[deirdres]

For those wondering "Who is this guy?" - you can look up his engineering qualifications and contributions elsewhere. My experience of him personally, in two years spent looking across our desks at each other, is that he has intelligence, integrity, and empathy equal to few in this industry. His retirement is a great loss to tech. As a friend, I wish him well in whatever he wants to do in his life.

[justin66]

If true, it's perhaps a bit sad that he's so willingly gone out - with this blog post, and the one about Go - in a way that paints himself as a total asshole. It's all most of us will ever have had in the way of contact with him.