Code to comment ratio is desired at 1:1 (at least in the commercial world)
I believe code-to-comment ratio is one of the things Ohloh tracks -- but it can't even figure that out for everyone.
For example, Perl modules are often documented in POD, rather than "normal" comments beginning with #, but Ohloh doesn't know how to parse Pod and so consider lots of well-documented modules to be nearly completely uncommented.
(That would be sort of as if they only counted// comments in Java source but not any in/**... */ Javadoc comments.)
One potentially large problem -- for the eyepatch and jolly roger set, anyway -- with The Pirate Bay's ubiquity is that it's now a single point of attack for the xxAAs. It doesn't really matter what Swedish law says, eventually the industry will get it shut down, whether that means buying new laws, planting child porn on the operators, or just plain having them kidnapped and flown to the US for "trial".
That reminds me of what I read about this Russian company that distributed DRM-free MP3 music (allofmp3.com? Not sure what the name was).
Apparently, the US government leaned on the Russian government and asked them to crack down on the company before Russia'd get much further in trade negotiations.
Now imagine the xxAA leaning on the US government which leans on Sweden's government, and see how long it takes till TPB goes down, legal situation or no.
I have this one, too, and I agree that it's great.
I wanted a phone that can call and send/receive text messages, and it's very easy to do both on this phone. It's small, durable, easy-to-user, and the B/W display helps contribute to the battery lifetime.
I'd recommend it, too, if you can still get hold of one.
Though "fast servers" are a thing of the past - I think they got rid of paid-user-only servers quite a while ago.
They have something similar with "express lane", though, where the load balancer has two queues, one for paid users and one for free ones, and paid users get priority when site usage is high and requests queue up faster than they can be served.
I've heard both of those addresses. I think I read about them in a book by him, and that the 'askbill' one was for employees who can just drop him a line and ask him a question or tell him about their project or something, and the 'billg' one was the generic address.
but instead of bitching about the inconsistencies in the Alexander Hamilton article, why doesn't he contribute? Raise the average, dammit!
I imagine for a similar reason why people who bitch about their jeans falling apart don't grow their own cotton and make their own clothes.
They could, but they have another job, and they expect their clothing to fulfil its purpose without their having to worry about it.
Similarly, he wants to derive useful information from an article he reads, and not have to help make it useful. Division of labour, if you will: not everyone should have to be an editor.
I also really like the quick navigation they introduced not long ago -- I mean, they had a "delete and go to next/previous message" link for ages (which Gmail doesn't - it takes two clicks to trash and then open the next message), but now you can do not only that from the keyboard (Ctrl+Space, d, comma/full stop) but also things such as "move to folder FOO and then display folder BAR for me" or "mark unread and go to next message" or the like.
I'm not sure whether the "WIS Bar" program I'm running is the same as the one mentioned above (the one I have says "modified version by Pelmar"), but I find it extremely handy.
It's an add-on that lets me see a list of currently running programs and switch between them easily, shows me the time, date, memory usage, and battery status in the top, lets me close programs, go to the Today page quickly, and control the speaker volume.
Or Bigfoot, which was an email forwarding service that was "free for life", then switched to "if you sign up to receive ads, you can receive up to 25 regular messages a day; any more than that you and you have to sign up for a paid account".
And what about email? Badly addressed email is replied to with a bounce message. What happens when it goes to Verisign?
When they had SiteFinder up, they also had a really simple app running on port 25 which would give positive responses to the first three SMTP commands and a negative one for the fourth, then close the connection (IIRC).
Typically, the first three commands would be HELO/EHLO, MAIL, and RCPT, and the fourth would be DATA - but the app didn't check that.
So basically, it was set up to log all the recipient addresses in mistyped domains, along with the corresponding sender.
I remember those from when I was a schoolkid. Never was much good at them, though.
...and I also remember converting about half of one into some program on the networked Z80 machines we had back then; the program allowed you to create a number of pages with (I believe) up to 10 options to leave each page. I had to quit when I was taking up too much disk space which they needed for other students.
If you really want "island-wide" access, I suppose you'd need quite a few. But most of the population is clustered in the 14 villages, so setting up one point per village would be a good start already. (Tough luck for the farmers out in their fields who want to check the current taro prices, though.)
Why use.GIF at all then? If you want crappy RLE then just use.PCX. Remember those?
Yes, I remember those.
I'd say a reason to use GIFs is if you're putting them up on the web. While most image editing programs can read both GIF and PCX, most browsers I know don't support PCX but do support GIF.
So if you create a file that's a valid GIF, then browsers will be able to read it. If you create a PCX format file, they won't.
You basically get the choice between a moderately-compressed image that the user can see, a moderately-compressed image that the user can't see, and a decently-compressed image that you have to pay tons of money for. Which of those three sounds best?
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I believe code-to-comment ratio is one of the things Ohloh tracks -- but it can't even figure that out for everyone.
For example, Perl modules are often documented in POD, rather than "normal" comments beginning with #, but Ohloh doesn't know how to parse Pod and so consider lots of well-documented modules to be nearly completely uncommented.
(That would be sort of as if they only counted // comments in Java source but not any in /** ... */ Javadoc comments.)
That reminds me of what I read about this Russian company that distributed DRM-free MP3 music (allofmp3.com? Not sure what the name was).
