Tarjan's Data Structures book looks like it has potential, but seems focused on network algorithms, which are unlikely to be applicable to the kernel programming I do.
WTF? People who try to move cleverness in low-level critical code should be shot. Look, there's a time and a place for everything, but this is the wrong approach for the problemspace you're working in. You didn't say which kernel you're working with, but odds are extremely good that it already comes with a set of pre-defined macros or functions for handling data structures. Use them. They're much better tested and understood than the stuff you want to play with, and much less likely to make your codevelopers hate you.
I don't want to be a stick in the mud, but seriously, this just isn't the place to start experimenting.
SourceForge doesn't use Mailman - as an MTA. Instead, Mailman re-sends messages using their main MTA, probably Sendmail or Postfix (I'm too lazy to look). In other words, Mailman never connects directly to the GMail servers, so I'd be extremely hesitant to blame it.
He'd rather be coding or debugging than getting involved in legal debate.
...whether or not the legal debate directly affects him. See also: BitKeeper. He wasn't interested in the silly licensing issues until the rug got jerked out from underneath all the kernel developers.
I'm trying to think of funny jokes about the types of bugs you find on a corpse, but they just aren't coming. In seriousness, though, what kind of bugs do the remaining 4,000 comprise? Are these along the lines of translation errors in i18n man pages, or kernel dumps on SCSI RAID systems?
Then our primary disagreement would be that proponents of global warming are considered intellectuals... I don't think that is the case.
Don't you really? Whether they really are or not, it certainly seems to me as though that's how the debate has been framed: effete intellectuals pushing an anti-capitalist agenda versus knuckle-dragging red staters who never graduated elementary school. I've been talking about the perception of the issues, not necessarily their reality.
If you modify someone elses Work of Art (i.e. creating your own work based on the original), you need her permission.
I agree with the rest of your post, but this part is wrong. You can legally fold, spindle, and mutilate any copy of something you own (subject to any other contracts that may limit you) without asking permission of the author. Copyright is just that: the right to copy. It says nothing about the right to modify.
Publicly traded companies are obliged to protect the investments of their shareholders. If Wal-Mart refuse to stock products that their customers clearly demand, they are depriving themselves and their shareholders of revenue.
Wal-Mart's stated reason is that they don't want their suppliers to let Wal-Mart's competitors undercut them. Although we can debate whether that's a legally or morally acceptable thing to do, it sounds like a pretty legitimate financial decision.
Sometimes the most economical action is the one that costs you money in the short term.
Actually, I lost the exact code I sent out, but here's the original template I wrote. The Python program I wrote when my youngest daughter was born actually compiled and ran.
---- baby.c ---- /* This code is distributable under the terms of the GPL. However, I * * retain full rights to its output for up to eighteen years. */
I use my "Foes" list to manage the people who've established a pattern of saying things far beyond my threshold of tolerable stupidity.
Erm, did you happen to read the example I gave of people I've blacklisted? From my journal entry:
As for me I think the days of the peaceful liberals are over. It's time we adopted the republitard tactics. Yes that means dragging them behind cars and crucifiying them alongside the highways.
I don't mean to censor people that I disagree with, but people who fall so far into outlandish kookery that there's no hope for having rational conversation with them.
Perhaps I've assumed too much about you.
I think you have, even as far as assuming that I'm a "proponent of global warming". I believe that it's real based on the scientific studies I've seen, but I'm not particularly alarmist about it. My post was more along the lines of, "hey, you guys, if you want us to go along with you then you have to stop doing things like this".
Your over-sensitivity is silly. I'm an RMS fanboy; I've traded emails with him on numerous occasions, and he even congratulated me on writing my daughter's birth announcement in C and GPLing it. Still, RMS is the archetype of the smelly hippie hacker. That's a factual observation and not some random insult.
In my junior year of comp sci undergrad, I took a class with my friend (hi, Aaron!) that required us to write a lot of programs. We usually talked about the projects in detail, figured out the best way to solve them, then went off and separately implemented those solutions.
One assignment was the typical "you have ten telephone lines and five operators..." sort of problem. We hashed out our strategy as usual, sat down at our respective computers, and typed out the exact same programs. I mean it. Line-for-line identical. Since we both pulled variable names out of the assignment text ("int telephonelines = 10; int operators = 5;", etc.), we'd evolved the same formatting style from years of working together, and we were implementing the same relatively short algorithm, our answers were perfect matches.
