While we were finishing off the previous project. So we had something to think about while waiting for bug reports. There was about one week of looking at and obtaining background materials for the problem (which was very well defined, if obscure; google was helpful and so was amazon's second hand bookshop) and another week starting building the main tool before the first product code was written.
OTOH I'm sure I used to write a lot faster before slashdot was invented;-)
27400 lines of assembler from two people in 4 months 8 days (let's call that 96 programmer days) = 286 lines per day that we hope to end up in the shipped product.
That's not including the 14100 lines of C++ in the main support tool (which won't be shipped) or the other tools, or data.
So short small projects let you be a lot more productive in terms of LOC:-), well until we get into the proper testing phase anyway:-(
The books I buy tend to be ~256 pages (Scott Meyers, Herb Sutter, Kernighan etc.) or ~64 pages (Xenophobes Guides). I fail to see why people would read a 1500 page listing of windows.h or something like that.
Some people buy cars with the turning radius of an oil tanker, books with 10 pages of useful content and 1000 pages of bug-ridden listings, and big plastic boxes with a couple of silicon chips in them, so maybe this is a cultural thing. I leave admiring the bigger is better idea to personal attributes (Jouko Ahola/Lola Ferrari/Filip Smirnov for example) or possibly monumental architecture rather than consumer items.
New Zealand has no land borders with any other country, whereas for example the USA has three that I can think of (Canada, Mexico, Cuba), and Canada has another country within 15 miles of its coast (St. Pierre and Miquelon).
But it is a tradition for middle class Kiwis to circumnavigate the globe (for their "OE" overseas experience) so they tend to have passports, despite the isolation. And with one of the worst driving records in the developed world, perhaps it's wise some of them don't get driving licenses:-(
Yeah but what's wrong with using ye olde apostrophe from ASCII? Will he be using the full-width japanese ROMAJI characters for normal text next? g...(TM)C--(TM) Z"!
Much as I love utf8, I can't see in the source code where slashdot specifies that encoding.
~1000 millibars or 100,000 Newtons per square metre or 100 KiloPascals. What could be easier? But it varies quite a bit around 1013 millibars. (It's 999 millibars just south of Sardinia at the moment. Alas the weather map doesn't show psi or inches of mercury - do US ones?)
from raw materials, didn't they? (Scientists that is). That's less than 1Kbyte isn't it (fits on a t-shirt). But a virus is much simpler than a bacterium (since it is not self-replicating).
Hmm, it may be better here than in the US, but that's not saying much. Compared to Germany, France or Japan we suck!
Their site mentions that in Japan the average deviation from schedule is 24 seconds. Last night at 1am I saw a train that was over an hour late! (I think it came from Scotland). We have highly advanced display systems just to tell you how late each train or bus is:-). Mind you, the displays at local bus-stops giving estimates of which busses will arrive and when aren't 100% accurate.
The price of a daily travel card has gone up from £1.30 in 1990 to £5.00 now, which must be well above inflation (monthlies are better value though). Note that in theory you cannot buy a ticket on trains now (especially since all the ticket barriers went up).
3a) Can't use it on the footpath, because the council/cable company/gas company dug it up a few months ago, put some cones around the hole and then forgot about it.
Some days I have to push my door hard to get it to open past all the junk-mail.
(Stupidly, British homes don't have mailboxes, they have slots in their front doors. This is to make it easy for bad people to put petrol bombs through your door, to make the post office less efficient, and to give dogs a decent chance of biting your fingers off if you are delivering an election pamphlet).
It sounds like there are whole corn plants in the soybean fields (which presumably the automatic harvesting grabs together), rather than cross-species gene jumping. Still worrying but not unexpected when the US has such a cavalier attitude to segregation of GM/non-GM crops. It might also be worrying if you were allergic to normal corn (if they still grow that in the USA) (and found it in your soy food).
Hmm, and the retailers that sell the software, no doubt they do this out of the goodness of their hearts? And I'm sure the government wouldn't dream of putting a sales tax on it...
There is usually a huge difference between wholesale and retail prices in software. But the cost (to each distributor or major retailer) may well be a secret.
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When I travelled on a bus that stopped off at a college, I remember writing down a grammar for the girls' conversation; it seemed auto-generated with only the first names changed each trip.
Now I just get sullen commuters on the train - less conversation but at least I can snooze.
