Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 18:48:48 -0700 From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Cc: Ken.Monville@FergInc.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs linux Message-ID: <34972F80.13B17608@xmission.com> References: <199712161800.NAA00459@dyson.iquest.net>
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John S. Dyson wrote:
> I have added it to my signature line: how do you like it? :-).
>
> --
> John | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
> dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, and
> jdyson@nc.com | it irritates the pig. :-).
Looks good. I believe, as another user pointed out, this is a quote from
the character Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's _Time Enough for Love_.
My .sig came from a horrible software development project I worked on a
couple of years ago. Another engineer and I were given the task of
completely rewriting a 200,000 line (or so) video routing switcher (as used
in TV stations) to perform 40x faster, RIGHT NOW. It took use nearly a
year, but we got it done. We ended up with 66,000 lines of rather nicely
structured C++ that had most of the functionality of the original, and a few
features you could *never* implement in the original. We both quit when our
employer decide that rather than use this code as the basis for a new release,
they would just shelve it as a custom one-off. Doh!
So anyhow, I walked into my office one morning and my partner in crime,
Mark Matthews, had written this on the top of my whiteboard. It stayed
there until I left the company 9 months (and nearly 3600 hours) later.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com
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