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Joe Armstrong has died
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#52That is so sad, he was in his late 60s and it seemed like he had a lot of life left in him, talking about how software can get better and having a great (and sometimes snarky) outlook on the profession. Highly recommend his thesis (2003) and a few of his great interviews/presentations for anyone who isn’t familiar with Joe, it captures a lot of what he thought about and pushed for in his professional life. http://erl…
> That is so sad, he seemed like he had a lot of life left in him talking about how software can get better and having a great (and sometimes snarky) outlook on the profession.
I'm in actual shock, he was tweeting about pretty much that (also brexit and playing with his phone's voice recognition) just 2 weeks ago… He wasn't even 70…
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#53–Hello Mike –Hello Joe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKfKtXYLG78&t=2m7s
I rewatched this so many times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRbY3TMUcgQ
For context: This is the unofficial sequal to the official Erlang movie. Updated for people from the future. Definitely worth a watch.
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#54One of my favorite quotes from Joe:
“Make it work, then make it beautiful, then if you really, really have to, make it fast. 90% of the time, if you make it beautiful, it will already be fast. So really, just make it beautiful!”
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
For those of us who haven't seen it before, would you please explain what this means? I assume it is some sort of sign of mourning?
It’s done any time someone “with significance to the community” dies. I’m not sure when it started but it’s been a thing for many years. Feels extremely appropriate to me, and honestly, it was the first thing I looked for after I saw a tweet about this. RIP, Joe :(
RIP Joe indeed. He will be sorely missed as a pillar of the BEAM community.
Not to diverge too far, but does anyone know who the first black bar was?
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#56That is so sad, he was in his late 60s and it seemed like he had a lot of life left in him, talking about how software can get better and having a great (and sometimes snarky) outlook on the profession. Highly recommend his thesis (2003) and a few of his great interviews/presentations for anyone who isn’t familiar with Joe, it captures a lot of what he thought about and pushed for in his professional life. http://erl…
I came in thinking.. god it better not be him.. it better not be him.. so sad to hear this.. I loved his book on erlang. Just an amazing mind
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#57Very sad. One of the few people who did not compromise on quality.
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#58I met Joe in 2012 when I spoke at the Erlang Conf in SF. he is the reason I discovered functional programming and the whole concept of message passing (actor model) in distributed systems. Quite a legend and contributor to the world of computer science. RIP joe.
I also met him at a conference in '16. He gave a talk but mostly wanted to shoot the breeze in the hallway with fellow hackers. He lamented scheduling gripes with his PM, being a slave to Jira, and some new things he was playing with. Very approachable and humble.
He asked a few of us hanging around what talks we were thinking of attending and we agreed to check out something about concurrency in some modernish platform. The speaker was working on issues with handling failures, message passing, memory management, etc, but then realized Joe was in the back and pointed out it had all been solved many years ago by that guy over there. Everyone laughed and gave Joe the acknowledgement.
I don't feel like we've finished learning from and building on his work. RIP.
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#59Rest In Peace, Joe. I’m surprised and ashamed that I have not heard about him but thanks to the HN community for posting links to his thesis and talks. Wonderfully approachable and a great guy.
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#60I was following him on Twitter, and it was always amazing that a genius like him took the time to respond to people on Twitter with insightful comments. Showed what a great human being he was. RIP Joe.
same. i had some interaction with him on twitter, years ago, and somehow he wound up following me(!). RIP Joe.