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Technology Review Profiles Miguel de Icaza

Posted by simoniker on from the de-impressive dept.

prostoalex writes "Technology Review has a feature story on Miguel de Icaza, currently Novell VP of Product Technology, but more known as the leader of Gnome and Mono projects. Miguel is the man Don Box would like to see joining Microsoft for his "amazing amount of raw energy". If you read through the Technology review article, you will see that de Icaza was actually turned down by Microsoft at some point."

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  1. Re:de Icaza is one of THE best coders I've ever me by g0qi · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is why I believe the leadership should be completely decentralized and we should never idolize people like him.

    This coming from a guy who's Name is Adolph Hitler (713286).

    --
    Yea. I know.
  2. Wrong tactic? by shadowmatter · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft software architect Don Box even wrote a song imploring de Icaza to join the company and sang it to him in front of a large audience at a party late last year.

    Maybe they should have just used a stunt by Steve Ballmer instead?

    Steve (onstage): "Miguel, you're a great developer... DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!"

    - sm

  3. Re:hrm... by back_pages · · Score: 4, Funny
    If I was Miguel, I wouldn't spend too much on a dress.

    Words of wisdom for very nearly everyone named Miguel.

  4. Re:Whats better about Java? by turchinc · · Score: 2, Funny
    Oh yes, I forgot about how maintainable perl can be:
    -l @i=split//,join'',<>;for$x(0..5){for$y(0..5){map{$ t++if$i[112-21*$_+$x]eq'X'&&$i[119-21*$_+$y]eq'X'& &$i[105-21*$y+$x]eq'X'}0..5}}print$t
    as somebody once said: i would rather maintain somebody else's language than somebody else's perl...