Fortunately, our professor was a good guy and believed our convincingly dumb-struck expressions when he told us what he'd discovered. We were also both able to explain every step of the algorithm and why we'd chosen it, and we all had a good laugh about it afterward.
I know that's a bit different than a kid turning in your Wikipedia entry for credit, but remember that strange things do happen sometimes, and not every case of obviously blatant cheating turns out to be legitimate.
Let me simplify your stance: nothing is better than something with a few restrictions. Face it, if you want digital music that you aren't just renting, you will have some form of DRM.
I own about 12 gigs of infection-free OGGs that I ripped from my personal CD collection. The real choice is whether you want DRM at all or not. I don't.
I've always wondered at people who bash the iTunes DRM since it is actually pretty nice to the user (as you mentioned).
Let me simplify our stance: a punch in the nuts is probably less painful than a kick in the nuts, but I'd rather not have either of them. Apple's restrictions management isn't as bad as some others, but many of us see any at all as too much.
Yeah? Where at? My wife's from Buffalo, and although we don't go too far east in the state, we meander that way a bit.
What Nebraska's got that would get to me is wind.
Well, that and the -10 temperatures (before wind chill). I'll never understand 'til my dying days, though, how it knows what time I ride to and from work so as to give me a headwind both ways. Oh, how I wish I was joking.
I still have a car - it's hard to pick up the kids from school on a 21-speed and Nebraska winters get a little cool - but riding past a line at a gas station brings a certain schadenfreude that just can't be beat.
I think I'll try to deduct it on my taxes as a health care device.
Why yes, I am a tree hugging, bicycle rider who doesn't even own a car. How much am I going to get sued for; for my increased CO2 output while riding?
I bought a bike to ride to work this summer, not because I want to save the world, but because I'd rather give $100 to Schwinn than $50 to Mobil. Can I sign up for the "Right Thing For The Wrong Reason" discount?
...but automakers have been doing all they can to avoid complying with legislation already passed in California that restricts emissions.
Sounds like a governmental problem to me. If the manufacturers are avoiding the limits by legal means, then the legislature screwed up. If they're avoiding the limits by illegal means, then law enforcement has screwed up. Either way, it appears to be easier for California to sue someone than to admit that their lawmakers and/or cops are ineffectual.
Congratulations, jackass: you just gave the largest industrial manufacturers in the world every reason to spend billions to convince everyone that global warming doesn't exist. Think the anti-intellectual movement is bad now? Wait until GM's "Chicken Little" series of advertisements encourages SUV owners to run over anyone carrying a book.
Un-frickin'-believable. If you thought major corporations were bad before, see what happens when you give them an enormous financial incentive to be even worse.
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WTF? People who try to move cleverness in low-level critical code should be shot. Look, there's a time and a place for everything, but this is the wrong approach for the problemspace you're working in. You didn't say which kernel you're working with, but odds are extremely good that it already comes with a set of pre-defined macros or functions for handling data structures. Use them. They're much better tested and understood than the stuff you want to play with, and much less likely to make your codevelopers hate you.
I don't want to be a stick in the mud, but seriously, this just isn't the place to start experimenting.
SourceForge doesn't use Mailman - as an MTA. Instead, Mailman re-sends messages using their main MTA, probably Sendmail or Postfix (I'm too lazy to look). In other words, Mailman never connects directly to the GMail servers, so I'd be extremely hesitant to blame it.
<malcolm in the middle>Why must you destroy everything I love?</malcolm in the middle>
Come to think of it, most of my best quotes are from that show.
My mama always told me to eat my vegetables. What exactly did your mama do for a living?
What? You think they'd have a fixed buyoff point? That should be
The higher the donation, the cheaper the hammer.
...whether or not the legal debate directly affects him. See also: BitKeeper. He wasn't interested in the silly licensing issues until the rug got jerked out from underneath all the kernel developers.
I'm trying to think of funny jokes about the types of bugs you find on a corpse, but they just aren't coming. In seriousness, though, what kind of bugs do the remaining 4,000 comprise? Are these along the lines of translation errors in i18n man pages, or kernel dumps on SCSI RAID systems?
P.S. FreeBSD for the win.
Don't you really? Whether they really are or not, it certainly seems to me as though that's how the debate has been framed: effete intellectuals pushing an anti-capitalist agenda versus knuckle-dragging red staters who never graduated elementary school. I've been talking about the perception of the issues, not necessarily their reality.
I agree with the rest of your post, but this part is wrong. You can legally fold, spindle, and mutilate any copy of something you own (subject to any other contracts that may limit you) without asking permission of the author. Copyright is just that: the right to copy. It says nothing about the right to modify.
