| ▲ | johnnyanmac 6 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
For some context, this is the a long time Googler who's feats include major contributions to GoLang and Co-creating UTF-8. To call him the Oppenheimer of Gemini would be overly dramatic. But he definitely had access to the Manhattan project. >What power do big tech companies have and why do you have a problem with Do you want the gist of the last 20 years or so, or are you just being rhetorical? im sure there will be much literature over time that will dissect such a question to its atoms. Whether it be a cautionary tale or a retrospective of how a part is society fell? Well, we still have time to write that story. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | mmooss 5 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rob Pike is not a 'Googler' by birth or fame or identity. He was at Bell Labs and was on the team that created Unix, led the team creating Plan 9, co-created UTF-8, and did a bunch more - all long before Google existed. He was a legend before he deigned to join them and lend them his credibility. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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