I'm seriously considering blocking CmdrTaco from the list of people whose stories I see. If you look back over the list of duplicates, nearly all of them are Taco's.
Psssst, Taco. A hint for ya: just because you started the site doesn't absolve you of the duty of looking at it once in a while. Say, before you click "Submit."
One of the rare funny scenes in this movie is when an election for sheriff is being held. (This is the New York City of Tammany Hall, remember.) They show gang members raiding bars, workhouses, and tenements to round up anybody who can walk, and send them down to vote. Then they grab them on the way out of the voting hall, hustle them down the street to the barbershop, clean them up so they look different, and send them back to the voting hall.
One old guy complains how "they done already bought me out, and I already voted. Twice!" And
Leo DiCaprio's character goes, "Twice? You call that doing your civic duty? Get back in there and keep voting!"
The next scene was rather insightful, I thought. Cut to Tammany Hall. A clerk walks up to "Boss" Tweed:
Clerk: Boss, they've won.
Tweed: Keep counting.
Clerk: They've won by 3000 more votes than there
are voters, sir.
Tweed: How many times have I told you? It's not the voters that decide the election, it's the counters. Keep counting!
will start a surprisingly friendly hierarchical help menu on "topic". Or don't specify a topic and just wander around the help tree.
Just as "man man" is a useful command to give to Unix newbies, "HELP HELP" is a good starting point for VMS. My first networked machine was a VMS. When I finally moved to Unix, I was so diappointed in the man pages. "You have to type the whole name of the topic? It can't figure it out? Sheesh..."
Like the tagline goes: VMS is a text-based adventure game. If you win, you get to use Unix.
For the standard lazy/. fucker who won't read the article, he's not doing that because of some weird fetish. It's SOP in Antarctica; the article only mentions it to point out that the weight load on the bike will increase with time (like every other Antarctic team has had to deal with).
Er, no, wait... he's consuming the food he's carrying, so weight load should remain more or less constant. Okay, I don't know why the article bothers to mention it.
Riding a bike in subzero temperatures in constant danger of losing your life sure beats my job.
Perhaps you should consider skydiving. Unlike every other sport I can think of, where you die only when something goes awry, in skydiving your death is guaranteed the instant you jump out the door -- unless you do something to change your situation. Any sport where you die by default every time you play, and it's up to you to fix that... yeah.
The version of GCC that ships with OS X has been heavily hacked on to make it work better for that operating system. One of the things Apple added was a simple implementation of PCH.
Other companies have done the same thing, many times. One of the customized versions of GCC that Cygnus did for a customer had a (simple) PCH in it, too.
The version being checked in to GCC is the result of all these different implementations coming together.
You don't really want that kind of thing done in the parser, because your refactorer (or whatever) would then have to handle the possibility of incorrect code. The parser is handling syntax (mostly), remember; semantic correctness is checked later.
You want GCC to parse the code, check the code, and then do something other than generate assembly. To some extent that's being done already (there are command-line options to dump various representations of the source, e.g., -fdump-translation-unit).
Also, the back-end (code generation) is seperate from the front end (language handling), so if you were to implement a back-end whose "assembly language" output was actually, say, XML, then you would have a C-to-XML, C++-to-XML, Java-to-XML, FORTRAN-to-XML, ObjectiveC-to-XML, and whatever-else-I'm-missing-to-XML converter. Dunno why you'd want such a thing, but you could probably build some kind of program database out of it (which is what IDEs use to do things like function name completion when typing code).
All of which is independent of the front-end parser.
It's not only a useless phrase, it's actually actively harmful. It leads people to believe that it's a possible or desirable thing.
This guy said it best:
The idea that an arbitrary naive human should be able to properly use a given
tool without training or understanding is even more wrong for computing than
it is for other tools (e.g. automobiles, airplanes, guns, power saws).
- Doug Gwyn
is a collection of short stories, all inspired by Tolkien and written to honor him. Some major fantasy/SF authors participated. One of the stories even has Bilbo make an uncredited cameo. I highly recommend it.
...where, in the Metaverse, passing around globs of information was done by "visually" passing around things like business cards. The act of accepting one transferred the data, so you didn't just blindly accept one from someone you didn't know.
