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  1. Pascal vs. C on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Read Code? · · Score: 1

    The first language with pointers and structures that I learned was Pascal, back in 1984. To dereference a pointer and access a structure it's:

    pointer^.member

    My teacher pronounced that as "pointer up dot member".

    To this day when reading C/C++ code I (internally) say that for

    pointer->member

    I don't know what I'd say out loud today if I had to talk about it. I don't work in C/C++ much.

  2. Re:waiting patiently ... on YouTube Is Looking for Volunteers To Improve Its Site (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Standing in the rain
    With his head held low
    Couldn't get any mod points
    Couldn't post too slow

    Heard the roar of the trolls
    He could picture the scene
    Set his threshold to -1
    And they filled his screen

    Etc...

  3. Re:There's a free iPhone app that can do that on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Insults No Developer Wants To Hear? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, accidental downmod. Posting to undo.

  4. Re:As if we trust the real pirates... on Patch Tuesday Brought Windows 10 Ad Generator · · Score: 1

    I was willing to trust the updates until the Windows 10 'upgrade' crap started being pushed out. Now I at least skim every one before installing.

  5. Re:Youtube removed my animated film on YouTube Promises Changes To Copyright Claim Policy (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    How did you receive the takedown notice? If by email, wouldn't that be the account used to upload the video, and wouldn't you then be able to reset the password? (I don't have a Youtube account, so if things don't work that way, sorry)

  6. Re:No shit. This is why we all have our "lucky" D2 on Experimental Study of 29 Polyhedral Dice Using Rolling Machine, OpenCV Analysis (markfickett.com) · · Score: 2

    There were d100s made, and they were almost round and too difficult to use practically.

  7. Re:Q: heat on The Bizarre Reactor Scientists Hope Will Save Fusion Research (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3, Funny

    And if it melts down, falls over, and sinks into the swamp, we'll just build another, which will be the strongest reactor in all the lands.

  8. courses on Ask Slashdot: Worthwhile Security Training Courses? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I took the SANS Intrusion Detection and Hacker Exploits courses 10+ years ago and they were very good. It was a long time ago, though, and I don't know what the courses are like now.

  9. Speak for yourself on Microsoft Now Uses Windows 10's Start Menu To Display Ads (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We've all become used to the idea of ads online

    It's pretty obvious that many of us are not used to the idea, and block them completely.

  10. Re:This is why I don't go to movie theatres on British Movie Theater Staff To Wear Night-Vision Goggles To Combat Movie Piracy · · Score: 1

    We have staff on extra alert for that. James Bond is a big risk and we will be working with cinema operators and the distributors making sure we will keep that as tight as possible.

    If SMERSH and SPECTRE couldn't deal with Bond, how are these bozos going to accomplish anything?

  11. Re:Electronics used to be taught in high-schools on Obama Invites Texas Teen To White House After "Bomb" Clock Incident At School · · Score: 1

    While I was growing up in the 70s, I knocked a tooth out of a kid who was blowing up frogs with firecrackers.

    But yeah, my friends and I carried pocket knives to school from about 2nd grade onward, and we wandered the post-apocalyptic wasteland of the old clay quarry without getting murdered, etc. and our parents and schools didn't worry too much.

  12. Re:Legacy system based on Fox DB on What's the Oldest Technology You've Used In a Production Environment? · · Score: 1

    My company still runs a large FoxPro application for its business. It started as dBase II, then moved to FoxBase, then eventually to Visual FoxPro. Development started in 1986, and is ongoing for new features, and there's still code (some of which I wrote) from 1987 running.

  13. Re:What Year? on Woz To Be Immortalized In Wax · · Score: 1

    When we wax Woz, we will wonder which was waxed.

  14. Re:One quote from the article that is nice... on Prospects and Limits For the LHC's Capabilities To Test String Theory · · Score: 1

    Perhaps he was dictating?

  15. Re:Alternate story title on Creationists Manipulating Search Results · · Score: 1

    It hurts less if you take them out first.

  16. Re:Nothign new here on Recruiters Use 'Digital Native' As Code For 'No Old Folks' · · Score: 2

    Unless you happen to be 49 years old...

  17. Re:"lava tubes" on Giant Lava Tubes Possible On the Moon · · Score: 1

    My first thought was the moon worms from Major Matt Mason stories/toys of the late 60s/early 70s.

    Ah, ok:

    There was also a Big Little Book, Moon Mission written by George S Elrick and illustrated by Dan Spiegle published in 1968 that had the astronaut and his friends confront both giant rabbits and huge burrowing worms on the moon.

    I had the book and a couple of the astronaut toys. I didn't remember the rabbits until reading this...

  18. Re:Not sure about that on Speaking a Second Language May Change How You See the World · · Score: 1

    A classic example is let/lassen. "Ich lasse mein Haar schneiden" doesn't literally mean "l let my hair be cut", although presumably it was a voluntary thing. However, the more precise translation would be "I have my hair cut", meaning, effectively that instead of permitting it to be done, I've ordered it to be done.

    I noticed this while learning German as well, but I also noticed that you can see an echo of the German usage in programming/mathematics: LET X = 1, for example.

  19. Re: ECC Memory on Exploiting the DRAM Rowhammer Bug To Gain Kernel Privileges · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now that's insideous!

    It takes 2 bit changes to change 'i' to 'e', so your problems are worse than you thought...

  20. Re:Great set up for a scifi on Mysterious Martian Plumes Discovered By Amateur Astronomers · · Score: 1

    Our sterilization technology is known to be imperfect.

    Don't let NOMAD hear you say that.

  21. Re:Give me a break on Building the Developer's Dream Keyboard · · Score: 1

    You obviously meant C-b, C-n, C-p, C-f.

  22. Re:Hit me with your pet shark on Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: The Science of Misheard Song Lyrics · · Score: 1

    For me, Stevie Nicks with her "just like the wide ranger" (white-winged dove). That song has some others, but I don't remember them now.

  23. Re:def lep/ozzy on Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: The Science of Misheard Song Lyrics · · Score: 1

    For years I interpreted that as "Awesome, shoot your own way".

  24. Re:Omega? on NetHack: Still One of the Greatest Games Ever Written · · Score: 1

    Omega and Larn were fun, too.

  25. Re:Month of truth, surely? on The Moment of Truth For BICEP2 · · Score: 1

    On the plus side, they may now have experimental proof of the Milky Way...