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How serious is the quip about Guy Steele?

• andrewcooke 14y ago
  surely not so? people like that don't exactly need a cv... [i wonder if, given the other comment about cvs, there is a subtext related to fogus trying to find a job? although i thought he just started one.] the raspberry pi thing, though, is serious. i'm travelling to the uk next week and thought i'd pick one up while i was there. when i checked online - they're expecting stock in 5 weeks! (you can find them on amazon, but the price is significantly higher).
  • pygy_ 14y ago
    That's what I gathered too... I just wonder if he's really looking to leave Oracle...
  • corin_ 14y ago
    In stock for next day delivery at CPC: http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/search/productdetail.jsp?sku=SC12590 http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/search/productdetail.jsp?sku=SC12... Only thing worth noting is that standard CPC / Farnell policy is that your first order must be shipped to the billing address of your debit/credit card, so if you're just visiting here you might need to get a friend to order it.
    • andrewcooke 14y ago
      i kiss you! trying to get hold of my parents now :o) [huh. so once you add in tax and handling, the amazon price isn't so crazy either.]
• ChuckMcM 14y ago
  Not at all as far as I can tell. There was an inside joke for a while at Sun that the only successful languages were failed ones that you put out the source too. Sun was going to flush the folks in the Liveoak/Java group (this was in '94) since there wasn't any practical use case for Java, James Gosling and Patrick Naughton got Sun to agree to let the source be put out there on the net so that those of us who had been working for the last few years on it could point to it when someone looked at our resume and said "what is this Oak/Java thing, never heard of it." There are people who would hire Guy just to be able to say "Guy Steele works here." :-)