Double-Checking Dawkins (2007)

[weinzierl]

https://blog.jgc.org/2007/12/double-checking-dawkins.html?m=1

[dang]

Related, though not much there:

Double-checking Dawkins - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6954947 - Dec 2013 (1 comment)

Double-checking Dawkins - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=85247 - Dec 2007 (1 comment)

[jacquesm]

Hah, I remember reading this when it first came out in ... 2007!

If you like hacks do check out the 'cansole', video out with two resistors.

[defrost]

Heh. Nice one - definite HN vibes here.

More specifically this is fact checking a statement from:

The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

a 1986 book by Richard Dawkins.

[xjay → defrost]

Related to The Blind Watchmaker: Richard Dawkins wasn't happy with Apple Writer, so he spent close to a year writing his own word processor [in assembly], called "Scrivener", which he then used to write that book.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DEe4QEuOSw&t=1074s

He said he would have written 20 books if he hadn't taken up computer programming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQp1QaW_onk

[neilv → xjay]

Like Knuth and TeX (and fonts, etc.).