live_to_code

This is pretty cool. I've been using a textfile for todo lists for a while, but the video tutorial really blew me away.

EDIT: This is really the type of stuff I'd love to see more on news.ycombinator.com -- tools to make me more efficient.

Forgot Jim Clark. Really liked his story too.

I trust the HN community more, and want to know of tricks / optimizations others have used.

Java source code.

Ah; this is closest to what I want; though if I can use the Sun one Sun uses for javac, it'd be even better.

What's preventing the reverse engineering effort? Legality issues? Difficulty? Time? (I've heard stories about samba, and it seems like if MS protocols can be reverse engineered, then things that have to obey the laws of physics couldn't be that much worse).

Great thanks, this is even better (a community rather than just a yes/no answer). :-)

Given issues like this, and how talented the kernel guys are ... why haven't they written a C compiler? (Not meant to rant; serious question -- we wrote silly C compilers for class; seems like programmers with real talent should be able to write real, industry strength C compilers, especially if it only needs to support C, and not C++/Java/ObjC/...)

IMHO, what differs from those people and the rest of us is their willingness to suffer it out until they succeed.