Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-28 Thread Eris Discordia
In fact, we have both printed on paper hanging from the wall of the corridor near our office. Let's hope they learn. Learn to... 1. ... not comment their code? 2. ... not include usage instructions? 3. ... not heed that their code might need to compile on any one of a number of platforms

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-28 Thread Jack Johnson
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:54 AM, andrey mirtchovski mirtchov...@gmail.com wrote: try as you might, the irony is unescapable (see the attached helpful suggestion by google). It sounds like a competition. Write a program that, when translated by Google into Czech, still produces valid output.

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-28 Thread hiro
On 3/29/10, Eris Discordia eris.discor...@gmail.com wrote: In fact, we have both printed on paper hanging from the wall of the corridor near our office. Let's hope they learn. Learn to... 1. ... not comment their code? 2. ... not include usage instructions? 3. ... not heed that their

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-28 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Sorry if I'm feeding the troll, but... On 29 March 2010 00:05, Eris Discordia eris.discor...@gmail.com wrote: 1. ... not comment their code? Comments lie. Code can't. Hence clarity of code is better than commented theses. 2. ... not include usage instructions? $ man cat 4. ... not include

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-28 Thread hiro
On 3/25/10, blstu...@bellsouth.net blstu...@bellsouth.net wrote: It's this kind of intellectual ugliness that makes the teacher in me hang my head in shame. How could we be managing to produce a whole generation of programmers who actually buy into that stuff? And it's not as if it's a fad

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-26 Thread Tim Newsham
http://code.google.com/p/unix-jun72/source/browse/trunk/src/cmd/cat.s Which returns 1062 lines of HTML+Javascript, completely unreadable in Abaco. The irony is stunning. URL to the raw file; 50% less irony: http://unix-jun72.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/cmd/cat.s --lyndon Tim Newsham |

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-26 Thread hugo rivera
2010/3/25 Francisco J Ballesteros n...@lsub.org: In fact, we have both printed on paper hanging from the wall of the corridor near our office. Let's hope they learn. This is a great idea. I think I'll copy it :-) -- Hugo

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-26 Thread andrey mirtchovski
URL to the raw file; 50% less irony: http://unix-jun72.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/cmd/cat.s try as you might, the irony is unescapable (see the attached helpful suggestion by google). attachment: czech.png

[9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-25 Thread erik quanstrom
http://lwn.net/Articles/378219/ [...] anything which combines tricky locking and 30-line preprocessor macros is going to raise eyebrows. But the core concept here is simple: [...] oh, really? - erik

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-25 Thread maht
On 25/03/2010 14:08, erik quanstrom wrote: http://lwn.net/Articles/378219/ [...] anything which combines tricky locking and 30-line preprocessor macros is going to raise eyebrows. But the core concept here is simple: [...] oh, really? - erik Trying to acquire one

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-25 Thread ron minnich
It just keeps getting better: $ hugeadm --create-global-mounts $ hugeadm --pool-pages-max DEFAULT:8G $ hugeadm --set-recommended-min_free_kbytes $ hugeadm --set-recommended-shmmax $ hugeadm --pool-pages-min DEFAULT:2048MB $ hugeadm --pool-pages-max DEFAULT:8192MB In this

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-25 Thread Corey Thomasson
Not really related, but I got a good laugh from this. As soon as I opened this email in gmail, the targeted ad changed to Editing xml is difficult. Followed by some stuff about Xopus xml editor, but still. On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:56 PM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: It just keeps

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-25 Thread maht
On 25/03/2010 17:11, Corey Thomasson wrote: Not really related, but I got a good laugh from this. As soon as I opened this email in gmail, the targeted ad changed to Editing xml is difficult. well that is true, the following snippets are not the same, the second has two more nodes

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-25 Thread Robert Raschke
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:15 PM, maht maht-9f...@maht0x0r.net wrote: On 25/03/2010 17:11, Corey Thomasson wrote: Not really related, but I got a good laugh from this. As soon as I opened this email in gmail, the targeted ad changed to Editing xml is difficult. well that is true, the