Apparently, the US government leaned on the Russian government and asked them to crack down on the company before Russia'd get much further in trade negotiations.
Now imagine the xxAA leaning on the US government which leans on Sweden's government, and see how long it takes till TPB goes down, legal situation or no.
Now what we need is a new version of HTTP that allows "Referrer" to be spelled correctly.
I have this one, too, and I agree that it's great.
I wanted a phone that can call and send/receive text messages, and it's very easy to do both on this phone. It's small, durable, easy-to-user, and the B/W display helps contribute to the battery lifetime.
I'd recommend it, too, if you can still get hold of one.
Though "fast servers" are a thing of the past - I think they got rid of paid-user-only servers quite a while ago.
They have something similar with "express lane", though, where the load balancer has two queues, one for paid users and one for free ones, and paid users get priority when site usage is high and requests queue up faster than they can be served.
BSD is dying because it isn't digitally signed.
I've heard both of those addresses. I think I read about them in a book by him, and that the 'askbill' one was for employees who can just drop him a line and ask him a question or tell him about their project or something, and the 'billg' one was the generic address.
2.0.36 was also one of the first kernels I installed... since it was the first one (IIRC) to support VFAT.
"Hoist" is the standard form in that phrase. The other error is the greengrocer's plural "customer's".
I imagine for a similar reason why people who bitch about their jeans falling apart don't grow their own cotton and make their own clothes.
They could, but they have another job, and they expect their clothing to fulfil its purpose without their having to worry about it.
Similarly, he wants to derive useful information from an article he reads, and not have to help make it useful. Division of labour, if you will: not everyone should have to be an editor.
I also really like the quick navigation they introduced not long ago -- I mean, they had a "delete and go to next/previous message" link for ages (which Gmail doesn't - it takes two clicks to trash and then open the next message), but now you can do not only that from the keyboard (Ctrl+Space, d, comma/full stop) but also things such as "move to folder FOO and then display folder BAR for me" or "mark unread and go to next message" or the like.
I likes me my Fastmail account!
I'm not sure whether the "WIS Bar" program I'm running is the same as the one mentioned above (the one I have says "modified version by Pelmar"), but I find it extremely handy.
It's an add-on that lets me see a list of currently running programs and switch between them easily, shows me the time, date, memory usage, and battery status in the top, lets me close programs, go to the Today page quickly, and control the speaker volume.
I recommend it highly.
Or Bigfoot, which was an email forwarding service that was "free for life", then switched to "if you sign up to receive ads, you can receive up to 25 regular messages a day; any more than that you and you have to sign up for a paid account".
Well, given that we already know that "IE is part of the operating system", it just makes sense...
(/me is reminded of the HTTP server in the kernel, which actually was implemented.)
and also a really badly Photoshopped picture of some keys on a keyboard - the letters' perspective distortion doesn't match the keys *at all*.
And what about email? Badly addressed email is replied to with a bounce message. What happens when it goes to Verisign?
When they had SiteFinder up, they also had a really simple app running on port 25 which would give positive responses to the first three SMTP commands and a negative one for the fourth, then close the connection (IIRC).
Typically, the first three commands would be HELO/EHLO, MAIL, and RCPT, and the fourth would be DATA - but the app didn't check that.
So basically, it was set up to log all the recipient addresses in mistyped domains, along with the corresponding sender.
Ooh, Choose Your Own Adventure books!
I remember those from when I was a schoolkid. Never was much good at them, though.
...and I also remember converting about half of one into some program on the networked Z80 machines we had back then; the program allowed you to create a number of pages with (I believe) up to 10 options to leave each page. I had to quit when I was taking up too much disk space which they needed for other students.
Ah, the memories.
's what my SO gave me, too.
Thank you, dear.
And here I thought they were referring to the "World Wildlife Fund" which became the "World Wide Fund for Nature".
On one of my domains, I use a CGI script that returns mailto: links.
Then I can use, for example,
and have the address visible in plain text for copy-and-pasting (with @-to-@ entity replacement to foil simple-minded spambots and added links to foil slightly more sophisticated bots that nevertheless rely on an unbroken string).mailto.cgi, then, takes the "user=fred" parameter and returns Location: mailto:fred@example.com.
If you really want "island-wide" access, I suppose you'd need quite a few. But most of the population is clustered in the 14 villages, so setting up one point per village would be a good start already. (Tough luck for the farmers out in their fields who want to check the current taro prices, though.)
Yes, this is pretty messed up...
And the compression is pretty abysmal.
Still, what an idea.
Why use .GIF at all then? If you want crappy RLE then just use .PCX. Remember those?
Yes, I remember those.
I'd say a reason to use GIFs is if you're putting them up on the web. While most image editing programs can read both GIF and PCX, most browsers I know don't support PCX but do support GIF.
So if you create a file that's a valid GIF, then browsers will be able to read it. If you create a PCX format file, they won't.
You basically get the choice between a moderately-compressed image that the user can see, a moderately-compressed image that the user can't see, and a decently-compressed image that you have to pay tons of money for. Which of those three sounds best?
Liechtenstein is .li
My favourite page to look such things up is http://www.norid.no/domenenavnbaser/domreg.html
I once spent a couple of days in a company that used 6.0.0.0/8 for their private intranet... I wonder what the DoD thought of that.