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When Rewriting an App Actually Makes Sense 289

Posted by timothy on Saturday May 22, 2010 @08:40AM from the old-app-was-starting-to-fester dept.

vlangber writes "Joel Spolsky wrote a famous blog post back in 2000 called 'Things You Should Never Do, Part I,' where he wrote the following: '[T]he single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make: They decided to rewrite the code from scratch.' Here is a story about a software company that decided to rewrite their application from scratch, and their experiences from that process."

Comment Re:Simple. Microsoft's Power management SUCKS! (Score 1) 576

by Your Average Joe on Thursday April 16, 2009 @10:39PM (#27606851) Attached to: Why IT Won't Power Down PCs

Have you tried a Mac lately? Since 2005 and the PowerPC Mac Mini I have been amazed at how power management via sleep/wake works on a mac. Even with the bluetooth keyboard and mouse my MacMini would sleep taking only 2 watts of power and it would wake in less than 5 seconds with a fully functional wireless network connection. My 2006 macbook had the same predictable and usable results as well as my 2008 macbook. All of my Mac computers I have put different hard dives and non apple ram and they still work great.

In fact I chuckle each time I see a Windows user shutting down a laptop when at the airport, because with my mac I just close the lid and it goes to sleep and stays sleeping till I take it out and open it up.

No software or drivers have stopped the mac from working right. The Dell windows machines at work may have issues with software or drivers...

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