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Quotes of the week
I'm all in favour of "whence", which is indeed the name of that
lseek argument - since mediaeval times I believe.
— Hugh Dickins
It's good to have words like that in the kernel source: while you're in the mood, please see if you can find good homes for "whither" and "thrice" and "widdershins".
Took vacation last week, spent most of it doing userspace coding.
It was joyous.
— Rusty
Russell
If yes, yet again this illustrates why the use of atomic types
leads people down the path of believing that their code somehow
becomes magically safe through the use of this smoke-screen. IMHO,
every use of atomic_t must be questioned and carefully analysed
before it gets into the kernel - many are buggy through assumptions
that atomic_t buys you something magic.
— Russell King(Log in to post comments)
Quotes of the week Posted Dec 6, 2012 9:49 UTC (Thu) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]
I believe Hugh meant mediæval <cue the guy who comments using old english characters>.
Quotes of the week Posted Dec 6, 2012 17:45 UTC (Thu) by dark (subscriber, #8483) [Link] No it's medireview now; eval is too dangerous.
Quotes of the week Posted Dec 6, 2012 20:36 UTC (Thu) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link]
In case some people are wondering, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medireview
widdershins Posted Dec 6, 2012 14:17 UTC (Thu) by hthoma (subscriber, #4743) [Link]
If somebody finds a good home for widdershins, he should look for good homes for turnwise, hubwards and rimwards as well.
widdershins Posted Dec 6, 2012 16:41 UTC (Thu) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]
Well widdershins dates back to at least 1545, in English, the other words really seem to be neologisms.
widdershins Posted Dec 7, 2012 10:24 UTC (Fri) by hthoma (subscriber, #4743) [Link]
> the other words really seem to be neologisms.
They are from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.
I am not a native english speaker, much less an etymologist. Just a Pratchett fan ;-)
Quotes of the week Posted Dec 6, 2012 18:44 UTC (Thu) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]
Surely it's unintuitive for a double-circularly-linked list (like list.h provides) to have "next" and "prev" pointers, since these suggest that repeated use won't eventually reach the starting point. It would be much more clear with ->deosil and ->widdershins.
Quotes of the week Posted Dec 11, 2012 10:43 UTC (Tue) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]
In the all great UNIX tradition, I would spell that ->deosi and ->widder for extra fun. In fact I'm going to code right now a doubly linked list just to do that and confuse some sucker (most probably myself) from the future!
Quotes of the week Posted Dec 14, 2012 13:28 UTC (Fri) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link]
In FORTRAN tradition, I really did once use two variables called SINIST and DEXTER, because LEFT isn't real.
Cheers,
Quotes of the week Posted Dec 15, 2012 11:27 UTC (Sat) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]
Make that ->deos and ->widd and you don't even have to realign your code!
What a vacation Posted Dec 7, 2012 12:05 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] So that is how a kernel dev takes vacation, by writing userspace code... Beware of getting all soft inside. I hear that your testosterone lowers just by looking at non-C code. C++, Bash, or perhaps even Lisp may be tolerable. But if it's anything like Python, JavaScript, Lua, Perl... bwargh!
Sexism ? Posted Jan 18, 2013 11:13 UTC (Fri) by meuh (subscriber, #22042) [Link]
What's the relation between "testosterone" and development or programming language. You're excluding women.
Sexism ? Posted Jan 18, 2013 12:06 UTC (Fri) by micka (subscriber, #38720) [Link]
Testosterone is also secreted by women.
Yes, and very blatant at that Posted Jan 19, 2013 0:28 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] There are sadly very few female kernel developers. While the percentage of women in engineering classes and jobs is around 10% [*], by what I can judge from kernel summit pictures the proportion of kernel devs is rather around 1%. Perhaps the lower proportions of testosterone in women explains why they don't code so much in C [**]. I know for a fact that I have come more in touch with my feminine side after extended periods coding in Python and JavaScript, although I have not tested my estrogen levels to see if there are morphological changes involved.[*] These figures only apply to countries and times where there is not a barrier for high education for females, as evidenced e.g. by the abundance of women lawyers and doctors. [**] This is a joke, people! I have had the luck to work with several female C developers who did a splendid job.
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