I’m a software engineer and I built a trebuchet during lockdown to launch Easter eggs at the neighbours’ gardens since we weren’t allowed to go see them.
I’m a software engineer and I built a trebuchet during lockdown to launch Easter eggs at the neighbours’ gardens since we weren’t allowed to go see them.
I wandered in here from computer science, and I’m going back to solving parallel cache coherency for a bit of light relief.
Big employer in the uk back in the day would fine your boss if you parked outside the lines. People were pretty attentive to how they parked…
That one is … far away.
Function/Method names, on the other hand, should be written so as to make the most sense to the humans reading and writing the code
Of course—that’s why we have such classics as stristr()
, strpbrk()
, and stripos()
. Pretty obvious what the differences are there.
But to your point, the ‘intuitive’ counterpart to ‘zeroth’ is the item with index zero. What we have is a mishmash of accurate and colloquial terms for the same thing.
Most humans wouldd never write the word first
followed by ()
. It absolutely should have been zeroth()
, and would not cause any confusion amongst anyone who needed to write it.
This Antex is about 30 years old, has a heat resistant cap and is still going strong :) Don’t know what they’re like these days but I’d recommend on my experience.
Saddameurysm.
What part of the rest of the world are you in?
It probably had quite a lot to do with whether the unknown man in front could possibly be the senator. If he didn’t have white skin, it’s very unlikely to have been who she thought it was.
They are super cool and super territorial by all accounts. We were in a pop-up pub in a field and this guy kept coming to sit on our hands. I guess we were in his spot…
Just archive it and take up farming.
No, tiny bits of hidden software. It’s not a very efficient way of distributing code, but it was fun.