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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] alright, this should be interesting
Date: Tue,  5 Oct 2004 19:25:38 -0600
From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
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>> slashdot interviews rob pike (only the questions part):
> 
> I don't agree with you, Andrey.
> 
> How much did the Slashdot pay to Rob for this interview?
> I suppose they didn't.   If so, why Rob has to reply to those not
> so interesting questions?   It's something like public threat to him...
> 

interviews on slashdot are pre-arranged.  i believe Robin Miller, who,
besides slashdot interviews, handles newsforge.com has already sent a
message to Rob Pike and they have agreed on an email interview.  the
only way to request an interview is to submit the request as a
slashdot story.  Rob can prove me wrong if indeed nobody has contacted
him for an interview and this whole thing is a load of, well, crap (or
dingo's kidneys) :)

slashdot is applying the moderation scheme to find out what everybody
else thinks are the best questions.  the 10 moderated highest by the
slashdot users themselves get to be sent to the interviewee.  it's a
kind of an 'open source' approach to interviewing which mostly works
the sane part of the slashdot populace prevails in most cases and you
end up with reasonable questions.  if a really good question gets in
late, there's no chance for it to be picked up unfortunately.

andrey

ps: there are some interesting questions there whose answers i'd like
to know myself.  most of the people were cheated by the 'co-creator'
tag though, or had little factual knowledge of plan9.  things like
"plan 9 is a microkernel combination of unix and multics' ideas",
"when are you going to make plan 9 distributed?", or "plan 9 was
written in Alef" can definitely be observed first-hand :)