The Gift of Pi

Too Long; Didn't Read

Many years ago, back in the late 90’s, I worked on a large <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/software" target="_blank">software</a> project with some friends, including <a href="https://medium.com/@bencollinssussman" data-anchor-type="2" data-user-id="b6d15ab13eed" data-action-value="b6d15ab13eed" data-action="show-user-card" data-action-type="hover" target="_blank">Ben Collins-Sussman</a>, Lęfty Wałkowiak, and <a href="https://medium.com/@kfogel" data-anchor-type="2" data-user-id="eb501abbf6d4" data-action-value="eb501abbf6d4" data-action="show-user-card" data-action-type="hover" target="_blank">Karl Fogel</a>. The software was for A Very Big Bank, and part of the project required writing out a custom CD-ROM for each of their big corporate customers every month. The CD was basically a website that included a whole bunch of transactions, along with detailed information about each, and served as a kind of local, static supplement to the fancy webapp that we built for them.