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Zed's Dead, Baby. Zed's Dead.

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This is about Apple abandoning ZFS. Zed Shaw is still alive.

I think more hackers need to watch more movies so they understand some movie quotes.

I know the movie. The content of the article is not apparent from the headline.

Gotta love the Pulp Fiction quote :)

I clicked through and was disappointed.

I dint think the title is proper for this post.

Zed Shaw's so popular that everything Zed is now associated with him? I guess everything published on Hacker News. But what if the title is lifted off a blog post? Does Zed own the blogosphere? How far does his empire reach?

I think the main problem is that the title is misleading, even if another name were used.

What does "Zed's Dead, Baby. Zed's Dead" inform that is related to ZFS? Does it somehow attract people who are interested in ZFS for Mac OS X or it hit the front page for some other reason?

Or maybe the word "Zed" is just related to ZFS (or ZFS for Mac OS X) in a way that I'm unaware.

Let me put it that way - if you're interested in anything Mac and don't read Gruber, you're doing it wrong.

So there's no need to "attract" people interested in OS X, and he doesn't really care for any other readership.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zed

Zed (or Z) is the twenty-sixth and final letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Considering the bit earlier about ZFS being dropped by Apple, and there was a point when ZFS was billed as the "final file system", I immediately read the title of this as about ZFS.

'Z' is pronounced 'zed' in some countires. Could that be it? The "Zed FS" is dead?

Part of the problem is that Zed (Shaw) is associated with a conversational, bombastic, informal, pop-culture inflected style of writing and argumentation. Do you see the problem now with 'Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead'?

Not only does it use the ambiguous name, it basically forces anyone who has read anything written by Zed in his rockstar persona to expect something about Zed, say, retiring his rock star blogging, because it sounds so much like him or an imitation of him.

It'd be much like if you read a headline about 'Will' or maybe 'Bill', which uses several words like 'thou' or' thine'; yes, logically, nothing compels you to instantly think that it's about William Shakespeare since it never actually says which 'Will'. But nevertheless, it will lead to confusion and reflects badly on the headline writer that they didn't understand that their words were conveying something entirely different than what they meant.

This post made me feel like I was horribly trolled and violated by Mr. Gruber.

I am sad. :(

what's wrong with pulp fiction?

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