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It’s a weird feeling to be young enough to never have experienced a world without Linux, but be close enough in time to its creation that many of the people inv
by klysm 2y ago
It’s a weird feeling to be young enough to never have experienced a world without Linux, but be close enough in time to its creation that many of the people involved are still around. My entire professional career has mostly revolved around it in some capacity. My entire life even since age like 12? It’s pretty crazy to think about the impact it has had on my life
- ahazred8ta 2y agoNote the classic "Linux is a 10 year old boy" ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7ozaFbqg00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7ozaFbqg00
- weinzierl 2y agoI feel similar for Computer Science as a whole field. It's weird to think that many of its founding fathers were still during a significant portion of my life. Claude Shannon 2001 Edsger Dijkstra 2012 John McCarthy 2011 Niklaus Wirth 2024 Konrad Zuse 1995 Alonzo Church 1995 Jim Gray 2007/2012 Grace Hopper 1992 Even Alan Turing could still have been alive during my lifetime hadn't he been murdered. Friedrich L. Baur, who died in 2015, still had an office at my university when I studied there and I often passed by, saw his name plate, and wondered if this was all real. Luckily Donald Knuth is still around.
- neontomo 2y agoAlan Turing took his own life on purpose or by accident, he wasn't murdered
- flohofwoe 2y agoIf you read up on how the UK government treated him after the war, it was essentially murder even if they didn't outright execute him.
- bigstrat2003 2y agoNo, words mean things. If they didn't actually pull the trigger, it wasn't murder. That isn't to say it was ok to treat Turing the way they did, because it wasn't ok. But it's important to not pollute the meaning of words by misusing them for greater rhetorical impact.
- Philpax 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_murder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_murder
- Philpax 2y agoAnd what led him to take his own life?
- throw-qqqqq 2y agoMany believe his “chemical castration” (forced hormone therapy) caused depression first, suicide later. Some also believe he was poisoned. I assume that is where the “murder” comes from.
- kernal 2y agoI know why you mean. It’s hard to imagine a world without the iPhone.