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Given I have never heard of this person, the joke isn’t very funny. These internet April fools jokes are so tiring.

by influx 4y ago

PaulDavisThe1st 4y ago
One of the most important people in the later development of X Window, also worked on other 2D drawing APIs. [ EDIT: I was wrong about X Window. Take back all the karma! ]
- raphlinus 4y ago
  I was only tangentially involved in X, but was active in a lot of related projects (some Gtk infrastructure, Ghostscript, the seeds of what became Inkscape), and now work on GPU-accelerated font rendering. I also played a central role in getting Rust adopted at Google, and now one of my passions is advancing the Rust GUI space, as I feel like that has enormous potential.
  - eliasmacpherson 4y ago
    That too, I had no idea, am so impressed. I use your music-synthesizer-for-android code nearly as much as FM7. :-)
  - PaulDavisThe1st 4y ago
    Whoa. Now why did I think that. Sorry for the mis-attribution. But also, you really should move to C++, for all the reasons you listed!
  - nasretdinov 4y ago
    Honestly there were so many small signs that you work at Google, e.g. the fact that you used Bazel and Blaze interchangeably or referring to Carbon as a C++ replacement, although I guess both things are kind of public knowledge anyway...
andrepd 4y ago
I've found it quite funny actually.
peterfirefly 4y ago
If you haven't heard of him, the joke's on you. Maybe. In any case, his work is worth looking into. He has done interesting work in font creation, font building primitives, rasterization, 2D drawing, and resistant social network graphs (which turns out to be more or less equivalent to the Old Sk00l Google Juice system). He was recently instrumental in performing a wonderful experiment in editor building -- wonderful because of the way it failed. It was something that one would think would work, but somehow it didn't. It's always interesting when intelligent and well-informed people are wrong about something. Perhaps there was too much Design and too little boring boiler plate. https://levien.com/ https://levien.com/ https://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html https://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html https://levien.com/phd/phd.html https://levien.com/phd/phd.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodipodi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodipodi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advogato https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advogato https://raphlinus.github.io/xi/2020/06/27/xi-retrospective.html https://raphlinus.github.io/xi/2020/06/27/xi-retrospective.h...
- amelius 4y ago
  > He was recently instrumental in performing a wonderful experiment in editor building -- wonderful because of the way it failed. They clearly should have migrated to C++ sooner :)
  - peterfirefly 4y ago
    Yes, C++ does have fast JSON parsers.
- hu3 4y ago
  Sorry but I didn't know the author either. And with due respect, none of his work is directly aplicable in the majority of software development roles I have been involved with, directly and indirectly. And that's fine. There's nothing to be ashamed of nor it is something to shame someone for. The world is large and specialized. If we were speaking about Linus or Bill Gates then perhaps it would be a surprise for some tech savy person to not know them.
ndesaulniers 4y ago
Tell us you write C++ without telling us you write C++. I write C++; the post was hilarious. You're just being salty.

Given I have never heard of this person, the joke isn’t very funny. These internet April fools jokes are so tiring.

by influx 4y ago

Given I have never heard of this person, the joke isn’t very funny. These internet April fools jokes are so tiring.

One of the most important people in the later development of X Window, also worked on other 2D drawing APIs. [ EDIT: I was wrong about X Window. Take back all the karma! ]

raphlinus 4y ago
I was only tangentially involved in X, but was active in a lot of related projects (some Gtk infrastructure, Ghostscript, the seeds of what became Inkscape), and now work on GPU-accelerated font rendering. I also played a central role in getting Rust adopted at Google, and now one of my passions is advancing the Rust GUI space, as I feel like that has enormous potential.
- eliasmacpherson 4y ago
  That too, I had no idea, am so impressed. I use your music-synthesizer-for-android code nearly as much as FM7. :-)
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y ago
  Whoa. Now why did I think that. Sorry for the mis-attribution. But also, you really should move to C++, for all the reasons you listed!
- nasretdinov 4y ago
  Honestly there were so many small signs that you work at Google, e.g. the fact that you used Bazel and Blaze interchangeably or referring to Carbon as a C++ replacement, although I guess both things are kind of public knowledge anyway...

andrepd 4y ago

I've found it quite funny actually.

peterfirefly 4y ago

If you haven't heard of him, the joke's on you. Maybe. In any case, his work is worth looking into. He has done interesting work in font creation, font building primitives, rasterization, 2D drawing, and resistant social network graphs (which turns out to be more or less equivalent to the Old Sk00l Google Juice system). He was recently instrumental in performing a wonderful experiment in editor building -- wonderful because of the way it failed. It was something that one would think would work, but somehow it didn't. It's always interesting when intelligent and well-informed people are wrong about something. Perhaps there was too much Design and too little boring boiler plate. https://levien.com/ https://levien.com/ https://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html https://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html https://levien.com/phd/phd.html https://levien.com/phd/phd.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodipodi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodipodi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advogato https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advogato https://raphlinus.github.io/xi/2020/06/27/xi-retrospective.html https://raphlinus.github.io/xi/2020/06/27/xi-retrospective.h...

amelius 4y ago
> He was recently instrumental in performing a wonderful experiment in editor building -- wonderful because of the way it failed. They clearly should have migrated to C++ sooner :)
- peterfirefly 4y ago
  Yes, C++ does have fast JSON parsers.
hu3 4y ago
Sorry but I didn't know the author either. And with due respect, none of his work is directly aplicable in the majority of software development roles I have been involved with, directly and indirectly. And that's fine. There's nothing to be ashamed of nor it is something to shame someone for. The world is large and specialized. If we were speaking about Linus or Bill Gates then perhaps it would be a surprise for some tech savy person to not know them.

ndesaulniers 4y ago

Tell us you write C++ without telling us you write C++. I write C++; the post was hilarious. You're just being salty.