A correspondent back from a war somewhere writes: More to the point, we had a large amount of Civvy laptops, and military systems together. There
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My knowledge of Talmud is, to be generous, zilch, but consider the format and style of Talmud. This is what you get when each commentator
Read moreElegance shmelagance, the Le Corbusier fallacy again (rev3).
Spolsky recently writes Alain de Botton, writing in The Architecture of Happiness (Pantheon Books, 2006) has a section on elegance that any software designer will
Read moreFree software economics
Here are four quotes. Quotes 1, 3, and 4 all make sense together, if you are sufficiently cynical, but quote #2 is remarkably odd when
Read moreBitkeeper and tossing crates of money out the windows (vistas)
wish I was like Mr. Gates, all my money in big crates – Bruce Springstein One of the many peculiar features of the software industry
Read moreAdding value to Windows
Andy Bechtolscheim says: It’s really hard to add value to Windows. Whatever you add, Microsoft is going to take away from you. Linux has opportunities.
Read morePlagiarism watch
Thanks to google code watch I see that an open source real-time Linux project has reached new heights of originality – changing the magic number
Read moreFormal methods and verification
One of my correspondents has said my comments on formal method (here and here) were too terse. There are a couple of things that annoy
Read moreThe Embedded Enterprise, Pruit-Igoe, Ayn-Rand, the telecommunications stack and why software does not suck
Programmers will readily tell you that “Windows sucks” or “Linux sucks” or “POSIX sucks” why this or that software is badly designed, bloated, slow, buggy,
Read moreBack from India
We were going into a government facility in Mumbai, and the guard points at me and asks, as if finding it hard to believe “He
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