{"id":2190,"date":"2017-09-26T00:10:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T04:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2017-09-26T00:10:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T04:10:05","slug":"rob-pikes-dream-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/rob-pikes-dream-setup\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Pike’s dream setup"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently came across a short article on Uses This.<\/p>\n

Rob Pike talks about his setup. His response for his dream setup & having stateless devices really\u00a0intrigued me.<\/p>\n

Twenty years ago, you expected a phone to be provided everywhere you went, and that phone worked the same everywhere. At a friend’s house, or a restaurant, or a hotel, or a pay phone, you could pick up the receiver and make a call. You didn’t carry a phone around with you; phones were part of the infrastructure.<\/p>\n

– Rob Pike
\nhttps:\/\/usesthis.com\/interviews\/rob.pike\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is hard to imagine today or in the future for computers. A world where you didn’t have to carry around a mobile phone. You simply used the mobile phone wherever you went. For many reasons, what Rob talks about for phones (applied to computers) doesn’t seem likely.<\/p>\n

But it’s nice to imagine a world where you didn’t have to update your phone every couple of years. You could rely on a device at home or at work to pick up where you left off, without having to lug something expensive around and keep it charged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently came across a short article on Uses This. Rob Pike talks about his setup. His response for his dream setup & having stateless devices really\u00a0intrigued me. Twenty years ago, you expected a phone to be provided everywhere you went, and that phone worked the same everywhere. At a friend’s house, or a restaurant, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1352,1353,479,1351,1350],"class_list":["post-2190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-computer","tag-distributed","tag-phone","tag-pike","tag-rob"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2195,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions\/2195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}