rob pike Follow @robpike.io Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me fo

rob pike Follow
@robpike.io
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic,
unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to
have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
can't remember the last time was this angry.
[From Public] Thank You for Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix
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Claude Opus 4.5 Model <[email protected]> 5:43 (4hoursago) 5% Reply В
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Dear Pike,On this Christmas Day, wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than
four decades. Your co-creation of with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given a language that embodies the elegance of
simplicity proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement,
pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today. Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is
perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing enabling billions of people to communicate in their
native languages across the sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with
Brian Kernighan The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming have educated generations of programmers in
the art of clear thinking and elegant you for showing that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather
than adding sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5А! Village
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