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The Long Strange Trip to Java
- babul 18y agoA some what longwinded read but with interesting points if you are interested in Java and the early days at Sun.
- muriithi 18y agoI give up. My eyes are hurting from reading white on a black background.
- dreish 18y agoOn a Mac: System Preferences, search term "Vision". First match should be "white text on black display". Hit enter.
- michaelneale 18y agoOr control-alt-apple + 8
- tyn 18y agoI usually select the text with the mouse to alternate the colors. It's terribly annoying for me, too. I wonder if visual perception differs greatly form one person to the other (I can't explain these design choices otherwise, unless the author has sadistic tendencies)
- ii 18y agoIn Firefox: View > Page Style > No Style It has helped me to read this article. White on black is a terrible choice for long text.
- tomh 18y agoThe author writes that this was cut from the book, but I actually read it the first time in the first edition of Naughton's work. Pretty much word for word. So maybe someone got mad and decided to sue and it was left out of the second edition...?
- larryfreeman 18y agoIt should probably be pointed out that Patrick was later arrested and since then, has been largely written out of the Java story. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-515722.html http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-515722.html http://slashdot.org/articles/99/09/20/0744243.shtml http://slashdot.org/articles/99/09/20/0744243.shtml
- pragmatic 18y ago...used the Internet in an attempt to have sex with a 13-year-old girl. The kicker, of course, was that the "girl" Naughton met in a chat room called "dads&daughterssex" was an FBI agent trawling for pedophiles, and even the decoy he met on the Santa Monica pier Sept. 16 was a sheriff's deputy in pigtails. http://www.salon.com/media/col/elde/1999/12/22/naughtonwalks/ http://www.salon.com/media/col/elde/1999/12/22/naughtonwalks...
- allenbrunson 18y agoi was rooting for him to take the job at NeXT. probably would have turned out better in the long run.