Code reviews shouldn't be a "full stop, let's go over this" event. Code review should be a part of the every day workings of the development team. Nothing should go into version control's master/trunk/HEAD until it has been reviewed.
I don't think that's true. Sometimes projects, especially new ones, are in phases where many ideas get tried out, partly to see how to best tackle a problem, and partly to tease out requirements. When you have a small number of people working in that mode, and the trunk is intended to be a bit like the Wild West, code reviews can probably wait a while.
I'm currently porting a large Fortran 77 program to C++. I can safely say that Fortran 77 is a dangerous, bad, damaging language to teach anyone, especially impressionable young programmers.
There are several idioms in F77 that must not be taught to future generations. Probably most importantly, the use of "common blocks", and "entry" points, and the hacks needed to get around the lack of dynamic memory allocation.
I'm sure that newer versions of Fortran are more reasonable, though.
He's been out of office for six months now. It's time to give up the knee-jerk Bush bashing and get some new material. There are plenty of other ripe targets if you just look around a bit.
His lies brought us to Iraq. He permitted torture, in our name. And that's just the start of the list.
You're right: my bashing him is probably not something that's of interest to the general audience.
But being 6 months out of office isn't nearly enough to make him irrelevant to me. I will curse that mother-fscking war criminal until the day I die.
I'm really sad that he hanged himself. Even if he was a total douche-bag (and I have no idea either way), this wasn't a reason for someone to die.
But by killing himself, he likely devastated a amily who loved him.
At the very least, he should have resigned. If he felt the need to make amends, he could have dedicated his remaining life to teaching, serving the poor and oppressed, or generally living a quiet life where he helped the people around him.
For him to judge that his life was such a failure that he had to rob himself and the world of his remaining years seems like a tragic mistake.
[crank mode=on] Am I the only person who's irritated by this use of the word "rig"?
Before computer geeks started using "rig" to refer to their computers, the only commonly used meaning was large trucks, e.g., 18-wheelers.
To call a computer a "rig" irritates me for the same reason that the term "domestic engineer" bothers me: it's trying to gain respect by stealing the respect rightfully earned by the thing to which the word traditionally refers.
Most maintenance schedules for aircraft are set by the FAA, not at the airline's whim. The majority of aircraft crashes are due to environmental factors (such as turbulence or other bad weather), or pilot error.
Do the FAA regultions come into play here? At least in this particular flight, the plane didn't fly over the USA.
Yea, but we've seen this MS story about this a few times. Where's the huge repeated outrage about the Sun extension that essentially pulled the same BS?
Because even virus writers aren't interested in targetting Java?
In light of an Air Comet pilot's report to Air France, Airbus, and the Spanish civil aviation authority that, during a Monday flight from Lima to Lisbon, 'Suddenly, we saw in the distance a strong and intense flash of white light, which followed a descending and vertical trajectory and which broke up in six seconds
A company called Air Comet is saying they saw a meteor do it?
reference counting + any indirect circular reference == memory leak
I disagree. The timing of when deletion occurs is still deterministic in such a case. It's just harder for programmers to notice. That causes its own problems, but nondeterminism isn't one of them.
So, dues this constitute criminal fraud by Clemson? It sounds like it was used to like to students and their parents regarding what their tuition was getting them.
... and pornography featuring violence, bestiality, and incest...
Isn't that particular stuff still considered legal? And if so, does it have an rightful place in an appeal by the government to a judge?
In most places no, those acts are not legal. Simulating those acts is legal. Maybe some wiggle room on the "violence", depending on what exactly they mean. Incest laws, like sodomy laws, are rarely prosecuted, or at least I've never heard of such prosecution. Rape and bestiality are. IANAL
Yeah, but we're talking about whether or not it's illegal to show those acts, not commit them. For example, if they were committed outside of the relevant jurisdiction(s).
I realize that child porn is in its own class in this regard, since even possessing the material is illegal. So I'm just talking about the rape, incest, etc.
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No. See "Common Carrier". You really don't want the phone companies to be able to refuse service to anybody...
Depending on which part of the OP you're disagreeing with, I'd say you're right or wrong.
Common carrier status does probably give them legal cover for what they're facilitating.
But as far as being complicit, there is little doubt.
"May I ask who I'm speaking to?"
*click*
Damn! They abandoned the scam just because you ended the sentence with a preposition?
I don't think that's true. Sometimes projects, especially new ones, are in phases where many ideas get tried out, partly to see how to best tackle a problem, and partly to tease out requirements. When you have a small number of people working in that mode, and the trunk is intended to be a bit like the Wild West, code reviews can probably wait a while.
I'm currently porting a large Fortran 77 program to C++. I can safely say that Fortran 77 is a dangerous, bad, damaging language to teach anyone, especially impressionable young programmers.
