On the Turing Completeness of MS PowerPoint [pdf]
This is literally the twentieth (!!) time in less than two months that this talk/paper has been submitted to Hacker News. The entire concept of this kind of website (Hacker News / reddit / etc.) really needs some major innovation to deal with this variability of response to content combined with repetition of material over time due to the rotation of readers (which eventually leads people to move to new communities of people with a different seed base of "stuff already seen"; a problem I call "the cohort problem" and have given talks about at times).<p>(There is also something weird going on where Algolia claims this specific post appeared 19 hours ago while Hacker News itself claims it appeared only 3 hours ago. What's up with that?)<p>As mentioned in another comment, I will argue the video is a <i>much</i> better way to experience this, due to a combination of the humor of the presenter and being able to watch it actually function. (After seeing it on Hacker News when it was posted six or seven weeks ago, I showed this video to the first day of a class I am teaching this quarter on the nature of programming languages.)<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14016364" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14016364</a>