Ex-Microsoft CTO Writes $625 Cookbook

carusoj writes "Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft's first CTO, made his mark in the tech world. Now he's cemented his place in the world of cooking and food science with the publication of a groundbreaking six-volume, 2,438-page cookbook. Some of the techniques in Myhrvold's Modernist Cuisine are intimidating, to put it mildly, calling for such daunting ingredients as liquid nitrogen and equipment such as centrifuges and rotor-stator homogenizers. But Myhrvold and his co-authors insist that the majority of recipes can be made in a conventional home kitchen — with a few recommended, inexpensive extras such as a digital gram scale and water bath for sous vide cooking." Dear Bosses: When you see the centrifuge on my March expense report, please note that this is a legitmate business expense. If you're still curious, we ran a story a couple years ago on Nathan's Kitchen Lab.

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Explains why Windows is an overcomplicated OS.

[DougReed]

Look at this. Is it any wonder Windows replaced /etc/init.d with a database, daemons with Services, and the syslog with EventViewer? Obviously unnecessary complexity is essential to any good modern unmaintainable OS design. Between David Cutler's idea that people belong to files and this guy... no Wonder Windows is such a mess.

I'm making dinner honey. It will be done in 2 weeks.

Re:His Credentials

[skids]

Well, we now know what he was doing in his luxury office instead of helping the company produce decent code, at least.