Interview with Steve Klabnik
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Interview with Steve Klabnik
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#2Just discovered Steve on Twitter yesterday so this is a coincidentally well timed article. What initially drew me to his Twitter account were the obvious references to Deleuze and Guatarri - specifically his reference to the concept of the body without organs (BwO) in his twitter handle. Glad to see a like-minded programmer coming to many of the same conclusions I've been reaching recently.
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#3“Nobody asked the jackhammer dude to work on an open jackhammer project on Saturdays, that would be totally absurd.”
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#4Thank you, hannahurr! What a very worthwhile interview; the tech world greatly lacks such things.
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#5Steve appeared on Ghostalk (a podcast which I co-host): http://talk.ghost.io/17/
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#6I do find myself in many of the same communities as Steve, and in much the same starting position whereas I tend to get bored and leave things he puts in the effort to do something for the community.
I jointed Rust to write an ML project and contribute, I gave a talk on the philosophy of programming, I think I was speaking one conference behind him at one point too. And yesterday he opens metaphysics.io and I programmingphilosophically.com ...
It's interesting to see what could be with a little effort. And yet I still dilly dally and potter around.
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#7"The free-software ethos and the founders of the open-source movement are mega-racist libertarian people, and so it’s always really weird to me that a bunch of Leftists are so into open source; it explicitly manifests capitalist social relations."
Mega-racist? What? Lost me a bit there.
It's weird to me that he speaks about the free software movement as if it were dead...as if the only motivator to write open source software is to get a job with an artificially low salary.
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#89 times out of 10 when I see some "controversial" (for HN) economic/political post that I totally agree with, it was posted by user steveklabnik. That aside, I have to admit I still prefer Go over Rust.
In any case, very interesting interview.
I'd love to see more like this even if the subject was someone on the opposite end of the political/economic spectrum from me, I found it much more interesting than the typical padded puff-pieces "What Hacker XYZ uses to hack with" (spoiler: probably a MacBook, you bunch of Apple-sellouts!).
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#9Steve is a really great guy. He's super friendly and incredibly accessible. I've emailed or tweeted him a handful of times and he's always been very helpful. I don't agree with everything he says but he has turned me onto a lot of issues I didn't know anything about especially feminism.
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#10"The free-software ethos and the founders of the open-source movement are mega-racist libertarian people, and so it’s always really weird to me that a bunch of Leftists are so into open source; it explicitly manifests capitalist social relations." Mega-racist? What? Lost me a bit there. It's weird to me that he speaks about the free software movement as if it were dead...as if the only motivator to write open source…
> Mega-racist? What? Lost me a bit there.
I assume that was mostly a thinly-veiled jab at ESR; who is a racist and generally a giant asshat, IMO; but it probably isn't worded in the best way when taken out of context of the paragraph preceding it since it sounds like the speaker is conflating ESR with the Free software people (who I also tend to disagree with on a great many things but for different reasons). At the very least, I wouldn't associate libertarianism with the high-level FSF types.