[HN Gopher] The Rise and Fall of John Donovan
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       The Rise and Fall of John Donovan
        
       Author : indigodaddy
       Score  : 46 points
       Date   : 2022-11-10 15:07 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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       | sn41 wrote:
       | just recently, I was reminiscing with some students that John
       | Donovan's "Systems Programming" was the best and most readable
       | "whole picture" text I have read on computing - and despite being
       | 50 years old, is still insightful. I did not know that the person
       | behind it had a dark past.
        
         | api wrote:
         | I've had a run-in with this individual quite a while ago. Let
         | me just say this. I'd virtually guarantee that he didn't write
         | a word of that book. He had other people do it and took credit.
        
           | no_wizard wrote:
           | I'm curious if you can expand why you say that?
        
       | irsagent wrote:
       | It's wondrous to know that MIT professors conduct extracurricular
       | activities outside their profession. *Joke
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       | TLDR; John Donovan a MIT professor who is successful in the
       | technology consulting sector, later in life after having 5 kids,
       | begins to stage that such kids are trying to kill him for their
       | inheritance. Charged for filling a false police report, after
       | staging an assassination, and even to this day attempts to claim
       | that his family is trying to steal his fortune.
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       | https://archive.ph/kqOTs
        
       | jobs_throwaway wrote:
       | paywall bypass link:
       | https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.townandcountrymag....
        
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