The OS should minimize swapping. If you want to prevent the hdd from spinning up you HAVE to use the flash memory for the swapfile, otherwise.... well, the hdd spins up, it's not that difficult.
I think he knows the difference between copying bits and relocating a physical disc. I think what he meant is: Is a stealing worse (more evil) than copying? To make a fair compare, assume the DVD is stolen from a DVD store becz that's were copying has impact.
That should almost never happen except with non trivial algorithms.
If it's non-intuitive you should focus documenting on why these steps must be done. The code it self should make clear what/how it's done. If it's not clear what the code does, refactor it.
The grandparent example:
"test bit flag set by keyboard input routine - "1" value indicates input complete" is explaining what the code does. A little bit of refactoring and renaming variables makes the comments unnecessary.
I work like this: In the headers I specify exactly WHAT the function does, like you would document the interface of a library. If there is something non-intuitive going on I also explain why. Within the functions I hardly write comments. Just, read the interface documentation to know what it does and the code explains how it does that. I do summarize blocks of code with a one line comment but most of the time I break it up in functions with descriptive names.
If you ever write a comment within a function block, try to rewrite the code in a way that it looks like the comment, and remove it. Yes, all this means longer function names, use ctrl-P.
So you would rather have a secure OS and have those spam basterds conducting another kind of shady business unpunished than have a unsecure OS and a world with less evil?
Instead of a simple "report spam" link/button i would prefer a selection box with categories. While searching there would be an option to filter on categories so you can also remove results related to categories like "online shopping". Sure you can use -shop -buy and keywords like that but that doesn't work as well as a user based classification system.
That would be awful. I mean sure I can use the search field on MS site to search it but.. without google how would I get at the MS site in the first place?
Yes that's correct and most certainly annoying. Instead of fixing problems like that they're busy improving the GUI, I don't understand that. Before XP I never heard anyone complaining "this looks awfull", only "this is **** slow".
Re:Was this really illegel?
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That's not what I said, I clearly said deliberate. It's like stealing a car and putting some equalivant amount of cash in the owner's mailbox.
Re:Was this really illegel?
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These fines are not there for you to deliberate hold back a book. You should return them. It's a fine, not a price tag, you did't buy them.
That's not what he said. He's talking about paging out while still having the page in memory until memory gets realy low. This has the advantage that paging out to free up memory takes less time.
You can't label everything with laziness. Smileys are simply faster than typing it all out. Better efficiency does not necessary equal laziness becz the saved time can still be used in a productive way.
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I realy don't care about a few spelling mistakes.
The OS should minimize swapping. If you want to prevent the hdd from spinning up you HAVE to use the flash memory for the swapfile, otherwise.... well, the hdd spins up, it's not that difficult.
That doesn't really matter. It's about preventing the hdd to spin up. If that means storing a swapfile page on flash, then it has to be so.
Since NASA engineers don't read /. and slashdotter don't have common sense, I think that post was perfectly fit.
I think he knows the difference between copying bits and relocating a physical disc. I think what he meant is: Is a stealing worse (more evil) than copying? To make a fair compare, assume the DVD is stolen from a DVD store becz that's were copying has impact.
You are only a subset, he meant ALL consumers of an OS.
Now we only have to replace ourselfes with monkeys and ./ will be #1 again. Oooka booka
If it's non-intuitive you should focus documenting on why these steps must be done. The code it self should make clear what/how it's done. If it's not clear what the code does, refactor it.
The grandparent example: "test bit flag set by keyboard input routine - "1" value indicates input complete" is explaining what the code does. A little bit of refactoring and renaming variables makes the comments unnecessary.
I work like this: In the headers I specify exactly WHAT the function does, like you would document the interface of a library. If there is something non-intuitive going on I also explain why. Within the functions I hardly write comments. Just, read the interface documentation to know what it does and the code explains how it does that. I do summarize blocks of code with a one line comment but most of the time I break it up in functions with descriptive names.
If you ever write a comment within a function block, try to rewrite the code in a way that it looks like the comment, and remove it. Yes, all this means longer function names, use ctrl-P.
I wish even harder
Anti-gravity? Since you want to counteract gravity you better stay on earth then.
Add a clocking device and we're hunting for aliens in no time !
So you would rather have a secure OS and have those spam basterds conducting another kind of shady business unpunished than have a unsecure OS and a world with less evil?
The funny thing is that it doesn't realy matter if you search for something or nothing, in both cases it still takes 0.06, 0.05, 0.07 or 0.34 seconds.
Instead of a simple "report spam" link/button i would prefer a selection box with categories. While searching there would be an option to filter on categories so you can also remove results related to categories like "online shopping". Sure you can use -shop -buy and keywords like that but that doesn't work as well as a user based classification system.
That would be awful. I mean sure I can use the search field on MS site to search it but.. without google how would I get at the MS site in the first place?
Most of the time it's 0.06s, other values that appear often are 0.05s, 0.07s and 0.34s, I even had a 0.04s once.
Yes that's correct and most certainly annoying. Instead of fixing problems like that they're busy improving the GUI, I don't understand that. Before XP I never heard anyone complaining "this looks awfull", only "this is **** slow".
That's not what I said, I clearly said deliberate. It's like stealing a car and putting some equalivant amount of cash in the owner's mailbox.
These fines are not there for you to deliberate hold back a book. You should return them. It's a fine, not a price tag, you did't buy them.
That's not what he said. He's talking about paging out while still having the page in memory until memory gets realy low. This has the advantage that paging out to free up memory takes less time.
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hmmM 8| You bastard! Now I want rocket powered boots! I feel a depression coming up.
You can't label everything with laziness. Smileys are simply faster than typing it all out. Better efficiency does not necessary equal laziness becz the saved time can still be used in a productive way.
wrong? It's just plain Weird!
Why can't we use third party filesystems? Almost every other OS supports that.