Ian, This individual is either trolling us or suffering some sort of psychological crisis that warrants intervention by a mental health professional. Either way I think we've all had quite enough of their rants and their behavior warrants banning from this mailing list.
On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 10:33 AM mortdeus <mortd...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/d92091e6-eb8d-4769-9642-05e3fb271a4en%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/d92091e6-eb8d-4769-9642-05e3fb271a4en%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Kurtis Rader Caretaker of the exceptional canines Junior and Hank -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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