You realize that you can leave comments in the asm code right? The only reason you might find it harder to read is if you don't understand the machine architecture.

Usually the C reference implementation comes first, then when it's deemed too slow an assembler version follows. So to port to another CPU you just use the C code, and if it runs too slow on that architecture you write another asm version.

It's here right now. Some presenters at hacking events have had visits from three letter agencies telling them that they will not be talking about what they were planning.

"I couldn't pawn the work off on my $5/h Indian coworkers that don't speak an intelligible dialect of English or have any programming skill whatsoever, but it's somebody else's fault it's not done yet. Yeah the guys that were fired, it's their fault."

If I wanted a detailed account I would look at the source. Commit messages are just an overview.

aiming that generalisation at me as an Atlassian user

No, but I see how it might seem like that with my sentence structure.

I agree Atlassian and JIRA are not truly terrible. OTRS isn't perfect for everyone either.

I had a customer that used Atlassian and JIRA for similar reasons. Their in-house talent was crap (the sort of programmers that code sql injection vulnerabilities daily or write specifications for encryption that pass the data plain text with a static "special secure code". As you might imagine there are consequences to that, and they now exist only as a thin veil between their offshore Indian devs and their pissed off customers. I think Atlassian is used with some success to hide that fact, but I digress. OTRS is my issue tracker of choice.

Slow, lots of downtime, horrible UI, poor integration between them, and the company spams your email account.

The salesmen do a great job selling Dilbert management on pretty graphs and reports in the dashboards, but in practice it's crappy. I have no doubt there are many free alternatives made 10+ years ago that are better, having used one at about that time.

I was onboard until you mentioned Atlassian and JIRA.

Programmers flocking to central repositories has given undeserved power to sites like github. Fuck 'em.

Why should they? The programmer could be a juvenile chicken fucker, but computers run the code just the same.

SJWs can get fucked. "Code of conduct" of any sort, including this, is apologist bullshit to be ignored.

Okay, but we have a 400 page book of procedures that you have to work through before we can take action by farming it out to Tata or IBM in a no-bid contract.

If you're paid by the hour they are wonderful wastes of time. Though I prefer more interesting things, if you hate the company you're doing work for it's one option.

Microservice is absolutely essential with more than about 5 devs, or if there are a couple retarded devs. It limits the damage and limits the exponential growth of filthy hacks that would otherwise appear.

That's the problem, people can do annoying shit like this:

for(...){
  if(...){
}
}

So if I'm working on my code, I don't have any issues with C syntax because I leave the brackets symmetrically indented. Unfortunately I often have to touch code written by a bunch of monkeys chained to a terminal somewhere in Asia, or in the case of Java that bastard syntax is the official recommendation.

Thanks for the link, that does look interesting enough to give it a whirl.

Python's indentation is wonderful, and I wish C and Java had it. I don't understand why many programmers don't appreciate the symmetry behind lined up indented blocks. It's almost like they prefer to scan through a mass of shit counting brackets to figure out where the fucking block ends.

Keep those fucking brackets matched up in the same column or I'll fucking murder you, or run it through a code beautifier.

That ethos is a good indicator that the code is crap, don't get involved.

If a company survives long enough on products like that, they usually start asking why development is so expensive, then they outsource to Indians which sends the company into a swan dive above concrete.

float Q_rsqrt( float number )
{
    long i;
    float x2, y;
    const float threehalfs = 1.5F;
    x2 = number * 0.5F;
    y  = number;
    i  = * ( long * ) &y;                       // evil floating point bit level hacking
    i  = 0x5f3759df - ( i >> 1 );               // what the fuck?   <-- THIS HERE
    y  = * ( float * ) &i;
    y  = y * ( threehalfs - ( x2 * y * y ) );   // 1st iteration
//  y  = y * ( threehalfs - ( x2 * y * y ) );   // 2nd iteration, this can be removed
    return y;
}

Probably a few others in business apps, but they elicit the wtf, and don't ask it.

In Canada that's called a "Human Rights Tribunal". Wish I was joking.

Actually he was giving the address of that char, but %s format expects null terminated strings, not just a single char, so printf continued until it hit a zero byte somewhere in the memory space after it.

If it can see the sky, just get time from gps.

A cloudy day will cause problems for it though as it quickly turns off an on. You should have a minimum delay and/or another threshold.

Coding is when you are following some pre-made design. Programming includes the design and coding part.

Java attracts the type of programmer that likes layers upon layers of crap. Best case you still have to deal with 100MB of JRE. The main reason it's used is that it's newb friendly and managers can throw a thousand monkeys at it and still get something that sort of works sometimes.

I love C99. She ain't real pretty, but at least she isn't a cheating whore and does exactly what I tell her to.