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  1. Re:Penny Arcade on Visual Studio vs. Eclipse: a Programmer's Comparison · · Score: 1

    The sentence seemed overly broad so I commented on it as I did. If you meant it narrowly, my apologies (although still applicable).

    I assumed you meant it the same as if you'd said "the world of icons is inescapable" ten years ago.

  2. Re:Getters and setters on Visual Studio vs. Eclipse: a Programmer's Comparison · · Score: 1

    Validation!

    class ipaddress {
          private unsigned long address;
          private unsigned long netmask; /* storing length would be easier but hush */

          void setaddress(const long newaddress) {
                address = newaddress;
          }
          void setnetmask(const long newnetmask) { // woah, not all longs are valid netmasks!
              if (validatenetmask(newnetmask) {
                    netmask = newnetmask;
              } else { die("invalid netmask!"); }
          }
    }

  3. Re:A real study is needed on Visual Studio vs. Eclipse: a Programmer's Comparison · · Score: 1

    target: dependancy
    commands to make target from dependancy

    How is that so obscure or hard to know?

    all: program

    program: main.c support.c library.o
          gcc -o program main.c support.c library.o

    library.o: foo.c bar.c ... and so on.

  4. Re:Title not a good start on Visual Studio vs. Eclipse: a Programmer's Comparison · · Score: 1

    Highlight variable definition with too many variables in a list and copy with 'y'.
    Hit q, 1, /, ", ",
    Now hit "2x", ";", , P
    Hit escape, then "20@1" to run 20 more times.

    Voila, you turned "int a, b, c, d, e;" into "int a; int b; int c" etc.

    Macro was very simple for sake of Slashdot example. Don't forget you can save all those macros and reuse them in the future.

  5. Re:Title not a good start on Visual Studio vs. Eclipse: a Programmer's Comparison · · Score: 1

    Where's this proof? I see no proof.

    I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but I don't see it.

    This is a real study of hundreds of actual professional programmers from a wide variety of backgrounds?

  6. Re:No point on Visual Studio vs. Eclipse: a Programmer's Comparison · · Score: 1

    * go prototype your app in Python and if its fast enough, don't bother with the rewrite in C++

  7. Re:Ec*freeze*lip*freeze*se works on Visual Studio vs. Eclipse: a Programmer's Comparison · · Score: 1

    I presume this is on Windows? I've never seen this on Eclipse for Linux (doing Android work).

  8. Re:Um excuse me ... on Visual Studio vs. Eclipse: a Programmer's Comparison · · Score: 1

    No, good programmers who communicate well with each other and management are productive.

    PS ctags. Not grep, ctags. At least know your tools.

  9. Re:Um excuse me ... on Visual Studio vs. Eclipse: a Programmer's Comparison · · Score: 1

    I can script a method rename in under five minutes at the command-line in bash ... /with/ git integration.

    What's wrong with your process exactly?

  10. Re:Um excuse me ... on Visual Studio vs. Eclipse: a Programmer's Comparison · · Score: 1

    Please name and shame the company so none of us have to work there.

  11. Re:Um excuse me ... on Visual Studio vs. Eclipse: a Programmer's Comparison · · Score: 1

    I miss vim every time I use an IDE ... I love a good integrated suite as much as the next guy but I love my quick scriptable editor even more.

  12. Re:Penny Arcade on Visual Studio vs. Eclipse: a Programmer's Comparison · · Score: 1

    I escaped tiles just fine on both Android and Linux. I see no reason to believe I'm stuck with something when I can be productive ignoring the entire platform quite happily.

  13. Re:I Worked With A Great Team Once on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1

    You felt better about yourself than if they'd called you a moron who should've stayed home.

    The comparison here is "better than if insulted" not "better than before failing".

  14. Re:Victim Card - Power Play? on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1

    No worries, slashcode is offering to let me moderate your comment about my comment ... it would likely fail, but it really shouldn't even bother.

  15. Re:Linus is damaging the reputation of Linux on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1

    Nearly every managed switch and router I've installed in the year has included a legal statement about offering source code on request for the open source portions ...

    People who are into branding and market analysis don't seem to get it -- Linux doesn't need market awareness, its already better enough than the competition that it gets used anyway, and the users don't even realize they're using it.

  16. Re:False Flag on Apple Sued For Man's Porn Addiction · · Score: 2

    Damn, I wish I could remember the book I perused from a Toronto professor stating that rape was obviously an evolutionary trait to improve the species ... morality and evolution really don't get along when you think about it.

  17. Re:False Flag on Apple Sued For Man's Porn Addiction · · Score: 1

    Nobody needs an argument against evolution -- intelligent people already know its far from well-proven but interesting to test against until it fails to hold up.

  18. Re:Victim Card - Power Play? on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1

    Having worked in an office of over 30 women and only one other man, I vouch for this.

  19. Re:Victim Card on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1

    Since when was subscribing to the LKML mandatory? You subscribe and read it by choice.

    Linus doesn't (to my knowledge) randomly E-mail insults to random people online without provocation.

  20. Re:What about new talent? on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1

    Once upon a time I was a rank amateur and started contributing to and eventually took over maintainership of libicq. Yes, back when ICQ was an actual chat platform.

    Eventually, I walked away silently, but until then, I learned a lot, I grew a lot and I got better at what I do.

    Feel free not to participate, but jumping in and getting beaten over the head by some really amazing coders is better than never improving.

  21. Re:Neutral point of view approach on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1

    CEOs actually have control over people. Linus does not. Everyone who "works under" Linus on that mailing list does so by choice. All analogies with business end there.

  22. Re:Linus is damaging the reputation of Linux on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1

    Yup, the amateur hour OS on nearly every supercomputer on the planet, powering most smart phones on the planet, and so many myriad other devices its staggering. Amateur hour at its finest -- owning the planet.

  23. Re:I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrob on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1

    Do what works. Is it not working? Looks like it is. Keep it up.

  24. Re:I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrob on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Calling him names in a retort about verbal abuse ... +1 for irony.

  25. Re:How does he treat his wife and kids? on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1

    I yell at my kid when they're an idiot. I even tell her when she's being an idiot. Guess what, the world will treat her worse, and my kid's actually growing up learning to improve to handle situations instead of being coddled. She also loves Doctor Who and Buffy TV time with me and knows not to mouth off at schoolmates even if they're being stupid, but isn't forced to "keep it to herself" at home if she thinks she's right. When did good parenting start meaning to raise our babies into grown babies exactly?