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Why MS is Not Opening More Source Code

Posted by samzenpus on from the let-me-see-it dept.

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?"

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  1. Re:ha by RonnyJ · · Score: 4, Informative

    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).

  2. Re:Best of the 'inappropiate comments' by Zocalo · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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    UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
  3. Re:Quake III by Vengie · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

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    When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi. (Larry Wall)
  4. Re:Best of the 'inappropiate comments' by igb · · Score: 5, Informative

    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