qwph

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GPG Cheatsheet(charleslockhart.com)
1 points by qwph 18y ago|0 comments
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by qwph 18y ago
Why stop at SourceForge - they should probably sue Dell, Microsoft and Tim Berners-Lee as well, as I heard a lot of people use PCs, Windows and the internet for activities which potentially infringe record companies' copyright...
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The Development of the C Language (Dennis Ritchie)(plan9.bell-labs.com)
8 points by qwph 18y ago|1 comments
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by qwph 18y ago
I think this is the non-scribd version: http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/pllc.pdf
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by qwph 18y ago
Yeah, that's what the interpreter says... :(
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by qwph 18y ago
Python and Ruby are pretty equivalent in terms of what you can do with them. Given a choice between the two, I'd probably choose Ruby, as I personally find it to be less cognitively dissonant than Python. I'm really not fond of having to ha
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The Toggle that Wouldn't(thedailywtf.com)
10 points by qwph 18y ago|1 comments
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by qwph 18y ago
Soldering up a bunch of electrodes, hooking them up to a power source and strapping the whole lot to your head? What could possibly go wrong? (I'd read this first though: http://openeeg.sourceforge.net/doc/WARNING.html )
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by qwph 18y ago
Yeah, if you have more tests than actual code, that would seem to indicate something's gone wrong somewhere. And I'd agree that no amount of testing is going to turn an O(n) algorithm into an O(log n) one. There's no substitute for sitting
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by qwph 18y ago
That's not an exclusive or though. If you have a proof of your code's correctness, I'd still like to see it being regressed against any changes to the code. Ideally the more different methods you have for validating that your code is doing
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by qwph 18y ago
You can actually use setjmp()/longjmp() to implement that kind of thing, it turns out. Here's but one example: http://www.on-time.com/ddj0011.htm I'm almost tempted to make an analogy with scheme's (call-with-current-continuation) here, b
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by qwph 18y ago
The stability of any system is roughly proportional to how much automated testing is done against it.
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by qwph 18y ago
I'm still not convinced that there's anything particularly magical about C here. Reliable programs are written by people who: * understand the problem domain * know the implementation language and its supporting library * pay attention to
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by qwph 18y ago
If exit() is too abrupt, you can always use setjmp() and longjmp() to set up a non-local jump to an error handler.
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by qwph 18y ago
"September 1993 will go down in net.history as the September that never ended." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_september
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by qwph 18y ago
"Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers..."
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by qwph 18y ago
Sympathies to the OP, but my general rule for all data: if it doesn't exist in two places, it doesn't exist. (A lesson I also learned the hard way.)
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by qwph 18y ago
That probably depends on where it is. ;)
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by qwph 18y ago
This makes me wonder how many amazing species have been lost through deforestation without us ever knowing what benefits they could have had...
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by qwph 18y ago
If I ran a newspaper, I'd have both articles already written, so I could hit the press as soon as the result was confirmed...
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by qwph 18y ago
I'd like to come but I work in Burnaby, so could only do weekends/evenings. I'll send you a mail anyway...
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by qwph 18y ago
I quite like this one: 4.4: People keep saying the behavior is undefined, but I just tried it on an ANSI conforming compiler, and got the results I expected. They were probably wrong. Flame them mercilessly. Be sure before you do that yo
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by qwph 18y ago
I find it odd that that the more people there are in the world, and the more technology there is, the harder we all have to work. It seems counter-intuitive.
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by qwph 18y ago
Youth is wasted on the young...
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by qwph 18y ago
I think it's a Halloween special...
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by qwph 18y ago
I agree.
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by qwph 18y ago
Bush is a national socialist That's an interesting choice of words.
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The Three Great Virtues of a Programmer(c2.com)
1 points by qwph 18y ago|0 comments
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by qwph 18y ago
Hardly anyone knows anything about Karl Marx nowadays...
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by qwph 18y ago
Death is not necessary to give life meaning. That's an unfalsifiable statement, I'm afraid.

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