when someone told me at some point that "Plan 9 is really just a 9P multiplexer" it made so much more sense... that's what makes it simple, but also takes a bit to see and understand that, and that part of the code is always somewhat difficult to understand...
but the entire thing being mostly understandable because of the simplicity is so good for the engineers... a professor described to me a design approach of three teams: a group of engineers who all know what they're making from the engineering side really well, a group of experts on the topic of what is even being made, and a group of users testing it all. three distinct groups that work well together. for Plan 9 as we see it ever, mostly everyone is in each of the three teams... a product that is really for something that isn't the engineering itself would also need a good team of experts on whatever it was for, and a good team of people who would likely be people who end up using it On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM Eli Cohen <[email protected]> wrote: > > thank you, that's a really good idea > > On Sun, Mar 30, 2025, 4:41 PM Eli Cohen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> oh, yeah, definitely, explain that to them >> >> >> On Sun, Mar 30, 2025, 4:38 PM Ron Minnich <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I don't know about hiring. But this talk has an interesting >>> perspective: https://youtu.be/7Yp8Smkznmk?si=9yxeY7eA4ieNvQcL >>> >>> The presenter mentions that, using the microsoft industrial control >>> stuff, with its reams of documentation, was actually harder than just >>> writing code in Plan 9. Some sort of threshold gets crossed on these >>> systems, where reading a little bit of C is easier than reading a >>> giant pile of semi-accurate documentation. >>> >>> So there are companies starting to see that working with a compact, >>> well-written system, where you have source; can be easier than working >>> with a gargantuan system which is a large set of binary blobs, >>> constantly changing in ways that make it hard to understand. >>> >>> Maybe that's where you want to look. >>> >>> On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 6:03 AM Eli Cohen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > >>> > I really did not think to just ask on the mailing list, but why not... >>> > is anyone hiring people for anything they can do here who are not that >>> > good at doing anything else? ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Td5dbb6fbbc4aad03-M27d3d90478f889d58b9a860e Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
