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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 po…

I think this is the non-scribd version: http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/pllc.pdf

Yeah, that's what the interpreter says... :(

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 cognitivel…

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://op…

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) algori…

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 differ…

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 anal…

The stability of any system is roughly proportional to how much automated testing is done against it.

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 implementat…

If exit() is too abrupt, you can always use setjmp() and longjmp() to set up a non-local jump to an error handler.

"September 1993 will go down in net.history as the September that never ended." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_september

"Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers..."

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.)

That probably depends on where it is. ;)

This makes me wonder how many amazing species have been lost through deforestation without us ever knowing what benefits they could have had...

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...

I'd like to come but I work in Burnaby, so could only do weekends/evenings. I'll send you a mail anyway...

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 wro…

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.

Youth is wasted on the young...