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In writing MacPaint, Bill was as concerned with whether human readers would understand the code as he was with what the computer would do with it. He later said about software in general, "It's an art form, like any other art form... I would spend time rewriting whole sections of code to make them more cleanly organized, more clear. I'm a firm believer that the best way to prevent bugs is to make it so that you can read through the code and understand exactly what it's doing… And maybe that was a little bit counter to what I ran into when I first came to Apple... If you want to get it smooth, you've got to rewrite it from scratch at least five times."¹

• A sound understanding of business principles and concepts.
• An ability to think about business processes outside of the technology context.
• A really strong consulting mindset.
• Have a strategic point of view.
• Good at design thinking.
• A catalyst for change.

Sun stood out because it so often oscillated between lovable bravado and insanity.

It’s hard to think of another big-time technology shop that would be willing to rumble with Intel in the x86 chip market.

For one, it costs a ton of money to design chips. Second, just about every company that has tried to carve out an x86 niche has failed. (The most spectacular flameout being Transmeta, which went after laptops with a low-power chip.) And then, even if you succeed in getting a good product out, your reward is a constant war against Intel.

There’s way more that you can do with Postfix...

Yes there is, but all I wanted to do was have the ability to send plain old email from the command line and this was the most straight forward post I could find.... Click through to the riverturn blog to read on..

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