May 2009
9 posts
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The Zen Master
I just met my first C zen master on IRC. After he thorougly demolished my belief that it’s even possible for me to learn all of C with this:
Zhivago: We write a pointer to int[3] in C as int (*)[3].
… he goes on with this gem after my astonishment:
Zhivago: nevyn: One of the most valuable things that we can do is to learn to appreciate just how grotesquely ignorant we are.
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The value is limitless
(gdb) p (double)pow(10, 6)
$9 = inf
What. The. Fuck?! Do I need to relearn C AGAIN?!
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xib + subversion + automerge = pain
Don’t let Subversion automerge your xib files. This error isn’t even on the freakin’ google:
ibtool: some object IDs were duplicated
You can work around this by 1) telling subversion the file can’t be merged by setting its mime type to application/octet-stream 2) requiring the file to be svn locked before you edit it for an exclusive lock. You can tell your subversion...
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– @boredzo & @mikeysan
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– Marie ”Emma” Andersson i Expressen Debatt. Ännu ett guldkorn:
“Problemet” med ett utmanarparti av den här typen skulle kunna lösas väldigt enkelt genom att våra rättigheter återinförs. Skulle frågor om integritet, mänskliga rättigheter, rättssäkerhet och proportionalitet drivas mer...
