Thus spake the Master Programmer:
"After three days without programming, life becomes
meaningless."
Sounds like the Master Programmer has never worked at a company
that crunched you for 80 hour weeks, for weeks.
8.4
Hardware met Software on the road to Changtse. Software said:
"You are Yin and I am Yang. If we travel together, we will become
famous and earn vast sums of money." And so they set forth
together, thinking to conquer the world.
Presently, they met Firmware, who was dressed in tattered rags
and hobbled along propped on a thorny stick. Firmware said to
them: "The Tao lies beyond Yin and Yang. It is silent and still
as a pool of water. It does not seek fame; therefore, nobody
knows its presence. It does not seek fortune, for it is complete
within itself. It exists beyond space and time."
Software and Hardware, ashamed, returned to their homes.
I don't understand this one. Apple seems like the
embodiment of hardware and software earning vast sums of money. It's worked out well for them.
Maybe they're saying that firmware is an important design consideration that requires careful attention.
Maybe they're saying that firmware is an important design consideration that requires careful attention.