Plus the scene where the hero, uh, I mean, the protagonist, uh, I mean, the main character takes a card that represents a lot of data, and as the card passes from another person's hand to his, the world becomes slightly blocky and pixelated. His computer is so busy chunking down that much info that the refresh rate of his virtual eyes gets lagged.:-)
...is told later, in appendices and in one of the other books, can't recall which one. Parts of LOTR that Tolkien had to drop due to publishing costs post-WWII were later published.
There's a great scene set in Minas Tirith, for example, while everybody's just hanging around, killing time and waiting for Arwen to show up. It's Gandalf and some of the other characters, sitting around a room, with Gandalf making some links between this story and _The Hobbit_.
My earliest memory is of floating around in some strange kind of liquid. I have this bizarre sort of tube coming out of my tummy. It's very odd, but suprisingly relaxing.
Oil is expensive, but not nearly as expensive as the cost of invasion. Or war. Saving several million, or even several hundred million, doesn't stand up to the billions of greenbacks that a war with Iraq would require.
A stupid move on Bush's part? Yes. Done for shady reasons with crappy motivations? Yes. Are oil prices part of that motivation? Not really.
The US doesn't get that much of its oil from Iraq. It's not like there aren't other members of OPEC willing to sell to us. Or Texas, for that matter.
...the college of engineering at my old university did something similar with the isolated subnets.
There'd be a bunch of machines, called bilbo, frodo, gandalf, etc, on a net of their own, and diamond, ruby, emerald, etc, on a net of their own. For each net, another machine with two network cards would be their bridge to the outside world. Each of the network cards had its own name -- and this is where the geekiness comes out -- and the names would be for the same thing.
So one card on the bridge would be rivendell, and the other would be imladris. One card would be gem and the other jewel. Things like that. One of the sysadmins had never read Tolkien, and the network topology of room 355 always confused him until someone explained the names.
Angband was the fortress of the witch king (the head Ringwraith), not Morgoth. Morgoth's fortress was Thangorodrim, destroyed in the War of Wrath.
Hell yes I'm a Tolkien geek, how did you notice?:-) I've been reading Tolkien since childhood. And no, I've not yet seen TTT. I'm waiting until the theatres aren't so crowded.
No, www.everything2.com/index.pl is not a better definition of viral marketing, since there's nothing on that page that even mentions the phrase. (Was it supposed to be a better example of viral marketing? I'm guessing, since I still don't know what the fuck viral marketing is, but that site didn't define a thing.
The page linked to by the submitter talks about viewing the latest "viral films" and discussing them, but still doesn't tell me what it is we're all talking about.
"I always knew I would live to see the first man on the moon. I never dreamed I would live to see the last."
He was (is?) the president for the citizen's space advisory council. They get to talk to (and advise) the President about space exploration... or at least, they used to, back before America began to truly suck.
... to these kinds of short-sighted actions. He was going after NASA, trimming a 100K here and a 100K there, while other programs were blowing millions of dollars.
It also didn't help that the space program didn't directly benefit dairy farmers. (Proxmire was a senator for Wisconsin, IIRC.) Anything not directly giving money to dairy subsidies got attacked or otherwise "investigated" by Proxmire.
Recent versions of GCC ship with a version of the Boost Concept Checks embedded in (and adapted to) libstdc++. You can turn it on with a #define, or turn it on all the time with a switch to the 'configure' script. The docs explain how.
My own copy of GCC has the checks turned on permanently. Very useful.
There's a great scene in Cryptonomicon where he writes about attaching lights to people's heads, then tracking the lights from a side view as they walk on and off street curbs. Graphing over time would produce a square wave, with sidewalks showing up as high lines, and streets as low lines.
The point is that Waterhouse is one of the kinds of people who could stare at boatloads of those graphs, and then emerge with an extremely detailed street map of London.
...if you have a job where you can call in sick and not be summoned back (e.g., an ER doctor), you have no business taking a telephone into a movie theater in the first place.
It's not the size of your community, it's what you do with it.
For example:/. has a huge community. Yet, every time a matter of social importance comes up, most/.ers expend no more energy than it takes to click "+1,Bandwagon" while sipping some Dew. As as a result, no social matters are affected by the/. community in the way that/. would like.
