Comment seen in someone else's code just before a block of especially hairy code which, it turned out, used pow() to determine which bits were set in a 16 bit int which was used to hold flags used to determine if certain data was being used. It looked sort of like:
I was in the US Army when that came out and I knew every one of the people in that military outfit. The hardcore 1st. Sgt., the loud guy who lost it under pressure, the quiet guy who never lost it, the gunners, all of them.
But I knew a guy who did that. Ya see, he came home one night, drunk, and the power was out. But he had to piss. So he went into the bathroom. Lights were out. So he used the cigarette lighter to provide light so he could aim. Then he grabbed his willy so that he could piss. He grabbed it with the hand holding the lit cigarette lighter.
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What I do mostly is I'm a communications channel. I'm one of a couple of central points for discussions. I have all the patches come to me, though I have sub-lieutenants doing the programming work. I'm a meeting point, rather than a software engineer.
I don't do much programming anymore.
Not an uncommon occurrence, by the way. I am no longer surprised by the number of people I meet who have no idea of how to do the basic maintenance on their car, or even what maintenance is required.
I know people who've had to buy new engines because they didn't know that they had to check the oil, and didn't realize that the little "oil pressure" light on the dash meant that oil pressure was low. Or that the light could fail.
Why should we (or Microsoft) expect computer users to be any more knowledgeable about computers than they are about cars?
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USistanian?
you sheepshagger! Your type really makes me puke! You snotty, malodourous, perverts!
USian: 5 chars
American: 8 chars
It's a US based website, run by people in the US, and we all know that, from a USian pov, the rest of the world doesn't matter.
never spent much time at places like kuro5hin.
Most MoBos support that.
Uller Uprising by H Beam Piper.
And use a good lock, not one that someone can get through with bolt-cutters in about 3 seconds.
This was on an embedded system where using one 16 bit int instead of 16 8-bit chars to hold the flags resulted in a vital savings of memory.
gives it more of a 40's noirish feel. I also like the director's cut. They really are two different movies.
One of the best hard sf books ever, with a great ending.
I was in the US Army when that came out and I knew every one of the people in that military outfit. The hardcore 1st. Sgt., the loud guy who lost it under pressure, the quiet guy who never lost it, the gunners, all of them.
That is, if the price/share is <$1 for >30 days, it gets delisted.
How about this?
"Doesn't Move" in Spanish. May be apocryphal.
He was very drunk...
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was always my response to that one.
Personal Software Process, devised by the SEI TSP team at CMU.
In Austin. I took the SEI:PSP course there once.
I know people who've had to buy new engines because they didn't know that they had to check the oil, and didn't realize that the little "oil pressure" light on the dash meant that oil pressure was low. Or that the light could fail.
Why should we (or Microsoft) expect computer users to be any more knowledgeable about computers than they are about cars?
Ummm, yeah. If you find tech equipment that sexy, then you're probably not getting laid that often.
Several women have recently informed me that I'm not nearly as creepy as I used to be!
Maybe it's the leading edge of a whole, new category of consumer devices! The single purpose device that only does one thing, but does it well!