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Hacking Mac OS X

Posted by timothy on from the whackity-whack dept.

Bill Hamm writes "DB is carrying a deep interview with Jonathan Rentzsch, who created an open source technology to allow other developers to inject their code into any running process to alter its functions and written papers for IBM to program the PowerPC correctly. The interview is huge and technical, and all over the place in terms of content. Some of the things discussed are the reasons for corporate America's resistance to buying from Apple, software optimization, the importance and history of 10.4's Core Data, why WebObjects is no longer relevant, the status of PowerPC compilers, and why Mac OS X's Finder should be killed off."

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  1. Huge tech interview at Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The interview is huge and technical, and all over the place in terms of content.

    A huge technical interview on Slashdot?

    A guess that means no one will read it, but everyone has an opinion.

  2. FWIW, the code is... by tcopeland · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...on SourceForge here.

    Nice comment, too:
    // It is truely insane we have to stat() the file system in order to
    // discover the size of an in-memory data structure.
    :-)
    --
    The Army reading list
  3. Re:Why has corporate America avoided Macs? by rokzy · · Score: 5, Funny

    so long as you're going to argue by exaggeration and BS, then businesses have avoided Macs because they're run by retards and easily swayed by the herd instinct to go with Microsoft.

    look at academics - Mac use there is enormous, because academics are intelligent enough to choose the best. they also use computers to do actual computer work, not just the occasional email and word document.