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Re: printf("goodbye, Dennis");

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Post by jfb » Sat, Oct 22, 2011, 12:49 AM UTC

lemming wrote: post #29

jfb wrote: post #24

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.

For Americans, perhaps. The Guardian is also excellent - I subscribe to their weekly and it's fantastic.

The Guardian is excellent, but I maintain that The Economist is the best newspaper on the planet, at least in English, even as my politics are much more consonant with The Guardian.

Re: printf("goodbye, Dennis");

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Post by 6ren » Sat, Oct 22, 2011, 1:04 AM UTC

If iOS was derived from Mac OS X, isn't it also a unix? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS

EDIT thanks, misread it.

Re: printf("goodbye, Dennis");

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Post by cschmidt » Sat, Oct 22, 2011, 1:28 AM UTC

abc_lisper wrote: post #6

> Babbage used his first Sun Unix workstation at university in the 1980s It says so in the article. Which Babbage are they talking about?

Glenn Fleishman wrote this article, according to his tweets. (His twitter account is great fun to follow.) There are also other writers who post under the Babbage name.

Re: printf("goodbye, Dennis");

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Post by cschmidt » Sat, Oct 22, 2011, 1:30 AM UTC

jfb wrote: post #24

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.

Yes, indeed. It is truly the smart person's news source. There's also an audio edition, where they read the entire issue word for work, which is the best way to spend a long commute. (It takes 8 hours or so.) It is free for subscribers of either the print or online editions.

Re: printf("goodbye, Dennis");

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Post by ced » Sat, Oct 22, 2011, 1:44 AM UTC

I'm curious about what a world without Mr. Ritchie would look like. What were the popular alternatives to C and Unix in 1970?

Re: printf("goodbye, Dennis");

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Post by ansy » Sat, Oct 22, 2011, 1:48 AM UTC

jfb wrote: post #24

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.

I disagree with the Economist's lack of by-lines. Also, it has more of a dogmatic free market ideology than a bias [1]. Whether you agree with that ideology or not, I think it is bad journalism.

The Economist basically puts itself on the same level of China's People's Daily nationalist newspaper. Not matter how good the writing might be, it is just propaganda of a different sort.

[1] http://www.economist.com/help/about-us#About_The_Economist

Re: printf("goodbye, Dennis");

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Post by rodh257 » Sat, Oct 22, 2011, 2:00 AM UTC

6ren wrote: post #32

If iOS was derived from Mac OS X, isn't it also a unix? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS EDIT thanks, misread it.

yes, and the article mentions this twice

Re: printf("goodbye, Dennis");

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Post by bodyfour » Sat, Oct 22, 2011, 2:00 AM UTC

awflick wrote: post #3

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.

Based on the tone of the article I guess it was destined to be this weeks obituary, but Qaddafi died just before they went to press. So unfortunately it looks like dmr's obit is only online, unless they run it next week.

Re: printf("goodbye, Dennis");

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Post by getsat » Sat, Oct 22, 2011, 2:11 AM UTC

derefr wrote: post #28

djcapelis wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

(Right, I didn't mean to suggest it added a newline; just that adding a newline flushes the buffer, which was one half of the problem with missing a newline—but that if this is the only line of the program, this half of the problem is obviated.)

Adding a newline doesn't flush anything. You'd want to call fflush() to do that.

Re: printf("goodbye, Dennis");

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Post by bodyfour » Sat, Oct 22, 2011, 2:14 AM UTC

ansy wrote: post #36

jfb wrote: post #24

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.

I disagree with the Economist's lack of by-lines. Also, it has more of a dogmatic free market ideology than a bias [1]. Whether you agree with that ideology or not, I think it is bad journalism. The Economist basically puts itself on the same level of China's People's Daily nationalist newspaper. Not matter how good the writing might be, it is just propaganda of a different sort. [1] http://www.economist.com/help/abo…

I can't argue that their ideological bent is pretty strong (and not one I altogether share, really) but the financial and international reporting is consistently superb. Even though I disagree with them often, I always learn something in the process.