programs in C++ could be simultaneously elegant... and efficient for systems programming... Obviously, not every program can be both and many are neither
Huh? The People's Republic of Montgomery County is conservative? The District is Conservative? Arlington? You have to get out to Loudon and western Fairfax to find conservative.
Not always. Or, at least, not always clearly. Explaining that you're extracting the state of a bit is much clearer than a simple, unadorned, "if(pow(...)>256)"
Partly because the comments start out as the design, to which I then add code.
I also comment obsessively because I want to be able to come back to the code a year later and know, quickly, what I did and why I did it.
Many years ago I was porting someone else's C code from 16 bit to 32 bit and came across "//Why did I do this?" at the top of a couple hundred lines of uncommented code that had multiple embedded while anf for loops, with a pow() and a couple of sizeof()'s in there. I had to print it out and trace it by hand to figure out what he'd done, and why. Took awhile.
Too many comments can be ignored, too few can give you heartburn.
They get curious. Maybe you're sending corporate info to your broker. Or the competition. Maybe you work for a financial institution that's required to save everything, in readable format. (In which case, you may be in violation of the law by encrypting.) Maybe you work for a Defense or Intelligence contractor. Regardless, they don't know what you're sending if you encrypt. What they do know is that you're trying to do something covert using their resources.
But you're correct, only the truly paranoid will put a keylogger on. Most employers will just fire you.
Happened to me, too. The whole cyberpunk thing, mostly, passed me by. Mona Lisa Overdrive, The Difference Engine, and Snow Crash were the only ones in that genre that I liked, and I haven't reread them in years.
Cryptonomicron is a great book, until the last 10 pages or so. Is that cyberpunk?
Dear cts idiot, why not? Does not every infantry use standard tactics? Does not the US military use infantry tactics against other countries infantries that those countries use against the US? Why would cyber war be any different? Attack/defense. Both sides using similar tactics and strategies.
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IIRC, the first book of that series made it pretty clear that the human lensmen were being created/bred by the aliens.
I, personally, intend to try for the ".nsfw" domain.
programs in C++ could be simultaneously elegant ... and efficient for systems programming... Obviously, not every program can be both and many are neither
Many are neither. Ain't that the truth.
Huh? The People's Republic of Montgomery County is conservative? The District is Conservative? Arlington? You have to get out to Loudon and western Fairfax to find conservative.
Air quotes. Someone doesn't believe the hype...
After I figured out what it was doing.
Not always. Or, at least, not always clearly. Explaining that you're extracting the state of a bit is much clearer than a simple, unadorned, "if(pow(...)>256)"
I also comment obsessively because I want to be able to come back to the code a year later and know, quickly, what I did and why I did it.
Many years ago I was porting someone else's C code from 16 bit to 32 bit and came across "//Why did I do this?" at the top of a couple hundred lines of uncommented code that had multiple embedded while anf for loops, with a pow() and a couple of sizeof()'s in there. I had to print it out and trace it by hand to figure out what he'd done, and why. Took awhile.
Too many comments can be ignored, too few can give you heartburn.
I did once write a program in hexadecimal, for an embedded system.
I was able to follow that, and it's been decades since I had to use x86 assembler.
But now it appears that Ballard, and the Navy, are admitting it.
That's the date that sets the priority. The date filed.
But you're correct, only the truly paranoid will put a keylogger on. Most employers will just fire you.
the keylogger on your work box?
A gallon of gasoline and a match.
Cryptonomicron is a great book, until the last 10 pages or so. Is that cyberpunk?
Dear cts idiot, why not? Does not every infantry use standard tactics? Does not the US military use infantry tactics against other countries infantries that those countries use against the US? Why would cyber war be any different? Attack/defense. Both sides using similar tactics and strategies.
So doing that on entry into the UK might be a bad idea.
Penguinicity!
We're so crazy!
Smells pretty shitty to me...
Tibet has always been part of China. Just as Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
Which still leaves quite a bit of recoverable data on the parts that the rounds didn't go through.
Whenever you're going on solar, you throw a switch that cuts off mains and cuts in the solar (or whatever).
Using this for this. Would make it titillating.