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Gentoo Founder Quits Microsoft

Posted by Zonk on from the employee-retention-problems dept.

ChocLinux writes "ZDNet is reporting that Daniel Robbins, the founder of Gentoo Linux, has left his job at Microsoft after only eight months. From the article: 'The reason I decided to leave had to do with my specific experiences working in Microsoft's Linux Lab,' says Robbins. 'I wasn't able to work at my full level of technical ability and I found this frustrating'"

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  1. Re:It probably went like this... by PornMaster · · Score: 1, Troll

    I think he may have asked when he'd get to -funroll-loops and they gave him a slinky to straighten.

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  2. Recent Microsoft successes by metamatic · · Score: 0, Troll
    Microsoft has just had a string of very successful product launches

    Name three?

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  3. Re:Bummer by bertramwooster · · Score: 1, Troll

    Sheesh, he didn't even have enough time to finish compiling Gentoo once.

    thats not coincidence.

  4. Re:For most... by Curtman · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Why the $EXPLETIVE can std::strings covert themselves to const char* but not char* when most functions dealing with strings expect a char* as a parameter?"

    Why the $EXPLETIVE wouldn't you use strndup() to do that? You want somestring.c_str() to return a freshly malloc'd string every time, or just a pointer to some internal/opaque memory store so you can copy it if you want? They're const char*'s because you can't/shouldn't change the strings they point to. If a char* is what you want, copy it somewhere first, or just cast the thing if you are really sure it is safe to do so.