In the same vein, a developer community could be large, but if their actions are poorly planned, poorly executed, or (following the/. tradition) nonexistant, then it doesn't matter how many of them there are.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm seriously considering blocking CmdrTaco from the list of people whose stories I see. If you look back over the list of duplicates, nearly all of them are Taco's.
Psssst, Taco. A hint for ya: just because you started the site doesn't absolve you of the duty of looking at it once in a while. Say, before you click "Submit."
One of the rare funny scenes in this movie is when an election for sheriff is being held. (This is the New York City of Tammany Hall, remember.) They show gang members raiding bars, workhouses, and tenements to round up anybody who can walk, and send them down to vote. Then they grab them on the way out of the voting hall, hustle them down the street to the barbershop, clean them up so they look different, and send them back to the voting hall.
One old guy complains how "they done already bought me out, and I already voted. Twice!" And Leo DiCaprio's character goes, "Twice? You call that doing your civic duty? Get back in there and keep voting!"
The next scene was rather insightful, I thought. Cut to Tammany Hall. A clerk walks up to "Boss" Tweed:
...that on any decent VMS system,
will start a surprisingly friendly hierarchical help menu on "topic". Or don't specify a topic and just wander around the help tree.
Just as "man man" is a useful command to give to Unix newbies, "HELP HELP" is a good starting point for VMS. My first networked machine was a VMS. When I finally moved to Unix, I was so diappointed in the man pages. "You have to type the whole name of the topic? It can't figure it out? Sheesh..."
Like the tagline goes: VMS is a text-based adventure game. If you win, you get to use Unix.
My understanding is that the automatic activation devices are still rather rare. Not from lack of supply, but from lack of demand.
For the standard lazy /. fucker who won't read the article, he's not doing that because of some weird fetish. It's SOP in Antarctica; the article only mentions it to point out that the weight load on the bike will increase with time (like every other Antarctic team has had to deal with).
Er, no, wait... he's consuming the food he's carrying, so weight load should remain more or less constant. Okay, I don't know why the article bothers to mention it.
Perhaps you should consider skydiving. Unlike every other sport I can think of, where you die only when something goes awry, in skydiving your death is guaranteed the instant you jump out the door -- unless you do something to change your situation. Any sport where you die by default every time you play, and it's up to you to fix that... yeah.
The version of GCC that ships with OS X has been heavily hacked on to make it work better for that operating system. One of the things Apple added was a simple implementation of PCH.
Other companies have done the same thing, many times. One of the customized versions of GCC that Cygnus did for a customer had a (simple) PCH in it, too.
The version being checked in to GCC is the result of all these different implementations coming together.
You don't really want that kind of thing done in the parser, because your refactorer (or whatever) would then have to handle the possibility of incorrect code. The parser is handling syntax (mostly), remember; semantic correctness is checked later.
You want GCC to parse the code, check the code, and then do something other than generate assembly. To some extent that's being done already (there are command-line options to dump various representations of the source, e.g., -fdump-translation-unit).
Also, the back-end (code generation) is seperate from the front end (language handling), so if you were to implement a back-end whose "assembly language" output was actually, say, XML, then you would have a C-to-XML, C++-to-XML, Java-to-XML, FORTRAN-to-XML, ObjectiveC-to-XML, and whatever-else-I'm-missing-to-XML converter. Dunno why you'd want such a thing, but you could probably build some kind of program database out of it (which is what IDEs use to do things like function name completion when typing code).
All of which is independent of the front-end parser.
You don't need GCC to implement it, nor do you need to wait on C++0x. Every container declares appropriate nested typedefs. Using your example:
The "figure out a type for you" was done when some_map was declared.
It's not only a useless phrase, it's actually actively harmful. It leads people to believe that it's a possible or desirable thing.
This guy said it best:
There's an axiom at Bell Labs (where C and C++ came from, for those who don't know):
Some languages are designed to solve a problem. Others are designed to prove a point.
is a collection of short stories, all inspired by Tolkien and written to honor him. Some major fantasy/SF authors participated. One of the stories even has Bilbo make an uncredited cameo. I highly recommend it.
...where, in the Metaverse, passing around globs of information was done by "visually" passing around things like business cards. The act of accepting one transferred the data, so you didn't just blindly accept one from someone you didn't know.
