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Zed's Dead, Baby. Zed's Dead.
- jrockway 17y agoI clicked through and was disappointed.
- jcl 17y agoThis is about Apple abandoning ZFS. Zed Shaw is still alive. See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=899498 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=899498
- defied 17y agoGotta love the Pulp Fiction quote :)
- geuis 17y agoI dint think the title is proper for this post.
- msie 17y agoZed Shaw's so popular that everything Zed is now associated with him? I guess everything published on Hacker News. But what if the title is lifted off a blog post? Does Zed own the blogosphere? How far does his empire reach?
- alnayyir 17y agoThis post made me feel like I was horribly trolled and violated by Mr. Gruber. I am sad. :(
- aaco 17y agoI think the main problem is that the title is misleading, even if another name were used. What does "Zed's Dead, Baby. Zed's Dead" inform that is related to ZFS? Does it somehow attract people who are interested in ZFS for Mac OS X or it hit the front page for some other reason? Or maybe the word "Zed" is just related to ZFS (or ZFS for Mac OS X) in a way that I'm unaware.
- groby_b 17y agoLet me put it that way - if you're interested in anything Mac and don't read Gruber, you're doing it wrong. So there's no need to "attract" people interested in OS X, and he doesn't really care for any other readership.
- astine 17y ago'Z' is pronounced 'zed' in some countires. Could that be it? The "Zed FS" is dead?
- thwarted 17y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zed Zed (or Z) is the twenty-sixth and final letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet. Considering the bit earlier about ZFS being dropped by Apple, and there was a point when ZFS was billed as the "final file system", I immediately read the title of this as about ZFS.
- gwern 17y agoPart of the problem is that Zed (Shaw) is associated with a conversational, bombastic, informal, pop-culture inflected style of writing and argumentation. Do you see the problem now with 'Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead'? Not only does it use the ambiguous name, it basically forces anyone who has read anything written by Zed in his rockstar persona to expect something about Zed, say, retiring his rock star blogging, because it sounds so much like him or an imitation of him. It'd be much like if you read a headline about 'Will' or maybe 'Bill', which uses several words like 'thou' or' thine'; yes, logically, nothing compels you to instantly think that it's about William Shakespeare since it never actually says which 'Will'. But nevertheless, it will lead to confusion and reflects badly on the headline writer that they didn't understand that their words were conveying something entirely different than what they meant.
- catch23 17y agowhat's wrong with pulp fiction?