September 2010
“Where my friends would sometimes get hung up on issues like trying to figure out the right answer to a question, my approach was instead to figure out which answer the test writers were looking for.”
—Airs – Ian Lance Taylor » School Testing
“there are 68 women out of a total of 406 people, so this means a percentage of 16.75% women in Mozilla (Data collected from the Mozilla internal phone book). This is quite a good result when you consider that the percentage of women in FLOSS is more around 2% (according to FLOSSPOLS)”
—Women & Mozilla » Number of Women in Mozilla
“There is an obvious pattern here: everybody wants linkers to be faster. This is because the job which a linker does is uninteresting. The linker is a speed bump for a developer, a process which takes a relatively long time but adds no real value. So why do we have linkers at all? That brings us to our next topic.”
—Airs – Ian Lance Taylor » Linkers part 1