On a different note a guy who was fairly senior in a large ISP here told me that one of their subscribers send whattlooked like a suicide note over IRC. The person who spotted it got onto the ISP, who gave the billing address to the local police in that jurisdiction. They got there just in time.
My son spent the last two weeks pleading for me to pay for an account on club penguin for him. Of course he won in the end. Now he is getting up early so he can log on through is mothers PC before we are awake...
This is one of occasions where the French have it about right, they have separation of church and state. They do not even allow religion in schools in any form. I don't understand why people think it is ok to force their beliefs on me.
I am all for the separation of church and state. I believe we should start with Saudi Arabia and Israel. But why should you not teach religion in schools? Belief systems are knowledge are they not?
I recall that one Christian leader here in Australia opposes laws against blasphemy because to be implemented properly they would have to protect all the religions we currently recognise. And that a lot.
Ireland and Saudi Arabia don't have the same problem of course.
The code which is business critical and necessarily complex gets commented a lot as a mitigation measure. But it still has problems, often because the business requirements change a lot or are poorly defined.
Christ, I know everyone has their own personal style and everything, but this is just pernicious. In any case, the author gives the game away: when he thinks code is overcommented, he can ask Emacs to hide the comments. So far as I know there's no automatic system that will generate the comments that the author failed to put in because the code was "self-documenting".
Yeah there is this guy I have the misfortune to be working with. Once in a code review he insisted that all my code be double spaced (one blank line between every line) because he was having trouble reading it. I said why don't you configure your editor accordingly. He said in his team they do pair programming so every workstation has to be set up exactly the same way...
I would rather rewrite it than try to decipher it.
In the environment I work somebody will try to import your change later and they will want to know why you made that change. They aren't going to be very impressed if your answer is that you couldn't understand the original code. By making that change you would be creating work for a lot of other people down the chain.
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I work on a really big hunk of C code and one place I would like to see more comments is in the start and end of blocks. This is because during the life of the code people come in and paste maybe 1000 lines of code from elsewhere into the block and totally stuff up the indenting so its hard to see what is supposed to match to what. This is particularly a problem with importing between branches (my job at the moment) because it can be hard to work out the original intent of the various nested blocks you wind up with.
Commented out code is a particular problem because my editor can count { and } but it doesn't know if some of those have been commented out, possibly asymmetrically.
Where I work comments get used to abuse people. You commit a message:
/*Hey $YOU dont do this again */
But a lot of the comments we have I can't even read because they have been collected by the code in one of the countries it has been to over the last 30 years or so. Many of them seem to be in French and Arabic.
Thats actually really interesting because it means electronics can be integrated with the brain just by implanting them and waiting for nerve growth to complete the job.
I mean, c'mon, are we supposed to also be celebrating the 190th birthday of perl's localtime()?
go watch the fireworks from my rooftop, naked.
I had similar plans but then our 38 degree C day turned into really serious thunder and lightening so I decided to give the naked roof standing a miss. The roof is steel and quite well grounded.
See below. It seems there is a bit of messing around with localtime in a flash application on the page. It can't show the number of seconds to 2010 during 2010.
Especially when the 32-bit time_t overflows. The good news is that most 64-bit OSes already uses a 64-bit time_t, but there still is the issue of truncation to 32-bit.
Putting it in 1970 is a pain. VMS at least put their zero date in 1858, where it is less likely to conflict with real dates. If course, VMS had 64 put support from the word go. Rebasing time_t would have created a horrible mess. Better to start again with a proper date type.
The problem for me is that there are a lot of books I would love to buy except they are out of print and second hand books are not available. So why can't I just go and download them? I assume the profit isn't there to go through the whole publishing thing, or the copyright holder can't be located.
If copyrights are not being used there should be a way to make the content available in digital form. I don't necessarily want it to be free.
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On a different note a guy who was fairly senior in a large ISP here told me that one of their subscribers send whattlooked like a suicide note over IRC. The person who spotted it got onto the ISP, who gave the billing address to the local police in that jurisdiction. They got there just in time.
(wakes up, looks around)
Is it 2010 now?
My son spent the last two weeks pleading for me to pay for an account on club penguin for him. Of course he won in the end. Now he is getting up early so he can log on through is mothers PC before we are awake...
