Yeah, it might be a good action movie or whatever, but is hardly consistent with the philosophical underpinnings of the original work. That so few Star Trek fans "get" this is a bit unnerving.
I agree. They finally came up with a nice replacement for the user comments page. BTW, I turned off advertising for about 2 minutes to see what it looked like, then turned it back on. They can have their ad dollars for no more than it gets in my way.
But how would I know that was someone's idea of a joke? It's a documented function for hiding strings - it says so right in the man page. Suppose I needed to hide a string, found that, used it, hit a bug, and sent a patch to Drepper. What indication would I have that I was wasting his time with a nonsensical fix?
The legitimate, if somewhat carebearish, reason they do that, whether they know it or not, is that if someone reasonably believes you're offering legal advice, and she follows your advice and loses some legal right or money, she can sue you for legal malpractice.
IAAGeek, BIANYGeek. Random strangers are much more likely to follow my off-the-cuff technical advice than your legal advice, if for no reason but convenience: they can click or type my instructions without leaving their chair and immediately see if they worked. I have never, ever, heard of someone suing over poor (or even malicious) technical advice. Why is law different on that? Serious question.
...I am moving "off of" this grammar-school newsletter piece.
See also: idioms. No one where I live, ditch digger or professional, would raise an eyebrow at that phrase. Might I suggest you find larger grammatical fish to fry, or perhaps resolve not to get worked up over regional slang?
By supporting it, and not Theora, for video tags, they can provide a de-facto standard that F/OSS browsers can't easily copy.
I don't think Apple really wants to go down that road right now. They've cottoned to the whole "open standards" idea, inasmuch as it lets them compete against bigger players. I think they'd be more than happy to use something FOSS-friendly if it meant knocking support out from under Microsoft-specific tech like Silverlight.
Does it offer the ability to have an auto-updating word count in the status bar yet? It's absolutely essential to many people, particularly copywriters who are paid to hit a particular word count.
OK, but isn't that a little backward? I've always written my article first, then edited it to hit word count. I don't think I'd work well to say, "oh, I'm at 2800! Better wrap it up!"
Ahh, OK. I still prefer to think of them as a last line of defense in case I make a mistake elsewhere. That is, don't necessarily rely on them, but hope they catch something you otherwise might've missed.
In this example, 0 and 1 occur twice as often as any other value. The fix for this problem is to pick a threshold close to 2^31 that is a multiple of len, and keep requesting values for j until you get one less than the threshold. Then you'll get an even distribution on j %= len.
Did you actually read #3? strfry() is a joke function, an silly Easter egg that had been included in Glibc since time immemorial and unfortunately cannot be removed for fear of breaking compatibility.
Oh, really? There's no mention of that in the man page, and if it's there and documented as a working function, then it should damn well work as advertised.
Shit like that is just embarrassing. How am I supposed to advocate this stuff to my boss with a straight face? What other "in jokes" am I missing out on and accidentally relying on because no one bothered to tell me not to?
But, umm, he's right. He may have been abrupt in the way he phrased his initial response, but his reasoning is not at fault.
No, he's not. The entire point of not using assembler is to have the language do convenient stuff for you. What's more efficient, reasonable, and secure: implementing those nice functions well in one standardized library, or forcing each programmer to re-implement them - probably poorly?
memcpy for string manipulation, my ass. I thought we'd moved past that.
It doesn't work well on low-end hardware on which Windows XP will still run smoothly.
Apples and oranges. ARM is a netbook platform, not something you'd want to build a high-end gaming rig around. Ubuntu's Netbook Remix launcher is becoming popular in that space, and it's incredibly competitive there. I have an EeePC 701 that nicely runs all the apps you mention, with an attractive and convenient front-end. What's not to love?
Loading 88MB file into memory is not going to work by default anyhow, unless you set the memory limit in PHP from the default you will get out of memory errors every time. I think even a find/replace in a Windows app like Notepad or Notepad++ will "work" but it will definitely be slow. When I used to search large logs I would use some sort of file splitter and search each file itself.
And here the rest of us are grepping and sedding multi-gigabyte files without thinking twice. Seriously, what's your idea of a large file?
Does that include safe_quote_string_this_time_i_really_freaking_mean_it, or do_foo(needle, haystack) and foo_do(haystack, needle)? At least it gets namespaces after all this time, even if they're almost deliberately ugly.
As someone who has to read a lot of PDFs, I've gotten sick of reading them on the computer.
