I’ve been running into a good deal of bad computer code lately. Here’s an example from an actual tutorial. I’ve renamed the variable to protect the shameless:
if (count == 0) return false;
return true;
Why not this:
return (count != 0);
There are some god-forsaken languages in which returning the evaluation of a boolean expression is not valid [...]
OOHanzi 0.7 has been released.
As usually please refer to the documentation to know how to use it.
I have not been able to work on getting OOHanzi to work on OS X so I presume it still does not work.
List of changes:
* Updated packaging dependencies for Ubuntu 9.04.
* Performance improvements in “Mark Words Present In…”.
* Added [...]
Vintage ads is on a roll:
Bloody… hell… In which universe is this a winning strategy?
Captain Morgan: the choice of horny creeps everywhere.
This ad just boggles the mind:
I like to look at old ads for fun. A good deal of our culturally based assumptions do not stand the test of time and so look ridiculous seen from the vantage point of a later age. I’ve seen the ad above many times on sites dedicated to [...]
