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Why MS is Not Opening More Source Code
mario_grgic writes "Apparently inappropriate code comments is one of the reasons according to this story.
I wonder what kind of things developers put in comments that would be so bad for the rest of us to see?"
Actually, the first link there isn't from Windows source code, it's from the source of a Linux USB camera driver (as you can see when you look at the parent post to it).
Well that's a little out of context, but there is a short page about "odd" comments in UNIX which includes an explaination of the abovehere.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
I think you are forgetting that MSFT stole some Quicktime code to create WMP.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
that line is used to compute a "fast inverse square root" -- google for 0x5f3759df and you'll learn a little math. [you see that number once and you remember it forever] the result is a rough hack of what the exponent should be.
-b
When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi. (Larry Wall)
For those missing the joke, the hme ethernet
interface gets its name from the `Happy Meal'
ethernet/SCSI combo card, so named because
you get both interfaces as a discount deal.
The same chipset went onboard some machines, too.
The PCI version (Happy Meal was SBus) I think
was named Fresh Choice (two trips to the ASIC
salad bar) after the valley eateries, but I
might be misremembering.
ian