Well, at risk of starting a flame war, I think tabs are the right choice. With tabs, people can set the tab size in their editor to be whatever they are comfortable with. Also, because spaces are disallowed, whatever they choose will look right. Thus, all the classic indentation problems vanish.
You're right, though not because of the 64-bit thing. Going 64 bit actually has a small performance penalty. But in 64-bit mode, Athlon64 has twice as many registers, and registers are the fastest storage there is (kind of like an L0 cache), so doubling that more than makes up for the 64-bit penalty.
I disagree. There will still be long-haired super cool geniuses. It's just that they will have to be geniuses at code quality, not quantity. They will be the ones with a sixth sense that tells them "if you write your code this way, even if it's correct now, it will cause problems later". They'll be the ones that know how to recognize the significance of each bug, and not just fix it, but prevent that entire class of bugs from ever happening again.
These kinds of skills are not left-brain logical skills. They require an intuitive sense of human psychology in order to know how future programmers will interact with the code. I think this is (currently) a rare skill indeed. Once customers start demanding quality from their software, this skill will be in demand.
That depends on your definition of "donating". I never said anything about ionic compounds. You say "share", I say "donate", let's call the whole thing off.
The two are totally different. In IA-32e, the new 8-bit registers are called r8l through r15l. In AMD64, they were called r8b through r15b. Clearly, Intel is ushering in a new and exciting wave of computing technology.
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I have no idea what you just said. Are you complaining about a weakness in your editor?
What is the downside of using tabs exclusively?
I think this is an improvement. It will prevent subtle bugs.
Are you serious? Welcome back to the 1970s, folks.
If only there were some way to answer that question by going to some kind of "web site" or something.
By the way, what do you do when hardware changes? Someone pops in a new network card; how does your quick-boot scheme deal with it?
Yes. I mean, no.
Like other forms of carbon, it's probably flammable.
Let's start RIAA lawsuit insurance!
You're right, though not because of the 64-bit thing. Going 64 bit actually has a small performance penalty. But in 64-bit mode, Athlon64 has twice as many registers, and registers are the fastest storage there is (kind of like an L0 cache), so doubling that more than makes up for the 64-bit penalty.
These kinds of skills are not left-brain logical skills. They require an intuitive sense of human psychology in order to know how future programmers will interact with the code. I think this is (currently) a rare skill indeed. Once customers start demanding quality from their software, this skill will be in demand.
Incidentally, the expression goes "the proof of the pudding is in the eating".
Napoleon examined the pyramids with subatomic "photon" particles back in 1799.
That depends on your definition of "donating". I never said anything about ionic compounds. You say "share", I say "donate", let's call the whole thing off.
I think the naming depends on which radical donates the electron, but I'm not a chemist.
True. It's right for totally unrelated reasons.
Uh, that's the point, chief.
Farther galaxies are not younger than nearer ones. They just look younger because the light from them has been travelling for so long.
Shit, they probably never thought of that.
Strictly speaking, you don't even need to flip it if you use this technique.
Right. Because the caliber of /. moderators used to be soooo much higher.
The two are totally different. In IA-32e, the new 8-bit registers are called r8l through r15l. In AMD64, they were called r8b through r15b. Clearly, Intel is ushering in a new and exciting wave of computing technology.
It's already there.