There are several idioms in F77 that must not be taught to future generations. Probably most importantly, the use of "common blocks", and "entry" points, and the hacks needed to get around the lack of dynamic memory allocation.
I'm sure that newer versions of Fortran are more reasonable, though.
He's been out of office for six months now. It's time to give up the knee-jerk Bush bashing and get some new material. There are plenty of other ripe targets if you just look around a bit.
His lies brought us to Iraq. He permitted torture, in our name. And that's just the start of the list.
You're right: my bashing him is probably not something that's of interest to the general audience.
But being 6 months out of office isn't nearly enough to make him irrelevant to me. I will curse that mother-fscking war criminal until the day I die.
Man, that almost makes me feel pity for Bush.
Civilization has always been a thin veneer on top of barbarism, and it barely keeps our worst instincts in check.
Yes, but if you look under the Barbarism, you actually find two layers of humanitarianism.
You don't need a sense of despair; just a good belt sander.
I'm really sad that he hanged himself. Even if he was a total douche-bag (and I have no idea either way), this wasn't a reason for someone to die.
But by killing himself, he likely devastated a amily who loved him.
At the very least, he should have resigned. If he felt the need to make amends, he could have dedicated his remaining life to teaching, serving the poor and oppressed, or generally living a quiet life where he helped the people around him.
For him to judge that his life was such a failure that he had to rob himself and the world of his remaining years seems like a tragic mistake.
Oh. Ummm... okay then. Thanks.
[crank mode=on]
Am I the only person who's irritated by this use of the word "rig"?
Before computer geeks started using "rig" to refer to their computers, the only commonly used meaning was large trucks, e.g., 18-wheelers.
To call a computer a "rig" irritates me for the same reason that the term "domestic engineer" bothers me: it's trying to gain respect by stealing the respect rightfully earned by the thing to which the word traditionally refers.
Long-story short, it's posing.
[crank mode=off]
Fuck that noise, Eric.
Here, here! Fuck that noise indeed, Eric! Fuck it indeed.
And once you do, I'll be the first to call you a "noise fucker". Why? BECAUSE YOU'RE A SCOTT!
Oh, how I love this Slashdot ribaldry!
Mount Everest is only 8km high. Where the fuck do you ski?
Grammar correction: "At where the fuck do you ski?"
Most maintenance schedules for aircraft are set by the FAA, not at the airline's whim. The majority of aircraft crashes are due to environmental factors (such as turbulence or other bad weather), or pilot error.
Do the FAA regultions come into play here? At least in this particular flight, the plane didn't fly over the USA.
Is this some kind of gay marathon?
If you mean "gay" in the pejorative sense, then absolutely.
Yea, but we've seen this MS story about this a few times. Where's the huge repeated outrage about the Sun extension that essentially pulled the same BS?
Because even virus writers aren't interested in targetting Java?
(ducks)
Except for that one. Nicely done.
Thank you for participating in "Race to the Bottom" Friday.
Sounds more like some sort of sick, subtle branding exercise. Is nothing sacred?
Yeah, Think of the (dead) children!
Oh, damn... I think that's the most tasteless joke I ever conceived.
A company called Air Comet is saying they saw a meteor do it?
Does anyone else smell some blame-shifting?
I want to mod that post "+1 funny because it's so -1 insane."
When will Taco finally implement complex-number mods???
use reference counting != deterministic behavior
reference counting + any indirect circular reference == memory leak
I disagree. The timing of when deletion occurs is still deterministic in such a case. It's just harder for programmers to notice. That causes its own problems, but nondeterminism isn't one of them.
Did kdawson even read the article before writing the summary? I don't see anything in the article about Java becoming more like Haskell!
Thank goodness legislatures have the discipline to only use funds for the reason they gave in the justification.
So, dues this constitute criminal fraud by Clemson? It sounds like it was used to like to students and their parents regarding what their tuition was getting them.
From the summary:
Isn't that particular stuff still considered legal? And if so, does it have an rightful place in an appeal by the government to a judge?
In most places no, those acts are not legal. Simulating those acts is legal. Maybe some wiggle room on the "violence", depending on what exactly they mean. Incest laws, like sodomy laws, are rarely prosecuted, or at least I've never heard of such prosecution. Rape and bestiality are. IANAL
Yeah, but we're talking about whether or not it's illegal to show those acts, not commit them. For example, if they were committed outside of the relevant jurisdiction(s).
I realize that child porn is in its own class in this regard, since even possessing the material is illegal. So I'm just talking about the rape, incest, etc.
From the summary:
Isn't that particular stuff still considered legal? And if so, does it have an rightful place in an appeal by the government to a judge?