Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them?
Today, I use Linux as my primary OS (on an x86 PC, and on a Thinkpad), and I also use Irix (on an SGI O2). Linux has improved a great deal since I wr… - Jamie Zawinski
Today, I use Linux as my primary OS (on an x86 PC, and on a Thinkpad), and I also use Irix (on an SGI O2). Linux has improved a great deal since I wr…
- Jamie Zawinski
To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that. - Jamie Zawinski
To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.
The real bug here is that the design of the system even permits this class of bug. It is unconscionable that someone designing a critical piece of se… - Jamie Zawinski
The real bug here is that the design of the system even permits this class of bug. It is unconscionable that someone designing a critical piece of se…
C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string. - Jamie Zawinski
C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string.
Linux is only free if your time has no value. - Jamie Zawinski
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer. - Jamie Zawinski
Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Any time someone says "that's it, I'm leaving" I ask them whether they'd prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy. As bad as thi… - Jamie Zawinski
Any time someone says "that's it, I'm leaving" I ask them whether they'd prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy. As bad as thi…
Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid? - Jamie Zawinski
Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?
You can divide our industry into two kinds of people: those who want to go work for a company to make it successful, and those who want to go work fo… - Jamie Zawinski
You can divide our industry into two kinds of people: those who want to go work for a company to make it successful, and those who want to go work fo…
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