I would prefer them to use C style expressions rather than wierd [] thingies.
And many of the bugs I have had in the last few weeks would just not appear in high level language, e.g. if you branch past an instruction that changes the CPU register sizes.
I'm not a big x86 fan, but don't they usually use ebx these days instead of bx?
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While we were finishing off the previous project. So we had something to think about while waiting for bug reports. There was about one week of looking at and obtaining background materials for the problem (which was very well defined, if obscure; google was helpful and so was amazon's second hand bookshop) and another week starting building the main tool before the first product code was written.
OTOH I'm sure I used to write a lot faster before slashdot was invented ;-)
That's not including the 14100 lines of C++ in the main support tool (which won't be shipped) or the other tools, or data.
So short small projects let you be a lot more productive in terms of LOC :-), well until we get into the proper testing phase anyway :-(
Some people buy cars with the turning radius of an oil tanker, books with 10 pages of useful content and 1000 pages of bug-ridden listings, and big plastic boxes with a couple of silicon chips in them, so maybe this is a cultural thing. I leave admiring the bigger is better idea to personal attributes (Jouko Ahola/Lola Ferrari/Filip Smirnov for example) or possibly monumental architecture rather than consumer items.
Yeah, so www.change-ebay.com must be really trustworthy then :-)
But it is a tradition for middle class Kiwis to circumnavigate the globe (for their "OE" overseas experience) so they tend to have passports, despite the isolation. And with one of the worst driving records in the developed world, perhaps it's wise some of them don't get driving licenses :-(
Much as I love utf8, I can't see in the source code where slashdot specifies that encoding.
~1000 millibars or 100,000 Newtons per square metre or 100 KiloPascals. What could be easier? But it varies quite a bit around 1013 millibars. (It's 999 millibars just south of Sardinia at the moment. Alas the weather map doesn't show psi or inches of mercury - do US ones?)
You could get a passport instead, but that would entail admitting that other countries exist...
from raw materials, didn't they? (Scientists that is). That's less than 1Kbyte isn't it (fits on a t-shirt). But a virus is much simpler than a bacterium (since it is not self-replicating).
In that case, fly to gatwick, then bounce between the two terminals on its free monorail...
Their site mentions that in Japan the average deviation from schedule is 24 seconds. Last night at 1am I saw a train that was over an hour late! (I think it came from Scotland). We have highly advanced display systems just to tell you how late each train or bus is :-). Mind you, the displays at local bus-stops giving estimates of which busses will arrive and when aren't 100% accurate.
The price of a daily travel card has gone up from £1.30 in 1990 to £5.00 now, which must be well above inflation (monthlies are better value though). Note that in theory you cannot buy a ticket on trains now (especially since all the ticket barriers went up).
someone who can read rot13 at normal speed...
3a) Can't use it on the footpath, because the council/cable company/gas company dug it up a few months ago, put some cones around the hole and then forgot about it.
Some days I have to push my door hard to get it to open past all the junk-mail. (Stupidly, British homes don't have mailboxes, they have slots in their front doors. This is to make it easy for bad people to put petrol bombs through your door, to make the post office less efficient, and to give dogs a decent chance of biting your fingers off if you are delivering an election pamphlet).
That brandname is getting everywhere... so now they make Vodka as well as t-shirts?
visit Toys 'R Us.
This may apply to many other people.
Typical non-cellphone user: People in long-term care in hospital; some homeless people (they just have hotmail accounts).
Crop rotation between food and drugs - not so good.
It sounds like there are whole corn plants in the soybean fields (which presumably the automatic harvesting grabs together), rather than cross-species gene jumping. Still worrying but not unexpected when the US has such a cavalier attitude to segregation of GM/non-GM crops. It might also be worrying if you were allergic to normal corn (if they still grow that in the USA) (and found it in your soy food).
You're thinking of Kabaddi
There is usually a huge difference between wholesale and retail prices in software. But the cost (to each distributor or major retailer) may well be a secret.
Now I just get sullen commuters on the train - less conversation but at least I can snooze.
I thought Pierce Brosnan was the new Doctor. Oh wait...
I would prefer them to use C style expressions rather than wierd [] thingies.
And many of the bugs I have had in the last few weeks would just not appear in high level language, e.g. if you branch past an instruction that changes the CPU register sizes.
I'm not a big x86 fan, but don't they usually use ebx these days instead of bx?