I'm sick of reading them, period. I hate PDFs, with their author-chosen fonts, non-adjustable margins, and unconfigurable page breaks. I'd much rather read something in HTML or the equivalent so that changing the font to my liking reflows the text, and I don't have to toggle between "zoomed in enough to read without a microscope" and "zoomed out enough that I'm not constantly scrolling left-to-right.
Please, kill PDFs for machine reading. They're fine for print but absolutely suck on dynamic displays.
yes, buying them for both of my sons. Buy used, the resell when done. Net result is low cost.
Yeah. When I bought that used sociology text (to fulfill the gen-ed requirements for my Comp Sci major), angels parted the clouds and played trumpets as a flock of serving virgins carried it out in a velvet-lined platinum ark.
When selling it 4 months later (in mint condition because I never actually opened it), the bookstore did me the favor of accepting it without charging me disposal fees.
But keep the books from your major. You'll like having them down the road.
I think there needs to be some kind of a tagging mechanism so that all users - authors and customers alike - can bring problem reviews to Apple's attention for consideration.
There's an app to stream local National Public Radio stations. Last time I checked, it was filled with reviews like "needs more alt rock: 1 star" or "only had people talking boring!: 1 star". I wish I could tag those "nonsensical".
I've seen plenty of reviews like "this works exactly as described - I love it!: 1 star" because the reviewer mis-selected the rating before posting their review. Maybe we could tag those "inconsistent"?
I saw a review this morning that said they'd been using it for over a month, but the app was first published three days ago. That deserves a "shill" tag.
If I were implementing the system, you'd only be able to see your own tags so that you couldn't unduly influence others with poor moderation. They'd be strictly for Apple's use in identifying bad reviews.
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Yeah, it might be a good action movie or whatever, but is hardly consistent with the philosophical underpinnings of the original work. That so few Star Trek fans "get" this is a bit unnerving.
We do get it, but we don't care.
I agree. They finally came up with a nice replacement for the user comments page. BTW, I turned off advertising for about 2 minutes to see what it looked like, then turned it back on. They can have their ad dollars for no more than it gets in my way.
But how would I know that was someone's idea of a joke? It's a documented function for hiding strings - it says so right in the man page. Suppose I needed to hide a string, found that, used it, hit a bug, and sent a patch to Drepper. What indication would I have that I was wasting his time with a nonsensical fix?
The legitimate, if somewhat carebearish, reason they do that, whether they know it or not, is that if someone reasonably believes you're offering legal advice, and she follows your advice and loses some legal right or money, she can sue you for legal malpractice.
IAAGeek, BIANYGeek. Random strangers are much more likely to follow my off-the-cuff technical advice than your legal advice, if for no reason but convenience: they can click or type my instructions without leaving their chair and immediately see if they worked. I have never, ever, heard of someone suing over poor (or even malicious) technical advice. Why is law different on that? Serious question.
Good idea!
Signed, kirk+sjrc@strauser.com.
...I am moving "off of" this grammar-school newsletter piece.
See also: idioms. No one where I live, ditch digger or professional, would raise an eyebrow at that phrase. Might I suggest you find larger grammatical fish to fry, or perhaps resolve not to get worked up over regional slang?
Of course the good ol' rot13 !
<pedant>ROT13 isn't a hash function.</pedant>
By supporting it, and not Theora, for video tags, they can provide a de-facto standard that F/OSS browsers can't easily copy.
I don't think Apple really wants to go down that road right now. They've cottoned to the whole "open standards" idea, inasmuch as it lets them compete against bigger players. I think they'd be more than happy to use something FOSS-friendly if it meant knocking support out from under Microsoft-specific tech like Silverlight.
Does it offer the ability to have an auto-updating word count in the status bar yet? It's absolutely essential to many people, particularly copywriters who are paid to hit a particular word count.
OK, but isn't that a little backward? I've always written my article first, then edited it to hit word count. I don't think I'd work well to say, "oh, I'm at 2800! Better wrap it up!"
Ahh, OK. I still prefer to think of them as a last line of defense in case I make a mistake elsewhere. That is, don't necessarily rely on them, but hope they catch something you otherwise might've missed.
Particularly #3. Someone finds a bug, submits a patch, and in return gets mocked for their effort. How great.
Side note for anyone who actually wants strfry to be statistically valid: the fix doesn't completely fix it.
Suppose that __random_r returns a value between 0 and 9, inclusive. Suppose than len is 8. In that case, j %= len maps to:
In this example, 0 and 1 occur twice as often as any other value. The fix for this problem is to pick a threshold close to 2^31 that is a multiple of len, and keep requesting values for j until you get one less than the threshold. Then you'll get an even distribution on j %= len.
