Re: Three Cheers for Samuel!
El 10/6/20 a les 1:49, Joshua Branson ha escrit: > And Joan was just a college student at that time. > How did you get to be so brilliant so young? I was not so young :). I was 32 at that time and had about 10 years of experience working as programmer. Just started my degree too late!
Re: Three Cheers for Samuel!
Thanks for the calming words gentlemen! I am realizing that I am probably a little more right brained (I like writing and speaking a lot) and I am not as talented in my left brain (doing math and programming and such). It is possible that the path forward for me that will provide the most success and joy may not be programming or have anything to do with computers but something else. I wish developing for the Hurd was a high priority for me, but I think I need to focus more on building a relationship with my savior (you know who he is. The name starts with a "J" and ends in "us"). I will continue to think fond thoughts about this software project and all of you, no matter where life takes us. Also, I did recently start a peertube channel that is all things related to GNU. I am essentially showing my "guix workflow". It would be really interesting to see you guys develop, though I think richard has some videos out there on the interwebs somewhere. https://video.hardlimit.com/accounts/joshua_branson/video-channels "Thou wilt keep him at perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee." Hoping you are well, -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus
Re: Three Cheers for Samuel!
Hi Joshua, On 10/6/20 9:49 am, Joshua Branson wrote: > And I know Damien Zammit is fantastic, because he is working on some > ridiculously amazing audio work for the Hurd. And holy Alaskan > Asparagus tips! How does he have time to be a kernel developer and make > such beautiful music! Can you please tell me how to be more like you? It's a long process to get to where I want to be and I take small steps at a time. But please don't exaggerate too much, we are only human. Hurd audio part has not even begun for me, I'm still stuck in disk drivers. I haven't made much of my own music to date, but have helped others record theirs. Damien
Re: Three Cheers for Samuel!
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 02:07:32AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > One thing is: starting exploring stuff early. I started programming > around when I was 10. And then spend a *hell* lot of time exploring > stuff, experimenting with things, doing whatever teaches anything. > (heck, I even read a 10-book series on the X protocol, and that did end > up being useful in the end). > > One thing worth thinking: you may be amazed by people that came before > you. You will quickly see younger people be amazed by *you*, simply > because comparatively you will have spent a lot more time doing stuff > than they have. Everything is relative :) I completely agree. While I appreciate the compliments, I'm worried about the excessive aspect of it. Calm down, we're not gods, we're just decent developers. -- Richard Braun
Re: Three Cheers for Samuel!
Joshua Branson, le mar. 09 juin 2020 19:49:26 -0400, a ecrit: > How did you get to be so brilliant so young? One thing is: starting exploring stuff early. I started programming around when I was 10. And then spend a *hell* lot of time exploring stuff, experimenting with things, doing whatever teaches anything. (heck, I even read a 10-book series on the X protocol, and that did end up being useful in the end). One thing worth thinking: you may be amazed by people that came before you. You will quickly see younger people be amazed by *you*, simply because comparatively you will have spent a lot more time doing stuff than they have. Everything is relative :) Samuel
Re: Three Cheers for Samuel!
Samuel Thibault writes: > Hello, > > I don't know what initially triggered the round of cheers, anyway thank > you all :) Basically because you are a near programming god on earth. And if Richard Braun says you are a near global expert in computer concurrency, then you absolutely must be! You've got your hand in nearly everything about operating systems. It's one thing to an expert in one area of operating systems projects. It's quite another to be developing and maintaining on different levels of operating system abstractions! Because Richard Braun is one of the most dedicated and intelligent developers I know of. I find myself reading about his X15 project all the time (and pissing myself with excitement when I re-read about it). Everytime he posts a new blog post, I get chills down my spine reading about his updates! And I re-read the blog posts, again. Then I find myself struggling to keep up with his fiery intense intellect. And I know that Joan Lledo is a fabulous contributer, because Richard Braun said that Joan's Google summer of code for the lwip was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen! And Joan was just a college student at that time. How did you get to be