Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]
I was at the talk, and it's strange this what people take from it. You should watch the whole thing and see what he built over years.<p>I was a bit disappointed that most of the questions ignored his talk about a very cool jukebox he built and focused on OS drama.<p>He built a jukebox with all hit songs he could find in it  1900-2000 and for prerecorded music, got a player piano and sheet music and midi and integrated the whole thing. Touch screens, voice activation and so on. Hardware and software and data hoarding project.<p>He said he has massive cabinets of CDs, all the music he ripped and tested audio encoders with his own ears.<p>Ken is 80, and still building cool side projects and scratching his own itch! That's the story.<p>Be like Ken by building something cool, not by using whatever OS.