Take vector for example, the size() function returns, guess what, the size of the vector.
So I should resort to guesswork and not even read the code, let alone hope for comments?
What if it's not actually vector that I want to use, but something that appears to be very like it, so I assume you wrote it to behave the same way, but for very good reasons, you wrote some things differently.
Suppose I want to use noCommentsBecauseYouShouldJustKnowFromTheCodeVector and call its size() function?
Tried it, it said 16 every time no matter what was in the vector - how do I know whether it's meant to return the element count or the size of the "vector" pointer in bytes? (Or some other calculation with some magnitude, such as capacity or memory usage?)
Also, what happens if the vector is null/uninitialized? Is that the same as when it's empty? For whatever language I use?
How big can its value be? (When it's valid / ever)
Can it be negative?
Are all values unambiguous?
Is it thread-safe?
Is there something else I may have called which will already contain the size value, so I can re-use it to save calling size() now?
Why am I using this vector anyway? Isn't there something better? (And if not, why not? Because there could be a really good reason, which I might not guess.)
The London 2012 Olympics has already definitvely tested all of the athletes, during the opening ceremony.
Near the end of Paul McCartney's performance of Let It Be, in the singalong "Na-na-na-nah" part, he made some subliminal audience participation requests:
"Just the men", followed by "Now just the women" - and a host of cameras trained on the athletes recorded who sang along to which section.
Maybe the LHC has emitted/will emit some sort of field that's sending these particles back in time!
It was/will be switched on next week, and so far, we've found one, but as we get closer to the time it was/will be switched on, we'll detect more and more of them.
Slashdot Mirror
Makes a change from everything they do being just Beta.
Article on NASA site: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=86353&src=iotdrss
You don't have to look at Wolfram Alpha to get the first idea about Tungsten
But Tungsten is Wolfram.
(or was)
Great story, great guys, but what about that glitch?
The super-hero's robotic arm was faulty.
That's... irony, I guess.
Proxima Centauri Might Not Be the Closest Star To Earth
Put another way, Sol Might Be the Closest Star To Earth
buildings collapse less often
Is that each?
From the sample I know of, buildings collapse either 0 or 1 times.
So what does less often mean?
How about calling it 100%Aural?
Good one - or, how about "distraction"? That would be a good one too.
You could have tried rolling a saving throw.
May be the new moderation.
This really should have been written something like:
#696969 #6A6A6A #6B6B6B #6C6C6C #6D6D6D
#6E6E6E #6F6F6F #707070 #717171 #727272
#737373 #747474 #757575 #767676 #777777
#787878 #797979 #7A7A7A #7B7B7B #7C7C7C
#7D7D7D #7E7E7E #7F7F7F #808080 #818181
#828282 #838383 #848484 #858585 #868686
#878787 #888888 #898989 #8A8A8A #8B8B8B
#8C8C8C #8D8D8D #8E8E8E #8F8F8F #909090
#919191 #929292 #939393 #949494 #959595
#969696 #979797 #989898 #999999 #9A9A9A
Take vector for example, the size() function returns, guess what, the size of the vector.
So I should resort to guesswork and not even read the code, let alone hope for comments?
What if it's not actually vector that I want to use, but something that appears to be very like it, so I assume you wrote it to behave the same way, but for very good reasons, you wrote some things differently.
Suppose I want to use noCommentsBecauseYouShouldJustKnowFromTheCodeVector and call its size() function?
Tried it, it said 16 every time no matter what was in the vector - how do I know whether it's meant to return the element count or the size of the "vector" pointer in bytes? (Or some other calculation with some magnitude, such as capacity or memory usage?)
Also, what happens if the vector is null/uninitialized? Is that the same as when it's empty? For whatever language I use?
How big can its value be? (When it's valid / ever)
Can it be negative?
Are all values unambiguous?
Is it thread-safe?
Is there something else I may have called which will already contain the size value, so I can re-use it to save calling size() now?
Why am I using this vector anyway? Isn't there something better? (And if not, why not? Because there could be a really good reason, which I might not guess.)
The London 2012 Olympics has already definitvely tested all of the athletes, during the opening ceremony.
Near the end of Paul McCartney's performance of Let It Be, in the singalong "Na-na-na-nah" part, he made some subliminal audience participation requests:
"Just the men", followed by "Now just the women" - and a host of cameras trained on the athletes recorded who sang along to which section.
Foolproof!
Is that a booby-trap?
Potentially.
"playing with lasers"
"eventually got burnt out"
This stuff writes itself.
Just the misspellings of Encyclopaedia to correct now then.
[citation needed]
Maybe it's 10 in base pi.
Now I'm thinking about how base i would work and my head is starting to explode.
All your base are...
C'mon everyone, it's Britannica, let's spell it Encyclopaedia
This is information retrieval not information dispersal
I don't see the problem...
Nobody can see my friends, because I have no friends.
C'mon, you knew that already - I'm on /.
OK, I have one friend - she's called ELIZA.
How to deliver a project that has run for ~40 weeks?
Still waiting for...
(Stupid) Useful Chat-up Lines
C'mon...
640K should be enough for anybody.
You're probably running an old version of Firefox.
You can check your version from the Help menu: "Aboot Mozilla Firefox" ;-)
Maybe the LHC has emitted/will emit some sort of field that's sending these particles back in time!
It was/will be switched on next week, and so far, we've found one, but as we get closer to the time it was/will be switched on, we'll detect more and more of them.
Which means...
FIRST POST!?