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From: Tyler Adams <coppero1237@gmail.com>
To: Vincenzo Nicosia <katolaz@freaknet.org>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] "What UNIX Cost Us"
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 12:46:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEuQd1CKw0fEgD0f2PJ-Y2FOYcsXTn2iBNwocXdcBRxEHumyZQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200119102937.3s2hwl3ziupa7ese@unixfarts.net>

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His example of the USB driver was pretty silly. The unix code even *looked*
cleaner and straightforward compared to the convoluted windows/mac messes,
but he's mad because he had to figure out a *filepath*. What!?


 Tyler


On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 12:37 PM Vincenzo Nicosia <katolaz@freaknet.org>
wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 11:27:39AM -0800, Rich Morin wrote:
> > FWIW, I found this talk to be quite amusing and interesting.
> >
> > "What UNIX Cost Us" - Benno Rice (LCA 2020)
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-IWMbJXoLM
> >
>
> ...which is along the same lines of the talk the same guy gave about
> systemd and why everybody should like it. The message is simple: we
> just want to run our shiny MacBooks and we don't understand Unix
> anyway, so we'd better get rid of it and move on.
>
> A flawed analysis that obviously leads to flawed conclusions.
>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-19 10:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-18 19:27 Rich Morin
2020-01-18 20:34 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-01-19  9:33   ` Kevin Bowling
2020-01-19 20:00   ` Kathryn Spiers
2020-01-20 17:40     ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-01-19 10:29 ` Vincenzo Nicosia
2020-01-19 10:46   ` Tyler Adams [this message]
2020-01-19 16:33     ` Warner Losh
2020-01-19 18:16       ` Kevin Bowling
2020-01-19 19:45       ` Adam Thornton

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