Wal-Mart's stated reason is that they don't want their suppliers to let Wal-Mart's competitors undercut them. Although we can debate whether that's a legally or morally acceptable thing to do, it sounds like a pretty legitimate financial decision.
Sometimes the most economical action is the one that costs you money in the short term.
I accept your challenge.
Actually, I lost the exact code I sent out, but here's the original template I wrote. The Python program I wrote when my youngest daughter was born actually compiled and ran.
/* Ouch, that hurt */ /* Ounces */
---- baby.c ----
/* This code is distributable under the terms of the GPL. However, I *
* retain full rights to its output for up to eighteen years. */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
void main()
{
void *a = malloc((size_t) weight);
sleep(270 * 24 * 60 * 60);
if (fork())
{
free(a);
my.weight -= 20;
wait();
}
else
{
my.length = 18; /* Inches */
my.weight = 101;
printf("Hello, world!\n");
}
}
--------
Erm, did you happen to read the example I gave of people I've blacklisted? From my journal entry:
I don't mean to censor people that I disagree with, but people who fall so far into outlandish kookery that there's no hope for having rational conversation with them.
I think you have, even as far as assuming that I'm a "proponent of global warming". I believe that it's real based on the scientific studies I've seen, but I'm not particularly alarmist about it. My post was more along the lines of, "hey, you guys, if you want us to go along with you then you have to stop doing things like this".
Your over-sensitivity is silly. I'm an RMS fanboy; I've traded emails with him on numerous occasions, and he even congratulated me on writing my daughter's birth announcement in C and GPLing it. Still, RMS is the archetype of the smelly hippie hacker. That's a factual observation and not some random insult.
Cheaters never do.
In my junior year of comp sci undergrad, I took a class with my friend (hi, Aaron!) that required us to write a lot of programs. We usually talked about the projects in detail, figured out the best way to solve them, then went off and separately implemented those solutions.
One assignment was the typical "you have ten telephone lines and five operators..." sort of problem. We hashed out our strategy as usual, sat down at our respective computers, and typed out the exact same programs. I mean it. Line-for-line identical. Since we both pulled variable names out of the assignment text ("int telephonelines = 10; int operators = 5;", etc.), we'd evolved the same formatting style from years of working together, and we were implementing the same relatively short algorithm, our answers were perfect matches.
Fortunately, our professor was a good guy and believed our convincingly dumb-struck expressions when he told us what he'd discovered. We were also both able to explain every step of the algorithm and why we'd chosen it, and we all had a good laugh about it afterward.
I know that's a bit different than a kid turning in your Wikipedia entry for credit, but remember that strange things do happen sometimes, and not every case of obviously blatant cheating turns out to be legitimate.
I own about 12 gigs of infection-free OGGs that I ripped from my personal CD collection. The real choice is whether you want DRM at all or not. I don't.
Let me simplify our stance: a punch in the nuts is probably less painful than a kick in the nuts, but I'd rather not have either of them. Apple's restrictions management isn't as bad as some others, but many of us see any at all as too much.
Since about ten years ago, when it was presented to the average citizen as the latest fad that eggheads were getting worked up about.
Um, why?
Yeah? Where at? My wife's from Buffalo, and although we don't go too far east in the state, we meander that way a bit.
Well, that and the -10 temperatures (before wind chill). I'll never understand 'til my dying days, though, how it knows what time I ride to and from work so as to give me a headwind both ways. Oh, how I wish I was joking.
I think I'll try to deduct it on my taxes as a health care device.
I bought a bike to ride to work this summer, not because I want to save the world, but because I'd rather give $100 to Schwinn than $50 to Mobil. Can I sign up for the "Right Thing For The Wrong Reason" discount?
Sounds like a governmental problem to me. If the manufacturers are avoiding the limits by legal means, then the legislature screwed up. If they're avoiding the limits by illegal means, then law enforcement has screwed up. Either way, it appears to be easier for California to sue someone than to admit that their lawmakers and/or cops are ineffectual.
Congratulations, jackass: you just gave the largest industrial manufacturers in the world every reason to spend billions to convince everyone that global warming doesn't exist. Think the anti-intellectual movement is bad now? Wait until GM's "Chicken Little" series of advertisements encourages SUV owners to run over anyone carrying a book.
Un-frickin'-believable. If you thought major corporations were bad before, see what happens when you give them an enormous financial incentive to be even worse.
That'd be a much stronger curse if more Slashdotters were able to reproduce.