I’m shocked by this.
Thank you for saving me from OOP, Joe. (via Elixir)
May your hypothetical soul have as much uptime as your systems did.
Joe Armstrong has died
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#82Back in 2015, I somehow ended up as part of a panel discussion at the end of a conference. The panel was going to include Joe Armstrong, Don Syme (inventor of F#), Tony Hoare (!), and myself (a nobody compared to any of them). During the conference, I wanted to meet each of the other folks on the panel, and ended up in a somewhat lengthy conversation with Joe Armstrong -- mostly about Erlang, but at some point the pa…
Do you have recording of that session?
Seems to be this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hJ9UK08rZA
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#83https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Armstrong_(programmer)
Thanks, I had no idea who this is.
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#84Just re-watched his Strangeloop talk: “The mess we’re in”. Still so spot on. He will be dearly missed. https://youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4
Indeed. So much substance in such a short time.
- clarity vs efficuency on abstraction
- the need to unwind (not sure if it is the right word) entropy
- naming and comments
- etc
Things were not so obvious to me when just started my career but are so important to software engineer's day to day
RIP Joe. Your ideas will live with us, forever
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#85too much to ask to include what he’s known for in the title?
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Many of his videos are worth a watch:
https://www.youtube.com/user/gar1t/videos
The 'MongoDB is web scale' one is pretty funny and was widely watched shared in the day.
I wish he'd make some more videos.
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#87Absolutely devastating.
Joe was so full of life, consumed by curiosity. I had the pleasure of escorting him around Chicago during an Erlang conference several years ago, and I still have in my Reminders app to look up a water painter named Zorn that he recommended highly as we tried to find our way to some building or another.
He’s also, I believe, my only LinkedIn contact. I opened a new account a couple of years ago when Basho was winding down, but I strongly dislike the service and didn’t do anything with it...but when Joe found me and added me, I had to approve that, obviously.
Godspeed Joe. I’m sure if the interface between this world and the next is in need of debugging, you’re the man for the job.
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#88rip joe. sorry that your last tweet was in reply to my trolling.
i just looked up this interaction. you seemed well intended enough :)
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#89Re: Joe Armstrong has died
#90Absolutely devastating. Joe was so full of life, consumed by curiosity. I had the pleasure of escorting him around Chicago during an Erlang conference several years ago, and I still have in my Reminders app to look up a water painter named Zorn that he recommended highly as we tried to find our way to some building or another. He’s also, I believe, my only LinkedIn contact. I opened a new account a couple of years ag…
Now is a good time to look up Anders Zorn. He was perhaps the most esteemed Swedish painter during the late 1800s and early 1900s.