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Mitch Kapor's Outlook-Killer
Kent Brewster writes "In the San Jose Mercury this morning: 'For more than a year, [Mitch] Kapor and his small team have been working on what they're calling an open-source "Interpersonal Information Manager." The software is being designed to securely handle personal e-mail, calendars, contacts and other such data in new ways, and to make it simple to collaborate and share information with others without having to run powerful, expensive server computers.'" Kapor explains his intent in his own words.
Or did anyone else read the headline and think there was yet another outlook vulnerability?
Pain lasts, kid. Its how you know you're alive. Sometimes I think this growing up thing is just pain management-TheMaxx
Why not build on the success of evolution?
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Kinda disappointed... For a second there, I thought it was another email worm that uninstalled Outlook on its way out...
=)
Code-named ``Chandler''
At least it wasn't named after the same character from 'Friends'...
People might have worried that the software would take after the character... get a bit bloated and be a bit sarcastic. :)
Are you local? There's nothing for you here!
Perhaps this is a bit exaggerated but I've simply experienced too many disappointments with software which does not exist yet.
Yeah, I've always had problems trying to get non-existant software to compile. Even when I do it never seems to run.
... is Exchange =)
Unless divine intervention has to do something with killing that eeevil outlook of course
Yeah, I've always had problems trying to get non-existant software to compile. Even when I do it never seems to run.
you should probably upgrade to gcc3.2
my other penis is a vagina
Yours Sincerely, Michael.
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Evan
"$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
You know, if you compile the output of a million /dev/random's with a million compilers for an unlimited amount of time, you'll eventually end up with a working linux kernel ...:-)
Um... I didn't do it!
But you wouldn't have to groff nearly that many of them to get a complete set of man pages for the unix command set.
now overwhelmingly dominated by Microsoft's inelegant but overwhelmingly dominant Outlook
This surprisingly clumsy phrase was clumsy but surprising to me.
steveha
lf(1): it's like ls(1) but sorts filenames by extension, tersely
Hmm, I think you mean Kaporware.
You're a suburbanite.
I've been meaning to swap some books in Safari and check out the Learning Python... I guess I finally have some reason....
but why is there no code available?
When you learn Python, you'll find that it's high-level, dynamic nature allow you to accomplish a great deal in only a few lines of code. So no code in Python probably contains more functionality than no code in C.
You'll also find that whitespace is an important part of Python syntax. So look closer--that "no code" could contain a lot of significant whitespace.
The evaluation of an action as 'practical' . . . depends on what it is that one wishes to practice.
too bad I already patented it since I was planning on doing it the day after tomorrow
Note to reader: this is not a flame! I'm just joking around. It's funny, laugh.
From the article:
A couple of paragraphs ago, it became clear that I could not take all of Mitch Kapor's claims seriously while at the same time fully realizing my internal goals of being honest to myself and others. This gave rise to an important idea, which is that (maybe) Mitch has been in marketing far too long. I felt it was important to continue reading so that I could be fully informed. All of which is to say that I have to keep reading while Mitch drones on and on about "product" and "deferring work" and more "product".
At this point, a small team has spent the better part of a year thinking through the problem space and developing a theory to explain wtf Mitch's problem is. (Their answer? Five tons of flax! (see ddate(1) or your peneal gland for more info)) I've made a number of fundamental decisions about the quality of the weblog I've just read and have arrived at a (not preliminary) set of conclusions:
The part that really got me was the first line of the second quoted paragraph. Yes, I understand what he means by "thinking through the problem space", but I can't ignore that he actually phrased it that way. Guys, the only time a programmer should talk of "problem space" is when she or he is writing code that handles one. E.g. an expert system that has to search its database to find the "best" answer to the user's querry or a (chess-like) games program that has to search the tree of valid moves to find a good one or a root finding program that has to search in the x-y plane (or the x-y-z space or n-dimensional space) for the set of points where f(x[1],x[2],...,x[n])=0.
Now go talk amongst yourselves while I "think through the problem space" of how to quit being a slashdot bum and go get a job. :-P (I know, I know. The answer is obvious...)
Furry cows moo and decompress.
"having every feature a user wants"
/. will have their comments in an email format.
/. addicts... just wait to see this stuff working !!!
That of course means that
Imagine the anxiety just waiting for that pop-up window saying: "Your message has been replied" or "You've been moderated insighful".
And believe that some of us are
We are Turing O-Machines. The Oracle is out there.