the first time some kernel devs got laid

FTFY

Gatorade was so 2006.

They'll be watering plants with Gatorade

Monster Energy Drink! Don't you know it's $(CURRENT_YEAR)?

persistent pattern of disrespectful communication towards other members of the community.

Respect has to be earned, not given out freely.

Logic is part of the patriarchy and white privilege.

The instructions clearly state that a employee salary of 0 is a terminator condition, so there's your exit.

Let's see you fill in a string array with of the current directory listing with that and let me know how that goes.

Yeah, every few months I can't figure out why

for(int i = 0; i < numrecords; i++);
do_stuff();

doesn't work like I expect. That little finger reaches out and sticks in that semicolon by iteself

And TV's and smart phones and ...

Hahahahahhhaaaa!

Is this supposed to be object oriented or not?

What? Windows took 6 or so disks.

I only have to read a few articles this from time to time to keep the facepalm going. They try to spin it so the fails aren't terribly obvious, but that fails as well.

Ah, he deleted it.

So you're a real person? And this is your first submission and post in a 27 minute old account? I'll keep an eye on you!

What's it doing, getting page views for articlesbase?

Seeing as how Microsoft has done so well without software testing, I'd say it's a burden.

Last time I checked (5? years ago) compilers still bitched about syntax even if #defined out.

I'd say programming (and math) are considered difficult by large numbers of people because the "if this, then that" paradigm has so many pitfalls in real life that they can't bring themselves to trust them in math and programming.

Really? I messed with it just a bit five years ago, and at least with Nvidia it was possible to code a binary blob to be uploaded to the video card at runtime, but it was discouraged because of compatibility reasons.

It makes a difference in speed once in awhile, too. For instance, last time I checked (maybe 8 years ago) the LOOP instruction only took one cycle on AMD but 18 or so cycles on Intel. And Intel is generally significantly faster with floating point.

All righty then! I demand you come to my house and clean the keyboard and blow my nose for making me laugh while taking a sip of beer!

Having played the Borland 4.0 C++ compiler that came out in a Sam's "Learn C++ in 21 Days" back in the '90's for about a year, I can assure you that specific compilers can be very buggy indeed.

So you've tried Edge, and can verify that it's not old and slow, or you're just taking MS's word for it?

I'd like to add that the bits in the operand can often be considered as bitfields for which broad range of instructions to use.
For instance, it could easily be that all the "load accumulator" instructions must have the 6th bit set and 7th bit clear, with the remainder of the bits specifying whether it's a memory operand, another register or an immediate.

only the first 4 parameters are passed on as register memories, the fifth is pushed onto the stack.

For the specific compiler, OS and 32 bit vs. 64 bit, that's probably true.
http://www.agner.org/optimize/calling_conventions.pdf

I fiddled with it for about 3 hours before ragequitting over the weirdness of it all. MS-DOS seems much more functional to me, even without point-n-grunt GUI stuff.

So the "For Dummies..." series of books will be targeted soon?

I think they're just talking about loop hoisting, written large.

I don't see a license, but I'd assume it's free to use by anybody. If you represent a company that wants to "acquire" it, the rest of us assume you want to reserve it for the exclusive use of your company only. In other words, you want to profit off of his labor with no more effort than asking for it. He needs to put a GPL or perhaps a zlib license in there to prevent such asshattery.

And to further expand on that, it helps reduce typos. For instance, using M_PI instead of the string 3.141592653589793238 will cause a compiler error if you somehow misspell M_PI. It also makes maintenance easier if the value of pi ever changes! /s

Yeah, when I listen to music, I pay full attention to it and it alone, while the hairs on my arms stand at attention.

Is there a downloadable ISO, or do you have to go through all the download nonsense every time Windows needs to be reinstalled?

I'm pretty sure that no GCC actually produces a COM (COre iMage) file dating from the 8 bit CP/M days with 8008 cpus, although you can rename an exe file to COM and it'll work.

Shipping software is an unnatural act

I've thought about the possibility of people with bandwidth to spare to send each other binary blobs of intentionally random data for the NSA computers to chew on fruitlessly.