Comment Re:Experience is a Gift... (Score 1) 602
There's something to be said for just going home, getting some sleep, and taking a fresh look in the morning.
And yet this attitude won't get you promoted.
There's something to be said for just going home, getting some sleep, and taking a fresh look in the morning.
And yet this attitude won't get you promoted.
I've had the same experience. It is far more valuable to exercise, eat right, go to sleep on time, etc. You spend less time creating WTF in your code. The net effect is a single delivery may take longer but the whole system has lower WTF count and thusly comes together faster, better, stronger.
"Programming requires long nights staring blankly at mind-muddling objective languages."
Actually, no, it doesn't. I have never done this and never will. And yet I'm gainfully imployed as a programmer and my bosses (including the owners of the company) constantly tell me they value my contributions to the company.
Okay. I'm doing something wrong. Where the hell do you work and how can I get a job there?
Don't bother me with details. I have an inciteful story to not read and make wild assumptions about!
Exactly. I would have said "insightful" otherwise. Slashdot often rewards inciteful over insightful.
Don't take it personally, you posted AC so I was having fun. I rarely let loose like that. It was cathartic.
Again, I ask why? I just don't follow your logic.
My logic is this:
As I said, "I don't know who wrote TrueType" but I was under the impressions that:
This all is predicated on the idea that people wish their work to be:
Granted this argument does not hold if people do not value their work, care if it is used, or care if it is thrown away.
Based on your lack of understanding I presume one of the following is true about you:
While you may not follow my logic I follow yours perfectly. This indicates that either
I can accept either outcome.
+1 inciteful
I never said "no ethical person should work there" however I was dumb enough to reply to an AC.
+1 insightful.
I guess the Apple guys just got dissed on by the Microsoft guys then... but that's certainly not news.
I don't know who wrote TrueType but MS using FreeType must burn them up. I know it would tick me off.
Well, I guess it's the Apple software team that should be ticked then, but, I doubt there's any love lost between the Apple and Microsoft guys.
The Apple software team that just had to put out iOS 4.0.2 to fix the FreeType security hole that allowed people to jailbreak their phones (or get hacked by a more evil website with a malicious PDF)? If it's good enough for the company that originally developed TrueType and held the key patents, why not use FreeType?
I'm not saying they shouldn't.
I don't know who wrote TrueType but MS using FreeType must burn them up. I know it would tick me off.
From Wikipedia: "TrueType is an outline font standard originally developed by Apple Computer in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript. TrueType has become the most common format for fonts on both the Mac OS and Microsoft Windows operating systems."
There was a story on Slashdot back in July talking about FreeType celebrating the expiration of the Apple's TrueType patent.
Well, I guess it's the Apple software team that should be ticked then, but, I doubt there's any love lost between the Apple and Microsoft guys.
The focus on "web inter-op" and publishing. If they are striving for "looks the same on PC, Mac and on the web", their chances are better if they start using a font typeset that is freely distributable to those platforms.
If that's the motivation and MS starts pushing back on some of its other in house technologies substituting OSS versions... if I had been an MS developer writing the original versions I might read that as a vote of "no confidence" from my own managers. That would prompt me to look for other work because what I was doing at MS would not be valuable to either MS or the industry as a whole.
But, I don't work at Microsoft. And other posters have pointed out this may not be at all what is happening in this case.
No, the FreeType guys should be proud. The original Mac TrueType team should be a bit steamed. Presumably there was some Mac TrueType team that just had all their hard work tossed out. Another poster pointed out that there may not be a TrueType implementation in house at Microsoft that works on the Mac.
If there isn't a Microsoft TrueType for Mac team then no harm no foul.
Reality must take precedence over public relations, for Mother Nature cannot be fooled. -- R.P. Feynman
