Posted Wednesday 1st October 2008 09:21 GMT
"Charles Simonyi, Bill Gates, Kim Il Sung, and Martha Stewart all into the one page."
Wow - if there was ever a party with those people all in one place - it would be a halloween party. I mean can you think of a scarier bunch?
(Yahoo! has! to! be! part! of! this!)
Posted Wednesday 1st October 2008 09:24 GMT
... Robert X Cringely is a fabrication of Ethernet inventor Bob "one trick pony" Metcalfe's rag Infoworld, right?
I only ask because you speak^wtype of Bob X as a real person ...
Posted Wednesday 1st October 2008 09:24 GMT
... and occasionally been subjected to the hideous codefuck that is "Hungarian notation", is there any chance of leaving him up there permanently?
Posted Wednesday 1st October 2008 09:24 GMT
"...the Multiplan spreadsheet, which was not so much the precursor of Excel as the reason Microsoft had to build it, and [...] the world's first wordprocessor with a spreadsheet user-interface. It took five years to repair the damage."
Well that's "innovation" for you and it is clearly what made MS the company it is today.
Posted Wednesday 1st October 2008 09:24 GMT
Richard Garriott? What that Richard Garriott?
Posted Wednesday 1st October 2008 15:46 GMT
Actually, Apps Hungarian notation is excellent:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html
It's MS's Systems Hungarian notation that's shite.
Posted Thursday 2nd October 2008 01:29 GMT
I'm a fabrication myself. So of course I knew that shit...
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