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Guido Goes Google
revividus writes "It seems that Python creator Guido van Rossum has received an offer from Google, and accepted it. Here is also some confirmation."
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That greasy wop gets a first post as well
Bitches
Omg could I actually have gotten first post?
I'm on David Letterman for something unrelated. But I tell David that I've decided that E does not equal MC squared, rather it's cubed. I tell David it's going to be difficult to convince people of this new theory, but if I could get the audience's help, that maybe we could start a revolution. I get a slow chant rolling ... E equals M C Cubed! E equals M C Cubed! E equals M C Cubed! Over and over again, and I'm all Jim Carey in the camera, face right on the lens ... E equals M C Cubed!
Someone's flipping channels and clicks past CBS, I mean how good can the legacy networks be, but Letterman's funny. He hears the audience chanting and the giddy laughter, and says yes, I knew that was wrong all along, it was just too simple. He takes this little nugget of information and feels some sort of superiority and it makes for some good water-cooler fodder the next day, 'did ya' hear? Einstein got it wrong, it's cubed'. Everyone thinks Marvin takes his job too seriously, but everyone else has heard snippets about the controversy on the way to work, so it settles into the collective-consciousness while everyone goes on about their life.
By now I've got an agent and I'm doing all the talk shows, Larry King, CNN, 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, Jerry Springer (Hey, my wife's Father's daughter is my wife!). People are starting to wear T-shirts: E=MC3. Science students on college campuses are catching their professors off-guard as to whether there is any credence to this new way of thinking. And even though they're assured that it's an absurd notion, the students quietly disregard the old man as lacking in foresight and flexibility. Owning a new and crazy idea is chic! It's like wearing an iPod! Oh, sure there are some denouncers but they are quickly dismissed as badly groomed and party-poopers. But there will be some quick-thinking physicists who can't quite make Tenure and they'll say 'what the hell' and start to write non-technical articles about how this looks promising, and they'll get some new clothes and some dental work and an agent and start making the speaking-rounds as an advocate for the cubed-camped. Four out of five physicists agree E equals MC, to the three! Sure it's wrong, but basking in the Hawaiian sun, drinking a Mai Tai, you realize that the universe is the universe, regardless how you choose to define it.
Six months later if you were to Google the Theory of General Relatively, it would be difficult to determine which formula was right, another six, and E=MC2 is page-ranked to the second page -- and therefore does not exist.
And then some centuries hence, a project is created to compile an Encyclopedia Galactica to be sent forth to the heavens or to a small blue-green planet where it is hoped intelligence life exists (chosen specifically for its distance, such that everyone involved in the project will long be dead and thus blameless). The section on The General Theory of Relativity gives our scribe pause, as he can't remember if it's squared or cubed. He thinks it's squared, but he wasn't good at math, and usually in these types of situations he chooses incorrectly. He has this nagging thought that maybe it's cubed, like he heard that somewhere or saw it on a T-shirt; he does a Google search. Knowing, of course, that this being The Encyclopedia Galactica there will be fact checkers and editors and all sorts of cross-verification. It will probably make a funny story in the back section of the paper -- all the prolific mistakes in the encyclopedia -- but it'll have been fixed and it won't be his problem. Headline! Encyclopedia Galactica full of errors, assured all will be fixed before launch. The call goes out to English majors world-wide.
But what our intrepid researcher didn't know is that this is a Department of Defense project, communications with threats unknown and such. And no where in that great plan, from God to Francis Scott Key to the M-16, is an English-major required. Plus, t
"This isn't a study in computer science, its a study in human behavior"
SO Funny! naming a language off a lame british tv show. Damn, that is so cool. I got it, I'll create a new language and call it Alf.
Stupid nerds.
All I can think of is Saturday Night Live.
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