so brilliant so young? And I know Damien Zammit is fantastic, because he is working on some ridiculously amazing audio work for the Hurd. And holy Alaskan Asparagus tips! How does he have time to be a kernel developer and make such beautiful music! Can you please tell me how to be more like you? And there are other people in the Hurd community, who are truly fantastic! Thank you for your hard work! Would any of you care to virtually meet with me and talk about why the Hurd is so awesome? We could post the video somewhere as a type of marketing. I'm sure that Guix would love to market it. We could meet at meet.jit.si/somerandomurl password: some password...I could record said video and post it somewhere. > > One thing I'm not good at is showing news of what is happening, the > "quarter of the hurd" news were quite useful I think to show people what > happens. It's a matter of taking the time to collect news items, and > publish it periodically on the news part of the wiki (and on the list so > people know about it). Any volunteer? :) For anyone wanting to write a quoth here's how to write a quoth (quarterly news update about the Hurd) https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/community/weblogs/ArneBab/how-i-write-a-qoth.html I actually haven't been able to get ikiwiki to render locally...So I haven't wanted to send in half-working changes as patches...I'm using guix system. I do have debian installed. I suppose that I could edit via Debian as well. https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/contributing/web_pages.html#index3h1 #+BEGIN_SRC sh joshua@dobby ~/prog/gnu/hurd/web$ guix package -I perl perl-yaml-syck 1.32out /gnu/store/27vsh727by43zyh0vvf1asqxgnmmcpvc-perl-yaml-syck-1.32 perl-search-xapian 1.2.25.2out /gnu/store/4r87b02nqrrhrgpycp82q8lgyq3fmkyb-perl-search-xapian-1.2.25.2 perl5.30.2 out /gnu/store/8zvc5mvk0xm3ygrxsgpyy5ilxb5rzjry-perl-5.30.2 joshua@dobby ~/prog/gnu/hurd/web$ guix package -I ikiwiki ikiwiki 3.20190228 out /gnu/store/74vfkcipyvkc5bqf2rxny76d04ynmmqq-ikiwiki-3.20190228 joshua@dobby ~/prog/gnu/hurd/web$ guix package -I | grep tex texinfo 6.7 out /gnu/store/ihj2a1ji2q8wbrkrfjl5km6gc7d9g42j-texinfo-6.7 ./render_locally ymlfront: failed to use YAML::Syck #+END_SRC -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus
Re: Three Cheers for Samuel!
Hello, I don't know what initially triggered the round of cheers, anyway thank you all :) One thing I'm not good at is showing news of what is happening, the "quarter of the hurd" news were quite useful I think to show people what happens. It's a matter of taking the time to collect news items, and publish it periodically on the news part of the wiki (and on the list so people know about it). Any volunteer? :) Samuel
Re: Three Cheers for Samuel!
On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 08:29:14AM -0400, Joshua Branson wrote: > I just want to thank you for being so diligent at maintaining and > continuing to develop the GNU/Hurd. You are one of my heroes, and I > love how dedicated you are to the project! > > Wishing you a good day, Likewise. -- Richard Braun
Re: Three Cheers for Samuel!
+1 (actually it's much more than 1) Às 13:29 de 07/06/20, Joshua Branson escreveu: Hey Samuel! I just want to thank you for being so diligent at maintaining and continuing to develop the GNU/Hurd. You are one of my heroes, and I love how dedicated you are to the project! Wishing you a good day, Joshua -- Best regards / Melhores cumprimentos, Miguel Figueiredo
Re: Three Cheers for Samuel!
On 7/6/20 10:29 pm, Joshua Branson wrote: > Hey Samuel! > > I just want to thank you for being so diligent at maintaining and > continuing to develop the GNU/Hurd. You are one of my heroes, and I > love how dedicated you are to the project! > > Wishing you a good day, > > Joshua > Yes, (although I am relatively new to the project), thank you Samuel!
Re: Three Cheers for Samuel!
Yes — thank you very much! Joan Lledó writes: > +1. Thanks Samuel! > > > El 7 de juny de 2020 14:29:14 CEST, Joshua Branson ha > escrit: >>Hey Samuel! >> >>I just want to thank you for being so diligent at maintaining and >>continuing to develop the GNU/Hurd. You are one of my heroes, and I >>love how dedicated you are to the project! >> >>Wishing you a good day, >> >>Joshua -- Unpolitisch sein heißt politisch sein ohne es zu merken
Re: Three Cheers for Samuel!
+1. Thanks Samuel! El 7 de juny de 2020 14:29:14 CEST, Joshua Branson ha escrit: >Hey Samuel! > >I just want to thank you for being so diligent at maintaining and >continuing to develop the GNU/Hurd. You are one of my heroes, and I >love how dedicated you are to the project! > >Wishing you a good day, > >Joshua -- Enviat des del meu dispositiu Android amb el K-9 Mail. Disculpeu la brevetat.
Three Cheers for Samuel!
Hey Samuel! I just want to thank you for being so diligent at maintaining and continuing to develop the GNU/Hurd. You are one of my heroes, and I love how dedicated you are to the project! Wishing you a good day, Joshua
