you think you know how to protest and get dramatic "total 180 turn-around" results? wait until you see what i can do with a silly sense of humor and a high karma rating on ycombinator news *cracks knuckles*
On Wednesday, March 17, 2021 at 9:00:41 AM UTC-5 mortdeus wrote: > somebody else wrote.* > > Sigh Its time to go to bed, so i can get up in the morning and implement > my masterplan if by then the powers that be in this forum haven't bent to > my will and restored the goverse to it's rightful balance > > On Wednesday, March 17, 2021 at 8:57:53 AM UTC-5 mortdeus wrote: > >> Im just saying you can literally justify a fork of the language where the >> only change is to remove this ad from the website code, and everything else >> is just a mirror and the readme is "the pogo programming language, >> literally just Go but with the dumb political shit taken out" >> >> And that fork would get 10k likes on github guaranteed. >> >> And yes that is a threat and a theory I so want to test so that I end up >> getting another article written about me in theregister for literally doing >> nothing but reposting code somebody else where everybody can actually see >> it in literally not even that clever of a way. >> >> https://www.theregister.com/2013/03/06/github_ancient_c_repository/ >> >> >> On Wednesday, March 17, 2021 at 8:51:32 AM UTC-5 mortdeus wrote: >> >>> You know what, I just thought of the best analogy to put this argument >>> to rest. >>> >>> About 10 years ago, when go v1.0 first came out, I like many of the >>> familiar faces in this thread, absolutely fell in love with the language. >>> It was literally like a goldilocks "this one is juuuuuust right" moment for >>> me after being totally disgruntled with all the trade offs you had to >>> suffer with when trying to deal with when trying to learn python, C#, C++, >>> and C. (at the time i had only been programming for about a year) >>> >>> Since I was a noob hacker, I couldn't contribute to the code in any >>> useful way other than to propose a few bad ideas that eventually did end up >>> getting implemented years down the road. (especially the idea im about to >>> talk about) >>> >>> One of my bad ideas was that I wanted to create a badge that people >>> could post on their websites they used Go to build, as a means to let the >>> world know that they support the language. The general idea being that the >>> more people who see cool websites being built with Go, the more people >>> would adopt the language. >>> >>> So I tried to submit a merge request where the front page had these >>> three buttons at the bottom of the page. >>> [image: 2 - SwkPj - white gopher.png][image: 3 - 5w0lx - blue >>> gopher.png][image: 1 - 47bgL.png] >>> >>> And Russ Cox shot me down (for good reason) because while he understood >>> my argument that they should be right there out in front so that everybody >>> knows to actually use them, his argument was better because he pointed out >>> that the main reason why Go rocks is because the front page is minimalistic >>> and as bare bones as possible. He pointed out that other popular language's >>> front pages were absolutely cluttered with a bunch of non essential and >>> somewhat irrelevant information that is bettered suited to say a wiki, >>> rather than being forced upon everybody's eyeballs every time they >>> navigated to go's landing page. >>> >>> Of course he is correct and honestly he taught me one of the most >>> important lessons that day because despite the fact that my intentions were >>> good and my "theory" was ultimately sound, that doesn't mean the decision >>> is inline with what we were calling "idiomatic go" in terms of what is >>> considered quality engineering and what is considered unnecessary bloat. >>> >>> The point is that this political banner, (that I just discovered also >>> plagues the pkg.go.dev site) is literally a million times worse, under >>> those very same principles, Russ Cox pointed out than my proposal. Because >>> why my proposal advocated for something I know everybody here can get >>> behind. This ad literally alienates people who don't necessarily agree with >>> the BLM or the equal justice narrative. It creates a morale conflict for >>> many people and all I want is for us to uphold the founding principles this >>> language was founded upon. Because while I was ultimately crushed being >>> rejected, I understood that it was important that I was. >>> >>> And we all need to understand this is literally just as important. The >>> issue might be the most important thing in the world in your view, that >>> doesn't mean Go should be forced to suffer because everybody in silicon >>> valley is indoctrinated into the revolution. >>> >>> If we can't promote Go for political self promotion on the front page, >>> why the hell can we promote something political that doesn't even have >>> anything to do with Go? >>> >>> Are we now a team of hypocrites who no longer have their eyes on the >>> ball? Because frankly, were finally in the world series and the last thing >>> we want to do is strike out when all we have to do is hit a single to get >>> the winning run that wins the game. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, March 17, 2021 at 8:12:15 AM UTC-5 peterGo wrote: >>> >>>> On Wednesday, March 17, 2021 at 6:10:09 AM UTC-4 >>>> axel.wa...@googlemail.com wrote: >>>> >>>>> As such, nothing has really changed since the topic last came up >>>>> <https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/YzN4LkMHs7k/m/W0mrUwTqBgAJ> >>>>> . >>>>> >>>>> >>>> I started the original thread titled "political fundraising on >>>> golang.org!". >>>> https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/YzN4LkMHs7k/ >>>> >>>> I read Russ Cox's polemic. >>>> https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/YzN4LkMHs7k/m/XFtRziMfBgAJ >>>> >>>> Every time I see the banner it reminds me of Martin Luther's >>>> Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences. >>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-five_Theses >>>> >>>> Peter >>>> >>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. 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