the saddest moment

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thesaddestmoment.pdf

Watching a presentation on Byzantine fault tolerance is similar to watch
-
ing a foreign film from a depressing nation that used to be controlled by the
Soviets—the only difference is that computers and networks are constantly
failing instead of young Kapruskin being unable to reunite with the girl he fell
in love with while he was working in a coal mine beneath an orphanage that
was atop a prison that was inside the abstract concept of World War II.

literally the most hyperbolic thing ive ever read

slamjamsk8r wrote:literally the most hyperbolic thing ive ever read

he has a way with words

pretty much all of Mickens' articles are like this lol

i noticed