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Monday, December 23, 2002 |
pyr-rhic (p r k)
of or relating to or resembling Pyrrhus or his exploits (especially his sustaining staggering losses in order to defeat the Romans); "a Pyrrhic victory" [dictionary.com]
I suppose by now everyone has heard that Microsoft is being required to ship Java with Windows. Setting aside the bizzarre logic of the decision does anyone believe that this is going to really help reverse Sun's fortunes?
7:41:33 PM 
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Surely the Russians have a spare Alpha?
What's an ideal site for an engineering group? i'm personally really keen on alcatraz. crank code in exchange for food that's slipped under the door at regular intervals. and there are very few distractions, even less than those present in rainy redmond. and the best thing of all is the stenciled label that goes on all the software: MADE IN ALCATRAZ.
even cooler than an engineering group based in alcatraz would be one working in a nuclear sub deep under the polar ice gap. every three months, the sub would surface to upload the next version of the software and to download supplies. the ultimate hardcode hacker environment.
[graham glass: what's next?]
4:50:26 PM
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Hmmm, he's not the first to think this...
Andy Oliver (not McMullen, my bad) read one sentence of mine and wrote:
While I think .NET is coolness, Jason Whittington must be cracked ;-) . How can Windows make you more productive in between BSODs and viruses? [courtesy of Hacking Log 2.0]
Dude! I've been running Mono on Redhat in vmware for over a year! All I said was that Tom's post reminds me soo much of Don's piece from C++ report, where Don summarized the "five stages of grief" when moving from Unix to Windows. It was a funny read that I'm still trying to scrape up to put online. I'm too lazy to actually compose a reply, I'm just going to quote Joel:
I see otherwise intelligent people writing blog entries saying something vacuous like "Microsoft is bad at operating systems," frankly, they just look dumb. Imagine trying to summarize millions of lines of code with hundreds of major feature areas created by thousands of programmers over a decade or two, where no one person can begin to understand even a large portion of it. I'm not even defending Microsoft, I'm just saying that saying that big handwavy generalizations made from a position of deep ignorance is one of the biggest wastes of time on the net today.[Better Living through software]
Present company excluded, naturally... ;)
4:46:52 PM
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Java on the CLR on SourceForge
I set up a SourceForge project. I checked in all the code and created a mailing list. Since I'm a total SourceForge newby, any comments are appreciated. I expect the mailing list to be very low traffic, so if you're at all interested in following IKVM.NET, please subscribe. BTW, I dropped the first dot from the name. It's now IKVM.NET. [Jeroen Frijters]
12:10:49 AM
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