Archive for January, 2008

The end of Linux on the Desktop?

January 5, 2008
By lispian

Well, hopefully this is the end of the annual “This is the year for Linux on the Desktop” idiocy. I’ve never believed Linux is a good desktop OS. It simply lacks the tools you need for a desktop. Although some open source stuff is decent, it isn’t well enough linked into the corporate infrastructure...
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Computer Languages

January 4, 2008
By lispian
Computer Languages

I’ve been catching up on my reading, internet reading that is. And I notice that I had a lot of tabs open re: computer languages. One thing I notice that’s quite interesting is that a number of people are starting to make comments regarding various languages akin to my long-standing beliefs. Java: I’ve felt...
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Complexity

January 3, 2008
By lispian

I love Paul Graham’s comment on Dan Weinreb’s Why Did Symbolics Fail? article. Complexity has driven me nuts for years. I don’t comprehend why everything has to be so complex. It’s as if there’s a secret cabal someplace that figures it has to be hard, it’s computers. Thank God for Steve Jobs and his...
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Musings

A blog of my musings. Some folks find it interesting and so I continue. Hopefully it will remain fairly interesting. At worst, it'll keep me writing orthogonally to my day job.

 

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