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The author briefly touched a large topic: Excessive shorthand.
Excessive shorthand is:
- Well-known in one subculture (such as C-style language devs)
- Initially confusing to outsiders
- Problematic for far-off future devs who don't know past languages and frameworks
A better example: Lots of C# shorthand in one statement:
public long MyDistance { get; set; } = 0L; Long-time C# devs know instantly what it means. It looks like garbage to outsiders.
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to be fair, most of the stuff they've added with C# 8 looks like garbage to me.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Quote: Christopher Tozzi, who does not write code, but just looks at it, said:
Here are some guidelines that are almost universally accepted ... And then demanded that everyone follow guidelines that he prefers, and not follow "almost universally accepted" guidelines that are not to his preference.
As John said, his declaring the almost universally accepted i++ as being "ambiguous" is ridiculous -- it has one and only one meaning, and everyone knows that meaning.
Perhaps this non-coding "writer" should learn how to use a dictionary, before opening his mouth, and focus on doing his own job properly, before bitching at the way professional coders do theirs.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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++i must send him into fits.
I just want to code for loops at him to see how long it takes him to have an aneurysm.
for(int ic=list.Count,i=0;i<ic;++i);
TAKE THAT MISTER NAGGY MAN!
or one of my favorite C# iteration constructs
string line;
while(null!=(line=reader.ReadLine());
i'm sure everyone hates me for that.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Well, seeing how it violates at least two typical coding standard tenets I can see why.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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only two? rules were made to be broken.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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You rebel, you.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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In other words it comes down to community standards, just like pornography. One person's art is another person's smut.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Except for Perl. That's always smut
TTFN - Kent
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Got Fortigate or Pulse Secure? Now would be a good time to make sure they're patched. Why we can't have nice things, part 13379
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Real men create their own VPN software.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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The project uses Rust and WebAssembly to allow playback of Flash media more securely than the original Adobe player Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if anyone cared if they did
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Let's hope the story isn't larger than it appears.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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This blog post discusses the small but complex switching power supplies that helped make the AGC compact enough to fit onboard the spacecraft. In related news - the power supply on my PC burned out again the other day
OK, that was fiction - I don't actually use a PC. I just whisper to the hamsters.
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The supposed grievance? Allowing talk attendees to challenge CEO Robert Grant as he tried to pitch them on so-called quasi-prime numbers and "Time AI™." I'm sure that will change their minds
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And I am sure that will make a big difference to someones life style
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: And I am sure that will make a big difference to someones life style No idea.
I accidentally leaned on the spacebar and arrived at this link[^], and I never got back to read the article.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Lest anyone be fooled into thinking 'quasi-prime' numbers is a legitimate mathematical concept (emphasis mine):
Grant's presentation, entitled "Discovery of Quasi-Prime Numbers: What Does this Mean for Encryption," was based on a paper called "Accurate and Infinite Prime Prediction from a Novel Quasi-PrimeAnalytical Methodology." That work was published in March of 2019 through Cornell University's arXiv.org by Grant's co-author Talal Ghannam—a physicist who has self-published a book called The Mystery of Numbers: Revealed through their Digital Root as well as a comic book called The Chronicles of Maroof the Knight: The Byzantine. The paper, a slim five pages, focuses on the use of digital root analysis (a type of calculation that has been used in occult numerology) to rapidly identify prime numbers and a sort of multiplication table for factoring primes.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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How can a number be quasi-prime? Either it has multiple factors or it doesn't.
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That reminds of someone who posted an article hear earlier this year or late last regarding some factoring algorithm he had come up with. He was quite arrogant about it and obstinate when no one fawned over him.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Google is adding a built-in data breach notification service to the Chrome browser that will alert users when they are logging into sites with credentials that have been exposed by breaches. If not, it will load your password into the next one
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A man accused of murdering his girlfriend in southeast China was caught after facial recognition software suggested he had tried to scan a dead person’s face to apply for a loan. "Hello Mr. Yakamoto and welcome back to the GAP!" (apologies, kind of gruesome - trigger warning and all that)
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As fortunate as this one scenario is, I don't think the Chinese surveillance state is something I'd want to live under.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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honey the codewitch wrote: I don't think the Chinese any surveillance state is something I'd want to live under. FTFY
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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