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Not too shabby. Was pretty trivial to do with Safari's developer tools, actually.

I submitted this as my resume: http://www.russellheimlich.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/...

You've pretty much got the idea.

While fun to think about – a nice little brain stretcher – this solution smells of cleverness for cleverness' sake.

Arguing that this is a better solution on the grounds of optimization would be salient if this were a function likely to be called thousands of times on a large data set. I just can't imagine that being the case in this instance.

I subscribe to the idea that when given the choice between 'clever' optimized code, and code which is instantly readable and maintainable, it's best to opt for the latter – unless you're trying to resolve an execution bottleneck.

One major point Jeff failed to mention is that the so-called dongle can also run his precious Windows and with a little effort, Linux (and really, what is Linux without a little effort?)

Sure, you'll need a Mac if you want to run the Mac OS (legitimately). But to call it a dongle is a bit of a stretch in my opinion.

Of course, the entirety of this comment is pretty much divergent from the author's main point. So, feel free to disregard the above.

As for Freedom Zero, there are few places you'll be able to achieve that comfortably. But that's not what Apple is about, and plenty of people are happy with that, myself included.