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jgrahamc
2 days ago
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Tony Hoare has died
Imagine being a world-famous computer scientist and dying and one of the top threads in a discussion of your life is juvenile crap about how your name sounds like "whore".
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fuzzylightbulb
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Imagine being an adult human but not being able to extract a tiny chuckle from such a silly thing.
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jgrahamc
2 days ago
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Well, I do have a rather special last name which makes me susceptible.
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sfn42
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OJFord
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GP is well known, you really needn't guess if you're that fascinated.
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mghackerlady
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Chill out, I doubt he would've minded and humorous anecdotes are great ways to grieve
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