User: egilhh

Re:Ada v. C Re:Not overblown

On: The Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don't Want to Deal With It (vice.com)

small, efficient binaries on bare metal, like the BBC Micro:Bit? https://blog.adacore.com/ada-o...

Re:30 cm/s

On: Astronomers Detect Four Earth-Sized Planets Orbiting The Nearest Sun-Like Star (ucsc.edu)

0.3 m/s * 3600 s/h = 1080 m/h, which is roughly 1 km/h...

Re:Ada

On: TechCrunch Urges Developers: Replace C Code With Rust (techcrunch.com)

Please produce real numbers for real programs demonstrating a significant cost from bounds-checking.

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.d...

Re:Ada

On: TechCrunch Urges Developers: Replace C Code With Rust (techcrunch.com)

And it's illegal to modify Index anyway...

Re:That's the state of the universe then...

On: Physicists Confirm a Pear-Shaped Nucleus, and It Could Ruin Time Travel Forever (sciencealert.com)

Where the smeg is Nodnol?

In Dnalgne, on a planet called Htrae, of course

Re:Yellow Alert

On: Most Powerful Geomagnetic Storm of Solar Cycle 24 Is Happening

Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb.

Re:Don't you know who your cousins are?

On: In Iceland, Tap Cellphones To Avoid Incest

sperm doners

I'll never eat kebabs at your house.

Not new

On: Scandinavian Scientists Designing Robotic Snakes

This is not new, actuaclly...

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/22/1849235

Re:which one is that prominent link?

On: Music Industry Tells Advertisers to Boycott "Pirate" Baidu

I don't even see the scribbles anymore.
All I see now is blonde, brunette, redhead...

Re:The what?

On: IEEE Special Report On the Singularity

On the other hand, if we develop beings with an artificial intelligence equal to the smartest scientists, they could potentially develop a second generation that would be improved. That generation could operate more quickly and be smarter, and develop a third generation even more quickly. And then we'll finally know the Ultimate Question about Life, the Universe and Everything.

Another interview

On: Colossus Cipher Challenge Winner On Ada

There's another interview with him at adacore.com (makers of the GNAT compiler)

http://www.adacore.com/home/ada_answers/lorenz-code/

Re:Type Casting

On: Colossus Cipher Challenge Winner On Ada

What makes you think that Ada does not allow type conversion?
"typename(variable)" is pretty easy in my opinion...
(not much harder than the type cast in other languages: "(typename)variable")

Ada even has a package called Ada.Unchecked_Conversion if you don't care
about ensuring the result is within the bounds of the target type...

Re:er... thats a bit of a leap

On: Humanity Gene Found?

Err... Pinky? Methinks you mean Philip J. Fry...

Re:login?

On: The Thalamus - The Kernel in Your Mind

Haven't you heard of biometric authentication?

~egilhh

Venus

On: Venus Probe Set to Reach Target

Look, ma, no hands!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_de_Milo/

~egilhh

Re:Silicon Heaven

On: Where Computers Go To Die

No, actually it's Red Dwarf...

(But where do all the calculators go?)

~egilhh

Silicon Heaven

On: Where Computers Go To Die

What do you mean, there's no silicon heaven?

~egilhh

open source zealots

On: BBC Links Linux To MyDoom

"If anyone's anger has no measure, it is the wrath of internet zealots who believe that code should be free to all (open source)."

If this is true, shouldn't there be a MyDoom project on Sourceforge?

Re:Sixth form of matter?

On: Scientists Create New Form of Matter

Milla Jovovich?