wonder if I could ever recover my 5 digit account. Not even sure what email I used now.
To the systems programmer, users and applications serve only to provide a
test load.
Hemos Says: "So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish" (Score:5, Interesting)
I left Geeknet aka all the other names Rob has typed already nearly exactly a year ago now, and had stopped really posting on Slashdot prior to that but the work, creation and launching of Slashdot remains one of the best things that has ever happened to me. Rob and I went to the same middle school, high school, college and had the joy of working together for well over a decade; I've been very lucky to have worked with him and the other friends we started with.
Rob and I became friends not actually because
I Was a Victim of a Series of Accidents ... (Score:2)
We've had some good wedding times [slashdot.org] and some burnination times [slashdot.org]
I wasn't around for these but, as a member lost in the masses of astronomical UIDs, let me say we'll miss both of you guys as well. Slashdot gets a little less personal but I hope this site is remains permanent and always here showing the world what you created.
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When the UID's started to go over 500k, I remember telling myself I could have had a 3 digit UID if I'd have just signed up and not lurked. :-D
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I've been a long-term reader and like everyone else, am sad to read about Rob's departure. /. was required reading early on in the .com boom days and the rise of Linux. If you weren't reading /., well, you were pretty much out of it. It's now 2011 and I'm still a loyal reader. That says alot with all the abundant distractions on the net.
Rob's biggest contribution by far is the community he and others created here. I mostly lurk given that I'm by far nowhere near the level of expert you encounter here so o
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Blocking Jon Katz accounts for more than half of all the customization I've ever done here. It might have been my finest tick-box moment ever. Thus Spake Zarathustra poured into the sound-track of my life as I executed the triumphant mouse click.
Later on, somewhere else, I stumbled over a piece by Katz on Border Collies, maybe a book excerpt, that was actually not half bad. These days, it's just too easy not to give a guy a fair chance. Can't say I miss the adolescent boarding-house memes. I was never
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Some of us also registered 2-3 times before settling on an account. I still wonder if I could ever recover my 5 digit account. Not even sure what email I used now.