There is a reason why Steve Jobs spent all the day, yelling at you stubborn #&@#s for not getting why Bob Dylan is an essential component to why Apple is now the most valuable company in the world.
If what I am saying sounds crazy, just know you thought my ideas were the dopest ideas in SV when he crammed everything I just said ^ into "Think Different" and had the cult of personality thing going for him, so you would all just listen and do. On Wednesday, March 17, 2021 at 12:28:28 PM UTC-5 mortdeus wrote: > I literally don't want the banner because I don't like the way it looks. > It's really like an ocd thing for me. And you all need to understand, that > is extremely important. Way more important than your political concerns. > Because like I said, a tool like this is honestly the only effective way to > implement the change you all claim to be advocates for. That is why it > needs to remain unmolested. > > On Wednesday, March 17, 2021 at 12:26:19 PM UTC-5 mortdeus wrote: > >> No Go is literally a 1000x bigger achievement than the Mona Lisa, because >> somehow we managed to get a bunch of people to come together and somehow >> create a miracle of engineering. >> >> In a perfect world, where the market also adopts the most efficient >> technological solutions. >> >> Plan 9 should have been the operating system that ruled the Earth and >> became essentially what Linux is today. The OS that runs the world. >> >> And if that did actually happen, we'd honestly be a dramatically >> different technological landscape. Essentially the "cloud" would have been >> done 20 years earlier and it wouldn't be owned by big tech corporations. >> Every device you use would be connected with every device everybody else >> uses. A lot of ugly unix hacks like docker, filecoin, dropbox, hell even >> facebook, twitter etc wouldn't actually exist like they do today if we >> simply just kept letting Rob Pike and Ken Thompson lead the way to our >> utopian computation destiny. >> >> The reason why I say Go is a miracle, is because some how they managed to >> take most of the truly revolutionary ideas that made plan 9 superior to >> Unix in every way, and basically give unix a huge buff that makes about 75% >> of the serious grievances we suffer from being stuck in a "HELP WE CANT GET >> THE WORLD TO MOVE ON FROM UNIX" dilemma. >> >> Rob has a really important paper talking about this where the reason why >> plan 9 failed is because it wasn't a "big" enough improvement over Unix, >> because its not like Ford introducing the car to replace the horse. It's >> literally like trying to convince the world to replace their cheap $1500 >> reused sedan for a Tesla model 3 when the only thing 99% of people care >> about is whether they can get to work everyday (without breaking the bank.) >> >> The point is that plan 9 is literally the tesla roadster, but because >> everybody is pretty used to their Ford Model T, they don't change to the >> obviously optimal "technological progression" that paves the way to even >> greater innovations like who knows jetson esque flying cars. >> >> Go is a miracle because somehow it is an actually "beautiful" Unix hack >> in the sense that the mad scientists here have somehow managed to bring all >> the tesla perks to the model T you already own, and not only have we saved >> the world from climate chain, but it literally was free of cost. >> >> Its not the greatest metaphor, but my point is that if I had to choose >> between burning the Mona Lisa or cp -r * all the goroots in the world, and >> I only considered the merit of which work of art is the greater testament >> to the potential of humanity (and why the aliens should ultimately retain >> faith in us and spare us despite all the horrors they would witness if they >> decided to touched down now); obviously I would burn the bitch. >> >> And I don't say that lightly because I view Davinci as literally the role >> model every engineer should aspire to become a poor imitation of. But still >> his magnus opus doesn't even come close to how much more beautiful Go is in >> comparison. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, March 17, 2021 at 12:04:19 PM UTC-5 Carla Pfaff wrote: >> >>> It's not an uncommon practice for teams that run a public website to >>> raise awareness for a good cause, usually by supporting fundraising for a >>> social nonprofit charitable organization. Some choose a children's cancer >>> charity or the Wikimedia foundation, this is what the Go team chose. This >>> does not mean that other issues in the world are not important. >>> >>> The Go project has never been a sterile place, it always had a personal >>> touch from its creators, see for example the cute gopher drawings. It's >>> also not a science centric community (btw, science is political too, always >>> has been) nor is the Go website the Mona Lisa. >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. 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