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timdierks | 1 year ago

That's me! Thanks for pulling up the quote from long ago:

> "With his obvious technical skill, and his "cheat early and often" attitude, Tim could have a promising career as an AI programmer in the computer games industry. :)"

Instead took a path of security, authoring the TLS RFC and principal engineer in Google security. Thanks for the flashback.

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teekert|1 year ago

You pulled a Kobayashi Maru when you got the chance. I bow to thee.

tomrod|1 year ago

This makes me happy to see.

shthed|1 year ago

Can you share the source to Nostradamus?

le-mark|1 year ago

Or a write up on the algorithm used? How did knowledge of the prngs of the impact the impl?

spacebacon|1 year ago

I had to checkout your Git after this awesome reply. Gotta love Hacker News.

I had a cool vision for “tag play” … I visualize mini RFID records on a turn table that tell Roku what to play.

romanows|1 year ago

DJs have timecoded vinyl records that do something like this, even allowing the DJ to scratch the mp3 that is being played.

reactordev|1 year ago

So what you’re saying is, if you can’t beat em, join em? /s

I’m actually a bit relieved they have you on the team. Considering what they (Google) know about us all.