If you were just incredibly offensive to whoever dialled you up, I'm sure the message would get back to whoever it was who was giving out the wrong number
Anything would be better than perl:) C would be a particularly good... oh, wait.
Lua would be a good one though. It's found quite a little niche for itself in games as it is so easily embedded into a parent program. Lua would be a more relevant skill than perl for somebody looking to get into working in games. (IMHO)
The test coverage lead me astry last summer. My boss had a TV near his desk, and most afternoons we'd find ourselves gathered around it following the action. Thankfully he was as much into the game as I was, so it didn't really matter.
Indeed it was a contrived example, but you wouldn't have to add too much context to make it a very believeable real-world piece of code. At my previous employer I found myself tracking down a single cyclic dependency in very large (well, a few thousand small objects) sets of data. Large enough to dump it all out to a file and get a REALLY big pice of paper and trace it out by hand. The author had just slipped up in a single place. Maybe it was a maintenance fix done when the original subtleties had been forgotten. The thing that annoyed me was that it only took a single mistake to keep the whole structure in memory; We'd have been better off using malloc and free, or new and delete.
But anyway, I do agree with the message of the original post; write the program in whatever is easiest and optimise the bottlenecks from that point.
"What about the guys who re-sell Altair BASIC?... [they] should be kicked out of any club meeting they show up at."
Yes, I agree. Piracy of commercial software is illegal and gives hobbyists a bad name. Nothing has changed here over 30 years. I think most open source enthusiasts (myself included) would rather people did not pirate commercial software.
I learnt perl at uni thanks to some horrible individual who insisted on leaving his fingernail clippings at the side of the terminal he was using.
Once I discovered the 'last' command, I could write a bit of perl that would parse the output and keep a tally in a file of users who had been on the affected terminals.
The problem went away before I actually managed to come to a confident accusation though. I guess that's a good thing, but I really wanted to find out who it was:(
It refers to a story that was duplicated five times (making a total of six entries) on slashdot.
But anyway, never mind that shit, the Baltimore Sun is reporting that a Canadian company, Delcan NET, will begin testing a technology that determines the flow of automobile traffic by monitoring cell phone traffic. The company promises a revolutionary way to determine backups, but privacy advocates fear the implications of a third party tracking users by their cell phones.
The Baltimore Sun is reporting that a Canadian company, Delcan NET, will begin testing a technology that determines the flow of automobile traffic by monitoring cell phone traffic. The company promises a revolutionary way to determine backups, but privacy advocates fear the implications of a third party tracking users by their cell phones.
I think your eyes might have put the word "don't" into my post. I was joking that an informed post that actually helps answer the question is quite rare on an 'ask slashdot'. It's usually a knee-jerk recommendation for $TECH_DU_JOUR;)
Every few days, I log in as root, run apt-get, and my machine talks to a debian mirror. It downloads and installs whatever the mirror says is newer, even including apt itself.
The administrator of the mirror I use (ftp.demon.co.uk) effectively has root access to my computer.
Slashdot Mirror
If you were just incredibly offensive to whoever dialled you up, I'm sure the message would get back to whoever it was who was giving out the wrong number
D'ya reckon that's why they call it "obiter"!?
:)
Insight++
Lua would be a good one though. It's found quite a little niche for itself in games as it is so easily embedded into a parent program. Lua would be a more relevant skill than perl for somebody looking to get into working in games. (IMHO)
I'm into Battlefield 2 at the moment, but I desperately miss the community features of T2.
Heheh, that's brilliant :)
parse error at line 1
Because Acrobat 7.0 is not Acrobat version 6?
Bit of a strange subject for slashdot, eh?
Indeed it was a contrived example, but you wouldn't have to add too much context to make it a very believeable real-world piece of code. At my previous employer I found myself tracking down a single cyclic dependency in very large (well, a few thousand small objects) sets of data. Large enough to dump it all out to a file and get a REALLY big pice of paper and trace it out by hand. The author had just slipped up in a single place. Maybe it was a maintenance fix done when the original subtleties had been forgotten. The thing that annoyed me was that it only took a single mistake to keep the whole structure in memory; We'd have been better off using malloc and free, or new and delete.
But anyway, I do agree with the message of the original post; write the program in whatever is easiest and optimise the bottlenecks from that point.
You do need to worry about memory leaks in perl, as it uses refcounting instead of garbage collection.
It's trivial to implement a memory leak in perl. Here's one in 5 nicely formed innocent looking lines.
while (1)
{
my $hashref = {};
$hashref->{self} = $hashref;
}
Yes, I agree. Piracy of commercial software is illegal and gives hobbyists a bad name. Nothing has changed here over 30 years. I think most open source enthusiasts (myself included) would rather people did not pirate commercial software.
But does it support ogg?
I believe the current high score is six: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=168794&cid =14070720
Maybe that's what causes all the dupes!
I learnt perl at uni thanks to some horrible individual who insisted on leaving his fingernail clippings at the side of the terminal he was using.
:(
Once I discovered the 'last' command, I could write a bit of perl that would parse the output and keep a tally in a file of users who had been on the affected terminals.
The problem went away before I actually managed to come to a confident accusation though. I guess that's a good thing, but I really wanted to find out who it was
It is reported that 99.3% of firefox users use firefox! OMGLOLBBQ!
It seems the humour is too dry for the audience.
It refers to a story that was duplicated five times (making a total of six entries) on slashdot.
But anyway, never mind that shit, the Baltimore Sun is reporting that a Canadian company, Delcan NET, will begin testing a technology that determines the flow of automobile traffic by monitoring cell phone traffic. The company promises a revolutionary way to determine backups, but privacy advocates fear the implications of a third party tracking users by their cell phones.
If you browse at 'highest scores first', and have 'troll', 'flamebait' and 'offtopic' at +6 bias, you end up with a great slashdot.
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Every story has:
first post
GNAA claims victory over....
(some on-topic groupthink
insightful comments
insightful and funny trolls that are yet to be moderated
The Baltimore Sun is reporting that a Canadian company, Delcan NET, will begin testing a technology that determines the flow of automobile traffic by monitoring cell phone traffic. The company promises a revolutionary way to determine backups, but privacy advocates fear the implications of a third party tracking users by their cell phones.
I think your eyes might have put the word "don't" into my post. I was joking that an informed post that actually helps answer the question is quite rare on an 'ask slashdot'. It's usually a knee-jerk recommendation for $TECH_DU_JOUR ;)
Sir, you seem to have the slightest idea of what you're talking about. Are you lost?
Good effort, but you forgot to run the spell checker. Your post has the same spelling mistake (grammer) as the parent.
MS Office formats stay an industry standard? Duh
Every few days, I log in as root, run apt-get, and my machine talks to a debian mirror. It downloads and installs whatever the mirror says is newer, even including apt itself.
The administrator of the mirror I use (ftp.demon.co.uk) effectively has root access to my computer.