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Ah man, one of those right-libertarian/anarcho-capitalist types. Don't worry, most of these people change their belief system once they take an elementary economics class. I know I did :)

Will be a huge pain in the ass. Go's compiler uses Plan 9, and WebAssembly uses LLVM.

Actually no. It's only referred to that because people are stupid. It contains neither an actual disk nor a drive motor to spin a disk.

HDD = HARD DISK drive

SSD = SOLID STATE drive

No. It's only referred to that because people are stupid. It contains neither an actual disk nor a drive motor to spin a disk.

If SSD = Solid state disk, then HDD = Hard disk disk.

Or nobody will ever have to work again.

2) It's probably not a disk. I'd bet it's an SSD, or something. I doubt he'd use an HDD considering how relatively cheap it is now... and considering how loaded he probably is.

Oh, whoops! I mistyped. Didn't mean to mention LLVM.

That ARM64 stuff is pretty messed up though.

Oh, that's news to me. I guess that makes their claim a bit weaker.

Darwin, LLVM, Clang.

Also: WebKit, Objective-C. (debatable since the GPL forced their hand)

Probably to differentiate themselves from pure software companies like Mozilla, in which case that claim would almost certainly be false.

> Apple, the first major computer company to make Open Source development a key part of its software strategy

It's actually pretty factual. They open sourced Darwin/WebKit/LLVM/Clang, and legitimized BSD and Unix as a consumer product via OS X... in 2001/2005/2005. The only "big" company that I can think of that made a move that big was Mozilla, which arguably doesn't even compare to a company as huge as Apple. Plus Mozilla open sourced itself out of pure desparation from pressure via Internet Explorer (which, I might remind you, was one of the worst proprietary pieces of shit to scorch this earth, by none other than Microsoft).

It's only been a recent thing where companies like Google/Microsoft have been embracing open source. Companies like Gitlab/Docker weren't even concievable back then.

Actions speak louder than words.

The system that elects billionaires is the same as the system that elects our government.

As someone who grew up in the Bay Area, I thank you.

I went to Homestead High School (and have friends that went to Gunn/Paly) and the experiences I've witnessed have been similar.

One of my friends has parents that worked at Adobe. During his junior year, he was taking AP Calculus BC, AP Physics C E&M, AP Physics C Mechanics and AP Computer Science. He got straight A's both semesters, and got a 5 on all of the AP tests. I went over to his house during the summer and found that there was a huge hole on the bottom of the door in his room. He told me it was because his mom was so angry at him for something school related (something trivial like getting only a 2100 on the SAT) that she kicked the door in.

Another one of my friends' dad works at Intel. My friend ended up getting accepted into UC Davis (but rejected from UCLA/Berkeley/MIT), and, while I was in the room, his dad told him that UC Davis is for failures.

This problem has little to do with the schools themselves. It has to do with the parents, and the reason why people come to live here in the Silicon Valley. People don't move here to live a great life, settle down and have kids. They come here to advance their career, and ultimately, to make money. Here in the valley, if you don't have marketable skills, you are trash. And the kids who grow up here know that all too well.

But LLVM already has a lot of good backends (emscripten, arm, ppc, x86, amd64). Why reinvent the wheel when you could just make Go a LLVM frontend and be done with it?

What about LLVM? Go's support of cross compilation is laughable in comparison to the different LLVM backends. And you can just use the -arch armv7 and -arch arm64 shortcuts instead of those target triples.

Also, FWIW, the reason why Go can even be cross compiled in the first place is because it has platform specific C and assembly code from cgo's runtime so it can support the different architectures/platforms.

Of course, if Go was just an LLVM frontend instead of using gcc then it wouldn't even need the platform specific C code... And it would support a shitton more platforms like asm.js. But I guess Google just hates Apple that much?

How old are you? I'm 21 and feel the same way, although it was the tail end of middle school, all of high school, and freshman year of college. So around 2008-2013.

And here on the internet.

Ah, yeah true. I could kind of see it going the way of wine.

If you excluded cannabis from your comment, I'd agree with you 100%. Cannabis can be both, but for me, and a lot of people I know, regular use just promotes bad habits and lifestyle choices. But to each his/her own.

(btw I support legalization of cannabis and other psychs)

Oh yeah... duh. For some reason I thought you and the parent comment were the same person. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I probably would have never started smoking pot if there wasn't that edgy/cool/illegal vibe to it. Once pot is legal, the stigma around recreational use will probably turn into something like drinking cough syrup for the DXM.

Isn't that the whole point? If legalization goes through and the crime is only localized to the U.S., then Mexico's supreme court reduced crime in Mexico.

In Lua, you can set the allocation function (for memory limits) and I think you can set time limits by using coroutines.

That's exactly why we have the free software movement.

He can't just quit like that. He has a reputation to uphold.

It's crazy to think how much further back we'd be without him

Ironically this article doesn't render in MobileSafari for me.