This conjures up images of a puzzled Justin Long watching John Hodgman running haphazardly on treadmill while simultaneously wolfing down cheesburgers.
Obviously we must petition the United States Treasury to release a $2.56 bill with Don Knuth's face on it, which he can then autograph and send to the smarty pants who find errors in his book.
- Reasonably attractive hooker to seduce target: $1000 - Hidden spy camera to record target's naughty shenanigans: $500 - Express Mail of blackmail photos to targets' home address: $50 - Making defense contractors look like overpriced idiots: priceless.
They want to recreate the project by getting rid of all the original developers who understood the old code and are familiar with all of the design challenges and tradeoffs, replace them with the cheapest warm bodies they can find, and rewrite the whole thing using (what I'm assuming) is Java+Swing.
Is this really a story about an Open Source project imploding, or a for-profit initiative starting off with a disastrous set of software engineering decisions.
I never actually thought there'd be a target audience for those "SATISFY HER NOW! INCREASE YOUR PROCECESSOR CYCLE COUNT TODAY!" messages that keep appearing in my spam folder.
Not only is it unfit for US consumption, it's likely unfit for M$ consumption and is the official documentation that M$ developers have to use to interoperate with other M$ products.
Actually, we fanbois hope that this announcement will jar Apple out of its iPhone SDK NDA foolishness, since Apple will now have to compete with a platform that actually allows people to write programming books on it and lets its programmers to ask each other for help without fear of impending lawsuit.
It only takes me 3 seconds to recover my train of thought after thinking about sex. Which is why I'm able to think about sex far more often than I read emails.
If speed is so important for the author of the article, wouldn't something written in C using libxml be a better choice than using (what I'm assuming) are XML modules written exclusively in Perl?
"All parts of the Internet are on the iPhone" could be construed to mean "The entire Internet is on the iPhone." Not only does this mislead the buyer into assuming that their iPhone has enough storage to hold the entire Internet, but implies that bricking an iPhone would result in the bricking of the entire Internet and destruction of the global economy.
There hasn't yet been a single joke involving either a member of an ethnicity or a profession and their ability to change a wireless lightbulb. I consider that progress.
Come to think of it, how many Croatian scientists does it take to change a wireless lightbulb?
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This conjures up images of a puzzled Justin Long watching John Hodgman running haphazardly on treadmill while simultaneously wolfing down cheesburgers.
Guess I better start deleting my wmv's of Bin Laden doing hot Enron executives.
Obviously we must petition the United States Treasury to release a $2.56 bill with Don Knuth's face on it, which he can then autograph and send to the smarty pants who find errors in his book.
- Reasonably attractive hooker to seduce target: $1000
- Hidden spy camera to record target's naughty shenanigans: $500
- Express Mail of blackmail photos to targets' home address: $50
- Making defense contractors look like overpriced idiots: priceless.
They should just kill the minor versioning altogether and move to a "red label"/"black label" system.
Apple will soon be selling pre-bricked laptops.
How about a one-line privacy policy that states "We will most likely sell your credit card information to Al-Qaeda for a box of doughnuts."
They want to recreate the project by getting rid of all the original developers who understood the old code and are familiar with all of the design challenges and tradeoffs, replace them with the cheapest warm bodies they can find, and rewrite the whole thing using (what I'm assuming) is Java+Swing.
Is this really a story about an Open Source project imploding, or a for-profit initiative starting off with a disastrous set of software engineering decisions.
I never actually thought there'd be a target audience for those "SATISFY HER NOW! INCREASE YOUR PROCECESSOR CYCLE COUNT TODAY!" messages that keep appearing in my spam folder.
We mac developers were led to believe that by WWDC, we'd have an SDK with a lifted NDA. Nope. Didn't happen.
We mac developers were led to believe that by July 11 when the iPhone 3G was released, we'd have an SDK with a lifted NDA. Nope. Didn't happen.
Now they tell us that the NDA will be lifted at some point in the near future. What's changed?
Not only is it unfit for US consumption, it's likely unfit for M$ consumption and is the official documentation that M$ developers have to use to interoperate with other M$ products.
Actually, we fanbois hope that this announcement will jar Apple out of its iPhone SDK NDA foolishness, since Apple will now have to compete with a platform that actually allows people to write programming books on it and lets its programmers to ask each other for help without fear of impending lawsuit.
There's a shortage of people who have ten years of experience in technologies that have been around for only five years.
If I find a golden ticket in my package of ramen noodles, do I get to ride the space elevator?
Either that or we'll have natural springs that spew seltzer water.
You'd invent more stuff if you used your computer mouse instead of talking to it.
It only takes me 3 seconds to recover my train of thought after thinking about sex. Which is why I'm able to think about sex far more often than I read emails.
If speed is so important for the author of the article, wouldn't something written in C using libxml be a better choice than using (what I'm assuming) are XML modules written exclusively in Perl?
"All parts of the Internet are on the iPhone" could be construed to mean "The entire Internet is on the iPhone." Not only does this mislead the buyer into assuming that their iPhone has enough storage to hold the entire Internet, but implies that bricking an iPhone would result in the bricking of the entire Internet and destruction of the global economy.
I've always wondered why I become fixated on the big dipper after eating a really good burger.
And one day he'll learn that stats "36-24-36" don't mean "hitpoints, mana, and dexterity".
You'd know that information replication can lead to viral outbreaks of learning, unplanned knowledge, and not voting Republican.
There hasn't yet been a single joke involving either a member of an ethnicity or a profession and their ability to change a wireless lightbulb. I consider that progress.
Come to think of it, how many Croatian scientists does it take to change a wireless lightbulb?
How much you wanna bet that the evil homemade "high voltage" kit would be replaced with a corporately-produced "high amperage" kit that's "far safer."
Age of consent in China is 14 for boys, 14 for girls, and 20 for gymnasts.