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Sunday, 14th of October 2018, 0:58:50 UTC
3:21:00
beach
Good morning everyone!
6:45:04
jackdaniel
beach: I've read thi piece by Rob Pike from 2000, instantly remainded my of yours remarks about operating systems: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/utah2000.pdf
6:52:37
beach
Hello jackdaniel. Reading...
6:55:45
beach
Many truths in there.
6:55:48
jackdaniel
reminded* hum, now I had a sip of my coffee my English improved a little (hopefully)
6:56:08
beach
ACTION didn't even notice.
6:56:36
jackdaniel
planing hard to notice bugs is my speciality (not only in software development ;)
6:58:46
jackdaniel
but that had to be problem with the keyboard missing my #\t
6:58:50
beach
One bug that remains to be fixed is to use articles with singular nouns in English. :)
6:59:13
beach
Another one is that you use "what" as a relative pronoun when you mean "that" or "which".
6:59:44
jackdaniel
now you look for them they are easy to see, aren't they? ;p
7:01:25
beach
I totally agree with these slides (at least up to page 13, which is as far as I have read so far).
7:01:57
beach
I am in a unique position that 1. I am about to retire, so I don't need a promotion, and couldn't get one even if I tried.
7:02:10
beach
2. I don't have to chase grants, so I can work on what I want.
7:02:33
beach
So I am doing what can no longer be done in most academic or industrial situations.
7:02:46
beach
Namely research on system software.
7:02:48
slyrus1
retire? say it isn't so!
7:03:05
slyrus1
there's still lots of work to be done!
7:03:18
jackdaniel
these slides are even more interesting when you take into account, that he was one of people who were behind UNIX creation
7:03:36
jackdaniel
these slides are also a mini-pitch for plan9
7:03:46
beach
slyrus1: By "retire" I man still doing the same work but getting paid less. So I'll delay it as long as possible.
7:04:19
slyrus1
Ok,that sounds reasonable.
7:11:38
beach
jackdaniel: Thanks for the link to the slides. Very, very interesting indeed.
7:11:51
beach
... and totally on target.
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