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Quotes of the week
I personally believe LLVM is the latest shiny thing. It's not better
than gcc, it's just the new new new new cloud cloud cloud! equivalent of
compiler technology so everyone is falling over themselves to get on an
LLVM bandwagon in time to fragment the existing support we have, thus
requiring support for two compilers over just one. But that's a
digression. Suffice it to say, I'm not a fanboy.
— Jon Masters
public boolean isUserAGoat ()
— Android
4.2 reference manual
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Quote of the week Posted Nov 15, 2012 16:45 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] See the very important Chromium bug 31482.
Quotes of the week Posted Nov 16, 2012 18:13 UTC (Fri) by knobunc (subscriber, #4678) [Link]
Ironic that the other Jon Masters QOTW in this issue is praising standardization, and here appears to be arguing against...
-- I for one do mourn POSIX, and standardization in general. I think it's very sad that a lot of stuff these days is moving forward without going through a rigorous standardization. We had this little period known affectionately as the "Unix Wars" in the 1980s/90s and we're well on our way to a messy repeat in the Linux space. — Jon Masters --
Quotes of the week Posted Nov 18, 2012 13:36 UTC (Sun) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]
Wouldn't "is user a sheep" be more useful information to determine?
Quotes of the week Posted Nov 19, 2012 10:23 UTC (Mon) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]
Apparently sheep do not teleport as nicely as goats, for some reason...
Quotes of the week Posted Nov 21, 2012 16:42 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]
Maybe because goats can eat through the space-time continuum and weaken it where sheep just eat grass? Could be that the wool clogs up the tubes easier as well.
Quotes of the week Posted Nov 26, 2012 6:12 UTC (Mon) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link]
Indeed, I'd guess Google especially is interested in whether the user is a sheep, given ads are their primary revenue stream. But "the goog's" evaluation of /that/ (and the algorithm by which they determine it) is almost certainly proprietary and not subject to open sourcing. Additionally, the result is probably more complex than could be properly expressed by a boolean, altho given specific enough border parameters it should be reducible to a boolean.
Which of course is where gathering all that data about a person comes in (for google and other, including government), the better to set the border parameters at which the boolean result is "true". =:^\
Duncan
Quotes of the week Posted Nov 25, 2012 20:45 UTC (Sun) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474) [Link]
I'll have to disagree with Jon here. The modular architecture of LLVM is a major advantage over gcc. Not everyone wants to just use a command line program to compile a file. It's also nice to be able to compile from a program, to JIT little bits of code, to generate compiled code on the fly, etc etc, none of which is easy with gcc.
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