I interpreted "They do not even allow religion in schools in any form" in this post to mean that anything relating to religion could not be mentioned.
I am an agnostic myself but I fail to see how you could teach the history of Europe while ignoring religion.
This is one of occasions where the French have it about right, they have separation of church and state. They do not even allow religion in schools in any form. I don't understand why people think it is ok to force their beliefs on me.
I am all for the separation of church and state. I believe we should start with Saudi Arabia and Israel. But why should you not teach religion in schools? Belief systems are knowledge are they not?
the leading party in Ireland has word fail in its name
Doesn't it mean something different in Gaelic?
I recall that one Christian leader here in Australia opposes laws against blasphemy because to be implemented properly they would have to protect all the religions we currently recognise. And that a lot.
Ireland and Saudi Arabia don't have the same problem of course.
The code which is business critical and necessarily complex gets commented a lot as a mitigation measure. But it still has problems, often because the business requirements change a lot or are poorly defined.
Christ, I know everyone has their own personal style and everything, but this is just pernicious. In any case, the author gives the game away: when he thinks code is overcommented, he can ask Emacs to hide the comments. So far as I know there's no automatic system that will generate the comments that the author failed to put in because the code was "self-documenting".
Yeah there is this guy I have the misfortune to be working with. Once in a code review he insisted that all my code be double spaced (one blank line between every line) because he was having trouble reading it. I said why don't you configure your editor accordingly. He said in his team they do pair programming so every workstation has to be set up exactly the same way...
I would rather
rewrite it than try to decipher it.
In the environment I work somebody will try to import your change later and they will want to know why you made that change. They aren't going to be very impressed if your answer is that you couldn't understand the original code. By making that change you would be creating work for a lot of other people down the chain.
I work on a really big hunk of C code and one place I would like to see more comments is in the start and end of blocks. This is because during the life of the code people come in and paste maybe 1000 lines of code from elsewhere into the block and totally stuff up the indenting so its hard to see what is supposed to match to what. This is particularly a problem with importing between branches (my job at the moment) because it can be hard to work out the original intent of the various nested blocks you wind up with.
Commented out code is a particular problem because my editor can count { and } but it doesn't know if some of those have been commented out, possibly asymmetrically.
Where I work comments get used to abuse people. You commit a message:
/*Hey $YOU dont do this again */
But a lot of the comments we have I can't even read because they have been collected by the code in one of the countries it has been to over the last 30 years or so. Many of them seem to be in French and Arabic.
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Thats actually really interesting because it means electronics can be integrated with the brain just by implanting them and waiting for nerve growth to complete the job.
I reject your reality and substitute my own.
go watch the fireworks from my rooftop, naked.
I had similar plans but then our 38 degree C day turned into really serious thunder and lightening so I decided to give the naked roof standing a miss. The roof is steel and quite well grounded.
I don't know what special relationship with mortality you have
I am a hacker. Many things are possible.
See below. It seems there is a bit of messing around with localtime in a flash application on the page. It can't show the number of seconds to 2010 during 2010.
Telecommando is obviously a time traveller.
Okay its 1524 on the 1st for me. I got the video.
Especially when the 32-bit time_t overflows. The good news is that most 64-bit OSes already uses a 64-bit time_t, but there still is the issue of truncation to 32-bit.
Shouldn't the 32 bit time_t expire in 2106?
The first link took me to a Rick Astley youtube video. Thankfully I was browsing with the sound muted.
Putting it in 1970 is a pain. VMS at least put their zero date in 1858, where it is less likely to conflict with real dates. If course, VMS had 64 put support from the word go. Rebasing time_t would have created a horrible mess. Better to start again with a proper date type.
I turn 45 this year you insensitive clod! Passing the top of the hill just means I am gaining momentum for the next climb, anyway.
BTW why does the summary point to a page which returns
(54) Connection reset by peer
Maybe the server is over the hill.
The problem for me is that there are a lot of books I would love to buy except they are out of print and second hand books are not available. So why can't I just go and download them? I assume the profit isn't there to go through the whole publishing thing, or the copyright holder can't be located.
If copyrights are not being used there should be a way to make the content available in digital form. I don't necessarily want it to be free.