Seen in a code review (paraphrased):

“Why does this break when you add comments in the middle?”

Similar to how more people have heard of Lockerbie than any other Scottish town of 5000 people.

Reminds of this bucket-line system

Had the same email address for 27 years…

Seems excessive to convert everything to rust when you can use std::shared_ptr and std::weak_ptr to eliminate the memory safety issue?

From listening to deviant’s talks, deadlatches still seem to be widely misunderstood.

Y2K maths! (1998, 1999, 19100)

but it’s a thousand more than eleventy eleven?

Human drivers have done this before. Navigation system says “turn right”, they don’t realise it means after the level crossing.

• 1st world = US, NATO, and their allies.
• 2nd world = USSR, China, the Warsaw Pact, and their allies.
• 3rd world = everyone else.

e.g. Switzerland would be a 3rd world country by the original definition.

What they mean is that the variable names and function names are documentation.

For example changing “for( i in getList() )” to “for( patient in getTodaysAppointments() )” is giving the reader more information that might negate the need for a comment.

♫ If you wanna get a tapeworm, eat some pork! ♫

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Medireview

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/14/bofh_2024_episode_11/ “the boss wants an AI pc. This wouldn’t rankle as much if the boss had any “I” of his own to work with”

That is essentially what the “Post-Open Source” idea is trying to do.

That, and hosting & domains got expensive. It used to be a trivial cost to have a website, now the prices are all “introductory offers” with asterisks.

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