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I'm speaking tomorrow at OSCON
By David Stewart (Intel) (138 posts) on July 23, 2008 at 2:08 pm
( I know it's a little late, but I took a little mental vacation here for a while, so sue me! )
If you happen to be at OSCON in Portland, OR this week, I would invite you to come by and introduce yourself at my talk. It's at 10:45 - 11:30 in room E141, which is quite close to the Expo.
I'm speaking on the topic: OpenSolaris and Intel: Greybeards no More. The idea was to contrast the prevailing notion that "Solaris" is "UNIX" and thus is for a bunch of grey-bearded old poops with no social skills and dried food on their shirts.
Anyway, we'll also talk about the things Intel is working on with this project and get some good feedback.
(For my part, I really hope I don't see a photo of myself from the 80s, complete with beard. Or, even worse, photoshopped on my current mug...)
UX-admin
I'm relatively young compared to those "Grey beards", but I have yet to see someone beat those "Grey beards" at programming. I read their works from 30-40 years ago, and have to marvel at the level of ingenuity, at the level of foresight and at the level of forward looking vision and scalability with which those "Gray beards" wrote their software.
Then I compare the "Grey beards" work with what all the generation Yers are doing, and I just want to beat them silly for reinventing the wheel and "inventing hot water, again", in some of the crappiest ways one could possibly imagine.
Had more of those short-attention-span kids sought the knowledge of the "Grey beards", they wouldn't have been condemned to repeat and reinvent it. Poorly.
Are you really sure you want to make that presentation?