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Walker's Hacker's Diet contains an excellent essay on the relationship between engineering and management [1] which I'd like to incorporate somewhere in Wikipedia. It relates to W. Edwards Deming's ideas about quality. Uncle Ed 11:29, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
Presumably "Fourmilab" is a pun on "Fermilab" Gbeauregard ( talk) 07:12, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
The current version of the page states 'It could also be pronounced "for me lab", i.e. a personal laboratory.' Indeed, it could, but it never occurred to me when I named the site, which is totally a reference to " The Hacker and the Ants" and a pun on "Fermilab". It was later pointed out to me that it could also be taken as a pun on "mi-four" or (generously interpreted) "half-baked" in French; that also eluded me when I named the site. John Walker (fourmilab.ch) ( talk) 23:57, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Scouring the internet, I can't for the life of me figure out how to email the guy. His chapelle-like ghostliness means that I can't let him know about mistakes he's made in his writing - specifically at http://www.fourmilab.ch/random/ . Fresheneesz ( talk) 09:00, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
His authorship of the Hacker's Diet could be included in his bio if there are secondary sources about it. - Reagle ( talk) 16:59, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
John Walker apparently died today, 2024-02-02. [2]
Expect better sources shortly. John Nagle ( talk) 01:14, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
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Walker's Hacker's Diet contains an excellent essay on the relationship between engineering and management [1] which I'd like to incorporate somewhere in Wikipedia. It relates to W. Edwards Deming's ideas about quality. Uncle Ed 11:29, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
Presumably "Fourmilab" is a pun on "Fermilab" Gbeauregard ( talk) 07:12, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
The current version of the page states 'It could also be pronounced "for me lab", i.e. a personal laboratory.' Indeed, it could, but it never occurred to me when I named the site, which is totally a reference to " The Hacker and the Ants" and a pun on "Fermilab". It was later pointed out to me that it could also be taken as a pun on "mi-four" or (generously interpreted) "half-baked" in French; that also eluded me when I named the site. John Walker (fourmilab.ch) ( talk) 23:57, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Scouring the internet, I can't for the life of me figure out how to email the guy. His chapelle-like ghostliness means that I can't let him know about mistakes he's made in his writing - specifically at http://www.fourmilab.ch/random/ . Fresheneesz ( talk) 09:00, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
His authorship of the Hacker's Diet could be included in his bio if there are secondary sources about it. - Reagle ( talk) 16:59, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
John Walker apparently died today, 2024-02-02. [2]
Expect better sources shortly. John Nagle ( talk) 01:14, 3 February 2024 (UTC)