Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 26th May 2008 17:54 UTC
Ivan Krstic' critique of the One Laptop Per Child Project has made its ripples around the pond of the intertubes. Apart from the obvious part where it criticises a major project from an insider's point of view, it also had a few other remarks that caught people's attention - most notably the admission that despite his ability to do Linux kernel hacking, his main development laptop is a Macintosh running Mac OS X.
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2005-11-10
When you're programming, you want to focus on your work. It's hard enough juggling the architectural implications of your next line of code, without dealing with your operating system grating against you.
It's hundreds of subtle things that make Mac OS X an awesome developer platform, and it's certainly no surprise to me.