Did you actually read #3? strfry() is a joke function, an silly Easter egg that had been included in Glibc since time immemorial and unfortunately cannot be removed for fear of breaking compatibility.
Oh, really? There's no mention of that in the man page, and if it's there and documented as a working function, then it should damn well work as advertised.
Shit like that is just embarrassing. How am I supposed to advocate this stuff to my boss with a straight face? What other "in jokes" am I missing out on and accidentally relying on because no one bothered to tell me not to?
But, umm, he's right. He may have been abrupt in the way he phrased his initial response, but his reasoning is not at fault.
No, he's not. The entire point of not using assembler is to have the language do convenient stuff for you. What's more efficient, reasonable, and secure: implementing those nice functions well in one standardized library, or forcing each programmer to re-implement them - probably poorly?
memcpy for string manipulation, my ass. I thought we'd moved past that.
It doesn't work well on low-end hardware on which Windows XP will still run smoothly.
Apples and oranges. ARM is a netbook platform, not something you'd want to build a high-end gaming rig around. Ubuntu's Netbook Remix launcher is becoming popular in that space, and it's incredibly competitive there. I have an EeePC 701 that nicely runs all the apps you mention, with an attractive and convenient front-end. What's not to love?
Pro-tip: When picking a similar language to demonstrate that the original isn't crazy, don't choose Perl.
Loading 88MB file into memory is not going to work by default anyhow, unless you set the memory limit in PHP from the default you will get out of memory errors every time. I think even a find/replace in a Windows app like Notepad or Notepad++ will "work" but it will definitely be slow. When I used to search large logs I would use some sort of file splitter and search each file itself.
And here the rest of us are grepping and sedding multi-gigabyte files without thinking twice. Seriously, what's your idea of a large file?
Can you blame them for trying to escape?
Python: myArray.append(myvalue)
Well, you could do something like:
and squint until it looks like list_append, but that's kinda silly. And that $myarray[]=$myvalue; syntax? That should be taken out and shot.
But that might break something that two people found convenient in 1997 and therefore can never be repudiated.
clean-up of several functions
Does that include safe_quote_string_this_time_i_really_freaking_mean_it, or do_foo(needle, haystack) and foo_do(haystack, needle)? At least it gets namespaces after all this time, even if they're almost deliberately ugly.
Anyone else remember Int 27h [nvg.org] and the magic of hooking a subroutine to make it appear like your OS was actually multitasking?
No, because two years after SideKick came out, I was preemptively multitasking on an Amiga.
Sorry, just had to get that in there.
But they still benefit from being computers and hypothetically being able to change font size intelligently.
As someone who has to read a lot of PDFs, I've gotten sick of reading them on the computer.
I'm sick of reading them, period. I hate PDFs, with their author-chosen fonts, non-adjustable margins, and unconfigurable page breaks. I'd much rather read something in HTML or the equivalent so that changing the font to my liking reflows the text, and I don't have to toggle between "zoomed in enough to read without a microscope" and "zoomed out enough that I'm not constantly scrolling left-to-right.
Please, kill PDFs for machine reading. They're fine for print but absolutely suck on dynamic displays.
yes, buying them for both of my sons. Buy used, the resell when done. Net result is low cost.
Yeah. When I bought that used sociology text (to fulfill the gen-ed requirements for my Comp Sci major), angels parted the clouds and played trumpets as a flock of serving virgins carried it out in a velvet-lined platinum ark.
When selling it 4 months later (in mint condition because I never actually opened it), the bookstore did me the favor of accepting it without charging me disposal fees.
But keep the books from your major. You'll like having them down the road.
I think there needs to be some kind of a tagging mechanism so that all users - authors and customers alike - can bring problem reviews to Apple's attention for consideration.
There's an app to stream local National Public Radio stations. Last time I checked, it was filled with reviews like "needs more alt rock: 1 star" or "only had people talking boring!: 1 star". I wish I could tag those "nonsensical".
I've seen plenty of reviews like "this works exactly as described - I love it!: 1 star" because the reviewer mis-selected the rating before posting their review. Maybe we could tag those "inconsistent"?
I saw a review this morning that said they'd been using it for over a month, but the app was first published three days ago. That deserves a "shill" tag.
If I were implementing the system, you'd only be able to see your own tags so that you couldn't unduly influence others with poor moderation. They'd be strictly for Apple's use in identifying bad reviews.