Eric S. Raymond, open source author and hacker culture figure, writes on programming, version control, politics, and open source.
Commenters cite his essays on git-svn and netiquette, but some are put off by his heated political posts and flaming.
No, he just writes blog posts with titles like "The First Time I Changed History".
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2539
That said, in the latter half of this post he backpedals and gives the "hacker culture" credit for being able to recognize his contributions, but still -- the title of the article isn't "On the openness of the RFC process in the 80s".
I don't know what to think about ESR. I disagree strongly with his interpretation of what hacker culture is, and how free software works, and personally I think it has taken us a long time to undo some of the damage he did to the discourse in both those areas. But he also legitimately influenced a lot of things for the better. Oddly, he seems to be unsatisfied with that level of achievement, and wants to be recognized as being a great statesman or visionary. If he claimed less credit he'd probably get more credit.
Take a look at her comments on github and judge for yourself.
https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941
She wants to tar and feather an OSS contributor for views expressed on a personal twitter account. Further down searches through his ~400 git repositories, finds two with potentially offensive names (which have rational explanations, including being non-native english speaker), and uses that as basis to continue witch hunt.
Eric Raymond did a good write up on what's happening here that I certainly found insightful. He gives a description that perfectly describes what you see in that github issue:
"What’s there is totalitarianism in miniature: ideology is everything, merit counts for nothing against the suppression of thoughtcrime, and politics is conducted by naked intimidation against any who refuse to conform."
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6918
I'm surprised this article is from 2017. It seems that esr doesn't account for the latest (huge) improvements of Rust during the last year.
Given that Rust is younger than Go, ignoring a year's worth of development makes for an especially unfair comparison.
The issues he cited were from 2014 and 2015, regarding Rust for networking code. Moreover, on his blog post (http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7294) he received a clear answer that he seems to have ignored:
Stefano:
[...]
For epoll: There is a crate. You could also use
future-rs or tokio. So you have three possibilities.
Finally, the author of another networking project, TRust-DNS, used these Rust features and was quite satisfied with the elegance of the resulting code:
https://bluejekyll.github.io/blog/rust/2016/12/03/trust-dns-into-future.html
These "data analysis techniques to correct for a false decline" at best consisted of substituting thermometer readings for tree ring proxies. I wouldn't call that a "data analysis technique".
They also "improved" the curve for the 1930s as ESR learned from the code and data (http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1447): "This, people, is blatant data-cooking, with no pretense otherwise. It flattens a period of warm temperatures in the 1930s — see those negative coefficients? Then, later on, it applies a positive multiplier so you get a nice dramatic hockey stick at the end of the century."
Also note how this meshes nicely with the paper that started this thread that did not until it was corrected show that 1934 was the hottest year in the 20th century.
For anyone interested, "Cultural Marxism" refers to the application of Marxist critical theory to the social sciences, particularly issues of race, gender, culture, and identity.
Current mainstream leftist memes, with a focus on issues like "white privilege", and the systematic inversion of this supposed privilege, cannot be described as anything but Cultural Marxism.
Somewhat related, and highly recommended, is the article Gramscian Damage by ESR (http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=260).
And if anyone like eli_gottlieb wants to smear you as an antisemite for speaking out against Marxism, this is why: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=125
That's a surprise to me, I hadn't heard any of that. Not that I've followed things that closely.
What I found so far is [1], in which he seems to just be doing a bit of a "show me the data" thing wrt global warming (its fairly old I guess in defense). In [2] he's definitely saying IQ is race-related, and gender related to a lesser extent, in my quick readings.
I quite like that he doesn't mince his words, sugar coat things or seem to take any notice of popular opinion/political correctness. Not agreeing with him, but I find that refreshing.
[1] http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1436
[2] http://esr.ibiblio.org/?m=200311