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No they don't. One guy started a major rewrite of a broken piece of infrastructure, and "the Go team [which he is part of] now regularly volunteers to help othe
by Robin_Message 13y ago
No they don't. One guy started a major rewrite of a broken piece of infrastructure, and "the Go team [which he is part of] now regularly volunteers to help other teams with small projects", so as to learn more about how Go can replace and augment existing systems.
This headline is so far beyond journalism as to be a joke. It's just making shit up for the sake of having a "story".
I can imagine it now. They heard "gopher", thought of another animal, then thought about how awesome some of the coders on the Go team are (look at the blinking lights!), and BAM! invented an elite squadron of coders who fix whatever problem you have based on a combination of the navy Seals and the A-team.
- eliben 13y agoYep. I wouldn't surprised to see this article come from some other outlet; I did not think it's already time to add Wired to the "yellow media" bucket (though last week's article about LLVM being the last thread holding Google and Apple together just about did it)
- girvo 13y agoWired really depends on the author, IMO. I still enjoy Threat Level
- atonse 13y agoBeing married to a Journalist and also hanging out with her journalist friends has made me realize that, VERY OFTEN, the person writing the article isn't the one that writes the headline. And they sometimes hate the headline as much as the readers do, but that's how it goes in that industry, I suppose.