Plus the scene where the hero, uh, I mean, the protagonist, uh, I mean, the main character takes a card that represents a lot of data, and as the card passes from another person's hand to his, the world becomes slightly blocky and pixelated. His computer is so busy chunking down that much info that the refresh rate of his virtual eyes gets lagged. :-)
...is told later, in appendices and in one of the other books, can't recall which one. Parts of LOTR that Tolkien had to drop due to publishing costs post-WWII were later published.
There's a great scene set in Minas Tirith, for example, while everybody's just hanging around, killing time and waiting for Arwen to show up. It's Gandalf and some of the other characters, sitting around a room, with Gandalf making some links between this story and _The Hobbit_.
My earliest memory is of floating around in some strange kind of liquid. I have this bizarre sort of tube coming out of my tummy. It's very odd, but suprisingly relaxing.
Oil is expensive, but not nearly as expensive as the cost of invasion. Or war. Saving several million, or even several hundred million, doesn't stand up to the billions of greenbacks that a war with Iraq would require.
A stupid move on Bush's part? Yes. Done for shady reasons with crappy motivations? Yes. Are oil prices part of that motivation? Not really.
The US doesn't get that much of its oil from Iraq. It's not like there aren't other members of OPEC willing to sell to us. Or Texas, for that matter.
...the college of engineering at my old university did something similar with the isolated subnets.
There'd be a bunch of machines, called bilbo, frodo, gandalf, etc, on a net of their own, and diamond, ruby, emerald, etc, on a net of their own. For each net, another machine with two network cards would be their bridge to the outside world. Each of the network cards had its own name -- and this is where the geekiness comes out -- and the names would be for the same thing.
So one card on the bridge would be rivendell, and the other would be imladris. One card would be gem and the other jewel. Things like that. One of the sysadmins had never read Tolkien, and the network topology of room 355 always confused him until someone explained the names.
Angband was the fortress of the witch king (the head Ringwraith), not Morgoth. Morgoth's fortress was Thangorodrim, destroyed in the War of Wrath.
Hell yes I'm a Tolkien geek, how did you notice? :-) I've been reading Tolkien since childhood. And no, I've not yet seen TTT. I'm waiting until the theatres aren't so crowded.
No, www.everything2.com/index.pl is not a better definition of viral marketing, since there's nothing on that page that even mentions the phrase. (Was it supposed to be a better example of viral marketing? I'm guessing, since I still don't know what the fuck viral marketing is, but that site didn't define a thing.
The page linked to by the submitter talks about viewing the latest "viral films" and discussing them, but still doesn't tell me what it is we're all talking about.
Silkworms grow YOU!
I'm very sorry, I don't know what made me post this... need more sleep.
He was (is?) the president for the citizen's space advisory council. They get to talk to (and advise) the President about space exploration... or at least, they used to, back before America began to truly suck.
... to these kinds of short-sighted actions. He was going after NASA, trimming a 100K here and a 100K there, while other programs were blowing millions of dollars.
It also didn't help that the space program didn't directly benefit dairy farmers. (Proxmire was a senator for Wisconsin, IIRC.) Anything not directly giving money to dairy subsidies got attacked or otherwise "investigated" by Proxmire.
Recent versions of GCC ship with a version of the Boost Concept Checks embedded in (and adapted to) libstdc++. You can turn it on with a #define, or turn it on all the time with a switch to the 'configure' script. The docs explain how.
My own copy of GCC has the checks turned on permanently. Very useful.
There's a great scene in Cryptonomicon where he writes about attaching lights to people's heads, then tracking the lights from a side view as they walk on and off street curbs. Graphing over time would produce a square wave, with sidewalks showing up as high lines, and streets as low lines.
The point is that Waterhouse is one of the kinds of people who could stare at boatloads of those graphs, and then emerge with an extremely detailed street map of London.
...if you have a job where you can call in sick and not be summoned back (e.g., an ER doctor), you have no business taking a telephone into a movie theater in the first place.
It's not the size of your community, it's what you do with it.
For example: /. has a huge community. Yet, every time a matter of social importance comes up, most /.ers expend no more energy than it takes to click "+1,Bandwagon" while sipping some Dew. As as a result, no social matters are affected by the /. community in the way that /. would like.
In the same vein, a developer community could be large, but if their actions are poorly planned, poorly executed, or (following the /. tradition) nonexistant, then it doesn't matter how many of them there are.