21–30 of 109 posts
Its a bit sad but the obituary is often the best article in the economist. In this case it was a very fitting tribute to a tech hero.
I disagree, but that doesn't mean that I don't turn to the obituary page immediately on receipt of each week's issue. jfb: bringing down the median subscriber income of The Economist for 20 years.
I wonder if their subscriber income stats aren't heavily bifurcated.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
"\n" is a linebreak which would guarantee the text is printed and place whatever output came afterwards on the next line.
Isn't the output stream at least guaranteed to be flushed once on completion of the program, though?
Flushing doesn't automatically add newlines for you in C. It flushes the buffers you gave it, it doesn't make new stuff up to print out along with your buffers.
It would be pure class if wasn't for the late Mr. Jobs mention. Surely, one can think of hundreds of more concrete examples that C enabled other than iOS, like, i don't know, the Internet?
"Linus Torvalds ... reinvented Unix for the internet age"
"Unix-like systems power several hundred million Apple and Android mobile devices, most internet firms' server farms"
> Babbage used his first Sun Unix workstation at university in the 1980s It says so in the article. Which Babbage are they talking about?
Probably the author - though why they stated it like that I haven't a clue. "About Babbage In this blog, our correspondents report on the intersections between science, technology, culture and policy. The blog takes its name from Charles Babbage, a Victorian mathematician and engineer who designed a mechanical computer"
I've seen the use of "this Babbage" in contexts where e.g. the New York Times would say "this reporter". This would seem to acknowledge that there are multiple authors for these blogs; they can be identified by initials and location at the top of the piece. This one's author, "G.F.", is Glenn Fleishman of Seattle Times and TidBITS fame.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't the output stream at least guaranteed to be flushed once on completion of the program, though?
Yes, it flushes completely outputting all characters. None of which contain a newline. Flushing doesn't automatically add newlines for you in C. It flushes the buffers you gave it, it doesn't make new stuff up to print out along with your buffers.
People who don't regularly read The Economist probably ought to. It wears its biases on its sleeve, and is the only place in the English language press to find quality, in-depth coverage of parts of the world other than the Lower East Side and the Isle of Dogs.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I disagree, but that doesn't mean that I don't turn to the obituary page immediately on receipt of each week's issue. jfb: bringing down the median subscriber income of The Economist for 20 years.
I've helped drag down the median for about 10 years myself. I wonder if their subscriber income stats aren't heavily bifurcated.