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Interesting in that when it comes to computers, he [Rob Pike] knows what he's doing. Clearly not. For one thing you just don't erase a working drive with your

Interesting in that when it comes to computers, he [Rob Pike] knows what he's doing. Clearly not. For one thing you just don't erase a working drive with your data on it until the repair is successful. If it's some warranty thing and they are going to take the drive then you at least make a 1:1 image of it using dd or equivalent block copy first. If they are replacing it with the same size just dd the image back for that matter. The worst part is this repair is trivial for anybody that knows what he's doing. You just order a replacement drive from newegg (or wherever), mount the new and old drives using target disk mode or external enclosure, and copy the disk. Then you swap the drives. This wasn't an Air or something difficult, just unscrew the case and replace the drive. Or if you really don't want to take it apart yourself have the repairman do the swap. It's really easy, especially with a second Apple available. I did it just a few weeks ago for a family member, the only actual time investment is opening the case to swap the drives.

adgar 14y ago
First off: you're responding to someone saying "he knows what he's doing," and you saw an opening to insult Rob Pike so you took it. That's the entire point of your post. For everyone else: The whole fucking point isn't that he's a genius and can fix computers, it's that he called Apple and repeatedly trusted them to take care of him and they failed. That's why he's contrasting their support against the electrician in the story. He trusted their backup solution to be satisfactory for backing up his machine. For trusting that when he called Apple's Pro Tools folks for a license key, he wouldn't just get bitched at for not doing something he actually had already done. If you're calling him a moron for trusting Apple to do these things for him, say so. We'd probably all agree with you. Oh wait - you're hate on him because he works for Google on Go, because you're a notorious anti-Go, and in general an anti-Google troll. (Others: see the same username on Reddit.) That's why you ignored context, the electrician story, the whole point of the blog post and instead just wasted a few sentences calling Rob Pike incompetent. Now your comment makes a lot more sense.

adgar 14y ago

First off: you're responding to someone saying "he knows what he's doing," and you saw an opening to insult Rob Pike so you took it. That's the entire point of your post. For everyone else: The whole fucking point isn't that he's a genius and can fix computers, it's that he called Apple and repeatedly trusted them to take care of him and they failed. That's why he's contrasting their support against the electrician in the story. He trusted their backup solution to be satisfactory for backing up his machine. For trusting that when he called Apple's Pro Tools folks for a license key, he wouldn't just get bitched at for not doing something he actually had already done. If you're calling him a moron for trusting Apple to do these things for him, say so. We'd probably all agree with you. Oh wait - you're hate on him because he works for Google on Go, because you're a notorious anti-Go, and in general an anti-Google troll. (Others: see the same username on Reddit.) That's why you ignored context, the electrician story, the whole point of the blog post and instead just wasted a few sentences calling Rob Pike incompetent. Now your comment makes a lot more sense.