No kidding. I remember one time I was working on a project for provisioning wireless telecom switches. My part of the project was something very much like MQSeries. I stressed to my manager that we should prototype the parts that we had never done before. All went well until she went to a meeting with some other managers at the company. They belittled her in front of our VP for allowing the developers to "waste time" like that. She came back from the meeting literally shaking with rage. I was nearly fired on the spot. Never mind that we were ahead of schedule at the time.
The Loomis Laboratory of Physics at the University of Illinois is named after an F.W. Loomis. They have a nice bio there. He also went to an ivy-league school, also worked for the Army Ordanance Dept in WW1, and also worked for the MIT Radiation Laboratory in WW2. Wierd. I wonder if they were related?
Yeah I got that from other replies you made. But you do want the check return values from most things, even the standard library functions. The return value is usually zero on success and some int code for an error otherwise. If there's a non-zero result you usually want to call perror or something to log it.
It's just the difference between quality code and the rest. You still might want to ignore the return value, but it should be a conscious decision. Lint-like tools just help that.
Your information is wrong about the north tower tape. That tape was shown about 3 to 4 hours later after the towers had collapsed (shortly after noon). I spent most of that day watching TV and I do remember it.
I also remember exactly what I was doing when the Challenger went up. I had my back to the TV (with the sound off for some reason) while I was working on my fluid dynamics homework. I missed the whole thing.
When you use a GPL library all you have to do is list their (it is theirs, you don't own it) copywrite, provide a copy of the library source code (or a valid URL), and promote any changes you make to the library back to the owners.
You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing about your code if you don't want to.
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I was going to criticize you for an ad hominem attack, but you're probably too stupid to get it.
Mensa must have lowered it's standards.
Pot, kettle, black.
No kidding. I remember one time I was working on a project for provisioning wireless telecom switches. My part of the project was something very much like MQSeries. I stressed to my manager that we should prototype the parts that we had never done before. All went well until she went to a meeting with some other managers at the company. They belittled her in front of our VP for allowing the developers to "waste time" like that. She came back from the meeting literally shaking with rage. I was nearly fired on the spot. Never mind that we were ahead of schedule at the time.
Are you a troll or just a moron?
If the rate of progress is really accelerating at an "exponential rate", why haven't people gone farther than the moon in the last thirty years or so?
How do you explain the dark ages?
It's just the difference between quality code and the rest. You still might want to ignore the return value, but it should be a conscious decision. Lint-like tools just help that.
castind [sic] the return of every void function
Um, void functions don't return anything. A simple return will suffice.
Am i really going to have to step through tens of thousands of lines of code
Yes, if you have crap that is returning something in void functions.
If you want to know some of the things lint can look for that are perfectly legal code constructs look at this list.
Compiling is not the same as error analysis.
Reminding people about karma whoring is karma whoring ;-)
Your information is wrong about the north tower tape. That tape was shown about 3 to 4 hours later after the towers had collapsed (shortly after noon). I spent most of that day watching TV and I do remember it.
I also remember exactly what I was doing when the Challenger went up. I had my back to the TV (with the sound off for some reason) while I was working on my fluid dynamics homework. I missed the whole thing.
Do those free viewers work on a free OS?
When you use a GPL library all you have to do is list their (it is theirs, you don't own it) copywrite, provide a copy of the library source code (or a valid URL), and promote any changes you make to the library back to the owners.
You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing about your code if you don't want to.
Are you stupid enough to think that was funny? Most trolls at least pretend to be intelligent.
What a classic troll. The only people that really recognize it probably agree with him :-).