User: Howling Loon

Air Cars

On: Gas/Electric Hybrids, Air Cars in the News

Cough cough... second law of thermodynamics... cough cough... an MIT enterprise... ROFLMAO!

Rounding up the eyeballs again

On: The Future in Gear

The site tells me I'm an early adopter instead of asking me if I am. I guess that makes it easier to sell my cookies to marketeers wanting to reach that highly prized demographic. ("Will pay anything for 15 minutes' egoboo"). Bah. Oh well, all my demographics are countermeasures anyway.

Re:Recycling already a money-loser

On: Recycle Fee For Each PC?

Foo! Facts and enviros don't mix! If the streams cross, that would be... bad...

Piled deeper

On: If This Had Been An Actual Emergency

The way you guys make up law, you might as well be the Supremes! There is no duty to help. There is no liability from not helping. If you *do* help, don't mess up, cause you're liable. This is standard law. Good Samaritan laws shield helpers from this liability. Period.

Comments by naming

On: It's Not About Lines of Code

I like commentParserDatabaseCursor. I also like i, j, p, and retval. The length of an identifier should be roughly proportional to the log of the size of its scope. A file scope "i" is an abomination. A loop scope "commentParserDatabaseCursor" is an idiocy.

Zoning out sitting in the shower

On: It's Not About Lines of Code

with the water playing on the back of my neck... no time passes... and viola! A solution!

EMACS?

On: It's Not About Lines of Code

Nah, writing V1 in TECO is what did it.

CHoke! Learn C++ before teaching it!

On: It's Not About Lines of Code

Notably the RAII pattern, which these clowns appear to be totally unaware of.