MS Code

Kuro5hin article on the leaked MS sourcecode.

Despite my regular anti-MS sentiment, the conclusions it draws (apart from commenting on comments...) are just what you might expect.

MS doesn't seem to have nicked anything they shouldn't have, their more recent code is quite well written but suffers from numerous hacks to maintain compatibility with old versions and other software that relies on previous bugs, their coders have a sense of humour and the leak barely constitutes a major problem for anyone in particular.

Quelle suprise - anyone who's worked on anything above a hobby-scale software project will recognise how hard it can be to manage many coders on millions of lines of source, with projects that have a history and an existing userbase. They might make many ass decisions in terms of strategy, but their code / coders pretty much have to be clued-up to just plain do their job.

[Nicked from Nils]

Out you come, fellers - it's OK, this is 2004...

Is there something Nokia's Forum developers want to tell us?

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And there was me thinking Siemens made PhruiturePhones.

"Connecting people" indeed.

Metaphors

"Leaked source-code" - that is clearly not even a euphemism, is it?

The humanity

I have recently had to say "I'm sorry I came in your shoes" to my girlfriend, owing to her finding this post (warning, possibly not what you want to see if you're eating - contains traces of nuts).

Worse yet, I was denied (unfairly, to my mind) the spoils.

I think this is a blatant abuse of the spirit of betting someone fiddy pee to do something but apparently, there is not appeals committee.

THAT IS UNTIL NOW.

fiddypee - Game on.

RESULT!

We have a winner! (weiner?)

I'd like to congratulate alienfox for being the first winner of fiddypee from myself.

I'm sorely tempted to see how many of the things on that list we can actually work through.

I'm sure this wasn't what the man intended, but it does make use of phuturephones, and I've got this line of dogs I want shot of...