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Interesting quote comparing Microsoft to Google


From the Joel on Software Blog comes an interesting quote comparing Microsoft to Google:
“A very senior Microsoft developer who moved to Google told me that Google works and thinks at a higher level of abstraction than Microsoft. ‘Google uses Bayesian filtering the way Microsoft uses the if statement,’ he said. That’s true. Google also uses [...]

“Rock solid” Mac OS X


I couldn’t agree more with David Pogue’s description in his New York Times column of the “stealth benefit” of the new iMac G5, OS X, as “rock solid.” Mentioned in MacMinute. It really amazes me that more people aren’t clued into the fact that OS X, as Pogue says, is “100 percent free [...]


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