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    Why HN was slow and how Rtm fixed it

    (ycombinator.com)
    257 points pg | 19 comments | 19 Jan 11 18:41 UTC | HN request time: 1.045s | source | bottom
    1. taylorbuley ◴[19 Jan 11 19:40 UTC] No.2120951[source]▶
    I feel silly asking, but who or what is 'rtm'?
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    2. kirubakaran ◴[19 Jan 11 19:45 UTC] No.2120972[source]▶
    pg's friend. YC cofounder.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris

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    3. dmuino ◴[19 Jan 11 19:46 UTC] No.2120975[source]▶
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris
    4. dauphin ◴[19 Jan 11 19:46 UTC] No.2120977[source]▶
    Book worm, nerd. Think Comic Book Guy, but healthier and smarter. Totally a bad-ass.
    5. bear ◴[19 Jan 11 19:47 UTC] No.2120984[source]▶
    "Robert Morris, the other founder of Viaweb, whose username is Rtm"

    http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/paulgraham/bbnexcerpts.txt

    6. ◴[19 Jan 11 19:47 UTC] No.2120987[source]▶
    7. ezalor ◴[19 Jan 11 19:49 UTC] No.2120993[source]▶
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris
    8. ◴[19 Jan 11 19:49 UTC] No.2120995[source]▶
    9. dauphin ◴[19 Jan 11 19:56 UTC] No.2121013[source]▶
    1: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Robert_Tappan...

    2: same acronym as RTFM, but polite.

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    10. kujawa ◴[19 Jan 11 20:40 UTC] No.2121193[source]▶
    Some punk skript kiddie who broke the internet in 1988.
    replies(1): >>2121276 #
    11. steveklabnik ◴[19 Jan 11 21:06 UTC] No.2121276[source]▶
    I hear he crashed 1507 systems in one day.
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    12. taylorbuley ◴[19 Jan 11 22:26 UTC] No.2121520[source]▶
    Thanks for not being this guy: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2121511
    13. nkassis ◴[19 Jan 11 23:36 UTC] No.2121773[source]▶
    First guy to completely crash the internet ;p
    14. cschep ◴[19 Jan 11 23:42 UTC] No.2121794{3}[source]▶
    Yo, this is RTM!
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    15. jason_slack ◴[19 Jan 11 23:45 UTC] No.2121803{3}[source]▶
    Zero Cool....
    16. alanfalcon ◴[20 Jan 11 01:37 UTC] No.2122163{4}[source]▶
    Well that's great. There goes MIT.
    17. mcantor ◴[20 Jan 11 04:23 UTC] No.2122634[source]▶
    Someone with a Wikipedia page where the only thing in the "See also" section is "List of convicted computer criminals."

    Diagnosis: Badass.

    18. ananthrk ◴[20 Jan 11 07:06 UTC] No.2122953[source]▶
    http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=rtm

    Most recently, one of the creators of Arc (along with pg), the language used to create/run HN.

    19. deno ◴[20 Jan 11 08:50 UTC] No.2123110[source]▶
    Read The Friendly Manual. How much more polite can you be?