noah’s mark

I want to clarify something of what I wrote in the last post about when the keyboard is more effective than the mouse and how it relates to bandwidth.  If you haven’t already read the post on The Productive Programmer and vim, go do so, then come back.

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(Rules taken from an email thread I’m reading right now).

The email thread was trying to ascertain if there are effectively things equivalent to Apple Keychain on Linux.  Here’s how my favorite response went:

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Go, now; download and fluorish.

That is all :)  Oh, and I deleted the Tom Cruise crazy video post (where he talks about what it means to be a scientologist), because it isn’t on youtube anymore.  The youtubes have let me down.

Apparently, if it weren’t for big evil IBM oppressing Microsoft, OOXML would have been a standard in “business as usual”.  Oh, you heard me right.  Go read the article.  Once you’ve finished laughing, come back.

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I was downloading F# this evening and, on a whim, decided to actually read the EULA.  It follows the general pattern of the Microsoft Research - Shared Source License Agreement.  How bad could it be, right?  The vast majority of academic stuff I see released is general GPL, LGPL, CC, or BSD licensed.  The general theme is always the same - do what you want, possibly with attribution, and possibly no commercial stuff.  But this one is a completely different story.

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While working on some code for work, I came to the understanding that, in general, the C# team (at least in its public form, i.e. the public responses to questions and justifications for lack of features), suffers in two ways.

First off, they suck at the details (more to come).

Second off, they are idiots (to be explained as well).

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