<story><title>Essays from the funniest man in Microsoft Research</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2013/12/24/10484402.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chetanahuja</author><text>My personal favorite passage (no comment on HN&amp;#x27;s favorite obsessions &lt;i&gt;at all&lt;/i&gt;)&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;GUIs are useful. Spell-checkers are useful. I’m glad that people are working on new kinds of bouncing icons because they believe that humanity has solved cancer and homelessness and now lives in a consequence-free world of immersive sprites. That’s exciting, and I wish that I could join those people in the 27th century.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Essays from the funniest man in Microsoft Research</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2013/12/24/10484402.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>seiji</author><text>You &lt;i&gt;must&lt;/i&gt; read his The Slow Winter: &lt;a href=&quot;http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/theslowwinter.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;research.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;people&amp;#x2F;mickens&amp;#x2F;theslowwi...&lt;/a&gt; — It deserves to be made into a movie.</text></comment>