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-25 Thread blstuart
It's this kind of intellectual ugliness that makes the teacher in me hang my head in shame. How could we be managing to produce a whole generation of programmers who actually buy into that stuff? And it's not as if it's a fad that's getting better. If anything it's getting worse. Somehow we've

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-25 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Mar 25 12:58:22 EDT 2010, rminn...@gmail.com wrote: It just keeps getting better: $ hugeadm --create-global-mounts $ hugeadm --pool-pages-max DEFAULT:8G $ hugeadm --set-recommended-min_free_kbytes $ hugeadm --set-recommended-shmmax $ hugeadm --pool-pages-min

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-25 Thread David Leimbach
The efficiency of XML when being processed by computers or humans proves that it's neither machine nor human readable, despite all the advertising. Dave On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Corey Thomasson cthom.li...@gmail.comwrote: Not really related, but I got a good laugh from this. As soon

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-25 Thread Patrick Kelly
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:31:20 -0300, blstu...@bellsouth.net wrote: It's this kind of intellectual ugliness that makes the teacher in me hang my head in shame. How could we be managing to produce a whole generation of programmers who actually buy into that stuff? And it's not as if it's a fad

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-25 Thread blstuart
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:31:20 -0300, blstu...@bellsouth.net wrote: It's this kind of intellectual ugliness that makes the teacher in me hang my head in shame. How could we be managing to produce a whole generation of programmers who actually buy into that stuff? And ... I assume you

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-25 Thread andrey mirtchovski
in similar vein, there's this handful guide on how to make your life really hard in 11 easy steps: http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/unix_file_replacement.html make sure you check out the final copy.c linked at the bottom of the page

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-25 Thread erik quanstrom
make sure you check out the final copy.c linked at the bottom of the page don't follow this link. it is a trojan that will eat into your brain and turn it into grey goo. ☺ - erik

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-25 Thread blstuart
in similar vein, there's this handful guide on how to make your life really hard in 11 easy steps: http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/unix_file_replacement.html make sure you check out the final copy.c linked at the bottom of the page It's a sign of the apocalypse. The configuration of the

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-25 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
As a example for our students we use http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=src/cat.c;hb=HEAD versus http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/cat.c In fact, we have both printed on paper hanging from the wall of the corridor near our office. Let's hope they

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-25 Thread Patrick Kelly
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:17:30 -0300, Francisco J Ballesteros n...@lsub.org wrote: As a example for our students we use http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=src/cat.c;hb=HEAD I'm going to have nightmares tonight... versus

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-25 Thread Tim Newsham
As a example for our students we use http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=src/cat.c;hb=HEAD versus http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/cat.c In fact, we have both printed on paper hanging from the wall of the corridor near our office. Let's hope they

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-25 Thread Patrick Kelly
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:58:30 -0300, Tim Newsham news...@lava.net wrote: As a example for our students we use http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=src/cat.c;hb=HEAD versus http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/cat.c In fact, we have both printed on

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-25 Thread Justin Jackson
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Patrick Kelly kameo76...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:58:30 -0300, Tim Newsham news...@lava.net wrote: As a example for our students we use http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=src/cat.c;hb=HEAD versus

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-25 Thread erik quanstrom
403 /* Output the newline. */ 404 405 *bpout++ = '\n'; oddly, for such an obvious comment, it's not exactly what the code does, and somewhat misleading. that code just puts a newline in a buffer and increments a pointer. outputting is elsewhere. - erik

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-25 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
You should also add: http://code.google.com/p/unix-jun72/source/browse/trunk/src/cmd/cat.s Which returns 1062 lines of HTML+Javascript, completely unreadable in Abaco. The irony is stunning. --lyndon

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-25 Thread Anthony Sorace
You should also add: http://code.google.com/p/unix-jun72/source/browse/trunk/src/cmd/cat.s Which returns 1062 lines of HTML+Javascript, completely unreadable in Abaco. not to spoil the irony, but that works here. it drops indentation, but that hardly qualifies as completely unreadable.

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-25 Thread Corey Thomasson
I wish I had that link the other day! Got into a debate about gnu cat etc. With a member of the local LUG. On Thursday, March 25, 2010, Tim Newsham news...@lava.net wrote: As a example for our students we use http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=src/cat.c;hb=HEAD