Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died • Hacker News Board

Re: Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died

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Post by Androsynth » Sat, Oct 15, 2011, 9:55 PM UTC

chugger wrote: post #210

sid0 wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

let's not compare both. Ah yes, the cognitive dissonance of an Apple fanboy developer who knows that C is far more important than anything SJ ever did yet can't reconcile that with their belief that SJ was god. Shame on Hacker News's audience that the front page isn't filled up with Dennis stories right now.

I am one of the biggest dmr and ken fans in the world. dmr and ken are definitely the pioneers, they're like elvis and jerry lee lewis. sj is bob dylan (inspirational) larry page and sergey brin are milli vannili (one hit wonder copy cats) and bill g is linkin park (he just plain sucks)

horrible analogy and horrible fanboism

Re: Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died

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Post by salemh » Sun, Oct 16, 2011, 7:26 AM UTC

sid0 wrote: post #143

angrycoder wrote: post #118

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Both Jobs and Ritchie were important men. I don't know what you think you are going to accomplish here. Your posts are about neither of them, they are all about you.

I'm merely citing the fluff that has occupied Hacker News recently such as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3100278 . What sane, non-obsessed person gives a flying fuck what uniform someone wore and why they wore it?

Merging of tech, fashion / hiring the "best" for design, etc.

Branching out from engineering vs design (where so many say "I'm a coder, not a designer" and, making the point, that sometimes, you should invest (even by hiring), into "design."

I dunno, seems relevant to building applications for layman.

Re: Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died

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Post by 7h » Sun, Oct 16, 2011, 2:40 PM UTC

i'm from russia and very bad know english...

RIP

Re: Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died

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Post by ihateSJCS » Mon, Oct 17, 2011, 2:27 PM UTC

SoupIce wrote: post #123

HardyLeung wrote: post #75

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Let's not compare the two legends. They made their own marks in vastly different ways. Both magnificent. I love them both. RIP.

Lets compare HNs reaction over them two. Steve Jobs: Two days full frontpage of crying and "I remember him like this like that" and "wish I could have had the time to suck his penis" Dennis m Ritchie: One post, most comments discussing relation of news to Steve Jobs. Great going HN.

Lets compare HNs reaction over them two.

Steve Jobs: Two days full frontpage of crying and "I remember him like this like that" and "wish I could have had the time to suck his penis"

Dennis m Ritchie: One post, most comments discussing relation of news to Steve Jobs.

Great going HN.

Totally agree.