The code comes from the Linux kernel: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/kernel/groups.c
Hacker Typer: How To Look Insanely Busy In A Coffee Shop (2011)
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Re: Hacker Typer: How To Look Insanely Busy In A Coffee Shop (2011)
#12Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2480946
Another: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3997664
Re: Hacker Typer: How To Look Insanely Busy In A Coffee Shop (2011)
#13This has been posted so many times, very old
Re: Hacker Typer: How To Look Insanely Busy In A Coffee Shop (2011)
#14It's not hilarous on an iPad 1. Nothing happens beside the prompt blink. How could I look insanely busy with that in a coffee shop ? ;)
Re: Hacker Typer: How To Look Insanely Busy In A Coffee Shop (2011)
#15OT but this is the first time I've seen the ternary operator used with only one operand. Apparently, it's only valid in GNU C though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%3F:#C
I've seen it used a lot in Objective-C for default values:
NSNumber *value = dict[@"key"] ?: @1;Re: Hacker Typer: How To Look Insanely Busy In A Coffee Shop (2011)
#16I cracked up when I tried this. Not sure why
Re: Hacker Typer: How To Look Insanely Busy In A Coffee Shop (2011)
#17Can we get a (2011) appended, please?
Sources:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2480946
Re: Hacker Typer: How To Look Insanely Busy In A Coffee Shop (2011)
#18It's not hilarous on an iPad 1. Nothing happens beside the prompt blink. How could I look insanely busy with that in a coffee shop ? ;)
Can't look busy on my phone either.
Re: Hacker Typer: How To Look Insanely Busy In A Coffee Shop (2011)
#19Ahhhh, so this is how Win8 was written.
Re: Hacker Typer: How To Look Insanely Busy In A Coffee Shop (2011)
#20I once wrote a quick Java program that recorded our project's build output (about 5 minute's worth at the time) and captured the time between each line of the output. Then it could play back the build output at the same pace. I could run that in a loop in a shell window and I could nap for an hour while it looked like I was waiting on a build to finish. We joked about having a screensaver that looked like code being…
Why not just write a script to continuously run the build?