October 15, 2007 | The Old New Thing

The Old New Thing

Nicolas Bourbaki, perhaps the biggest inside joke in mathematics

Raymond ChenOctober 15, 2007Oct 15, 200710/15/07

If you've studied advanced mathematics, you've certainly read or at least heard about the books and papers of the great French mathematician Nicolas Bourbaki, whose works in the 1930's set out a rigorous formulation of modern mathematics. Except he never actually existed. The name was created as a front for a group of renegade French ...

Why aren't shortcuts as easy as unix links?

Raymond ChenOctober 15, 2007Oct 15, 200710/15/07

Commenter dingo asks, "Why are shortcuts so hard to manipulate? Why can't they be as easy as unix links?" Well, if you want something like unix links, then you can just create a hard link. Creating them is about the same difficulty (CreateHardLink vs link) and manipulating them is the same since you don't actually manipulate a hard link. You ...

The Old New Thing

October 15, 2007 | The Old New Thing

Nicolas Bourbaki, perhaps the biggest inside joke in mathematics

Why aren't shortcuts as easy as unix links?

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