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Gangnam Style Surpasses YouTube's 32-bit View Counter
First time accepted submitter neoritter writes "The Korean pop star PSY's viral music video "Gangnam Style" has reached the limit of YouTube's view counter. According to YouTube's Google+ account, "We never thought a video would be watched in numbers greater than a 32-bit integer (=2,147,483,647 views), but that was before we met PSY. 'Gangnam Style' has been viewed so many times we had to upgrade to a 64-bit integer (9,223,372,036,854,775,808)!"
Because they were following the Google C++ Style Guide?
"You should not use the unsigned integer types such as uint32_t, unless there is a valid reason such as representing a bit pattern rather than a number, or you need defined overflow modulo 2^N. In particular, do not use unsigned types to say a number will never be negative. Instead, use assertions for this."
Java doesn't have unsigned integers as a primitive type. (Speculative but I'd guess this is what's going on.)
Don't blame me, I voted for Baltar.
The song and video are a parody of the lifestyle of Koreans in the Gangnam District of Seoul.
Actually, if you combine all different versions it beats even the 64bit integer.
Techsmartly made a fancy pivot chart of it a while back:
http://techsmartly.net/freePS3...
YouTube doesn't count a hit the instant a video starts playing. They have further criteria that depend on how much of the video was played, whether or not parts were skipped, etc. Well, at least I remember reading about it sometime. It had to do with their efforts to combat click fraud and only count legitimate views.
There can be good reasons to use it but there are also a couple of reasons to avoid it.
1: overflows are "hidden", with a signed number overflow will usually* result in a nonsensical (very large negative) number, with an unsigned number overflows will usually bring you back to zero which is much less likely to be noticed
2: the rules for operations (especially comparisions) involving a mixture of signed and unsigned types are seriously counter-intuitive.
* Yes I know the C standard doesn't actually require this and modern versions of gcc are being retarded about it in some cases but for the most part it holds true
note: i'm known as plugwash most places but i screwd up registering that here somehow in the past and now can't register
Alli++
Ah, the beloved Alli, or Xenical in its prescription strength form. I've used it for a long time, and let me share with you the gory details of it's side effects that Sir AC is hinting at.
First of all, it is important to remember that Orlistat (the active ingredient of Alli and Xenical) ensures that the body's fat-digesting enzymes are unable to bind to the ingested fat. This means that if one consumes large amounts of fat, this will have to leave the body one way or another.
For example, after a nice meal at Panda Express with noodles and orange chicken, expect your anus to transform into an oil pipeline. Men: if you ever want to experience the horrors of starting your monthly period unexpected, try it. The oil will slowly leak and color your buttocks, underwear and, if you're not fast enough, pants. It has a weird orange-looking color, and a very distinctive smell.
The same will happen after eating a couple of burgers. The oily substance will start to leak withing 24 hours, and there is no way to stop it. When you give in and run to the restroom, expect your ass to transform into a vulcano, erupting vast amounts of solid-like and oily substances with orange as its primary colors. Once you get some of the oil on your clothes you can throw them away, as no matter what you try, you will not be able to remove the stench or oil.
Also, never ever, ever ever wear white clothes. You don't want to end up on the internet with orange skid marks on the back your pants.
But even worse: it will be impossible to fart. Every time you fart, you'll have an 80% of farting oil rather than the odorous reminiscences of last nights meal. It will be impossible to fart. If you do, you'll run the risk of running to the toilet like a penguin: buttcheeks held together to avoid the oil from leaking in your pants.
I once wanted to fart in my ex-girlfriend's face after she did the same to me. Unfortunately, I had a heavy meal the night before and ended up facepainting her lovely nose, lips and cheeks. After she cleaned herself up, I never saw her again.