Hacking Quartz

Exposed writes "Meaty interview with Rich Wareham who is known to Linux users for his libdvdnav library which is used by Xine and other linux players. On OS X he created Desktop Manager, the GPL solution for VirtualDesktops on the Mac. Highlights are secret APIs in OS X for VirtualDesktops, who steals GPL source and why beginner programmers are at a disadvantage now."

For a second (no pun intended) there...

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought this was going to be an article about overclocking your wristwatch.

Wrong quartz...

[Tassach]

I got all excited thinking there was going to be an article about DIY piezoelectric devices

Okay.

[numbski]

Note: THIS IS ON TOPIC. RTFA. KTHX. :)

The man doesn't like spirits, but he likes beer.

I've noted, most everyone either likes liquor, liqueur, or beer.

Why is there such a lack of interest in cider? I have my own batch finishing up it's first rack right now, and I'll be moving it to second racking adding honey tomorrow. :P

The more I've read the history of this country, it seems like the germans moved in and totally obliterated the cider makers and moved in with the beer. :( I love my cider dangit. :P

Oh, and love the app, use it all the time. ;)

narf?

[happyfrogcow]

nicking my, now ex, girlfriend :)

someone define "nicking" for the, um... curiously imaginative.

Re:Good (not bad) article (interview)

[Long-EZ]

...the guy's overabundance of parentheticals was very distracting

Programmers THINK parenthetically. If you see parentheses nested three or more layers deep, you can be sure the text was authored by a code jockey. And the parentheses always match, ensuring the article will compile properly.

If you see programmer text that occasionally uses a semicolon to mark the end of a sentence instead of a period, you can make some educated guesses about the programmer's favorite language.

You may occasionally see crayon scribbled text with line numbers, as penned by a larva geek.

I had some helpful tips on this...

[Chuck Bucket]

but it was in my book titled "OS X: The Missing Manual" and I can't find it.

PCB$5%

Re:Good (not bad) article (interview)

[Anonymous Coward]

If the parentheses are nested six or more layers deep, it could well have been written by a Lisp programmer.

Re:Good (not bad) article (interview)

[jesboat]

That prints "unphooey". (Yes, there are still unresolved issues having to do with visibility of @_. I'm ignoring that question for the moment. (But note that if we make @_ lexically scoped, those anonymous subroutines can act like closures... (Gee, is this sounding a little Lispish? (Never mind.))))
from perlsub(1)

Couldn't resist.