Is IBM blowing their Smalltalk ship out of the water just when the tide is heading again for dynamic languages?
My interpretation of the newsgroup thread that is pointed to is "No"; sounds like a holding statement to me. Plenty of people reading between the lines and speculating though!
This article reflects many of my opinions about Paul Grahams article:Great Hacker != Great Hire
I too enjoyed the essay, but I too rankled at some of the strictures (Obviously I am not a great hacker!)
I really don't understand the part about not wanting to work on customer stuff - ultimately that IS what matters. The number of jobs you can do without pesky users is severely limited - back to academia ?
Also, team work is just so important; are there pretty great hackers who are more productive than most, but aren't prima donnas ?
BBC NEWS | UK | MoD denies US missiles set for UK
Not so much whether we have the missiles or not, but how the decision has been made scretly (if it has).
I thought most of the world had come to realise that allowing states to close down presses is a bad idea, unless you want to undermine democracy. Here is the modern equivalent of shutting down the presses: Home Office in frame over FBI's London server seizures | The Register : " What does this action say about freedom of expression and freedom of the press?"
Much fun with the SenderID debacle at IETF with some great houmo[u]r:Evil of September 2004 :: OSDir.com :: Open Source, Linux News & Software: "users are just friends who haven't submitted a patch yet"
Good, fun article.
After reading Mark Bernsteins article I took a look at his:Eastgate Tinderbox: the tool for notes : "Tinderbox is a personal content management assistant. It stores your notes, ideas, and plans. It can help you organize and understand them. And Tinderbox helps you share ideas through Web journals and web logs."
Sounds really good but I don't have any Macs to try it on. Linux version some day ?
But that takes time !!
A recommended article, even though I do find myself wincing every now and again - perhaps I shouldn't write at all :-(
