7/ well, ok, so the functions aren't given good names, but if a variable is named something like "input_data_ptr", that helps, right? no the variables are all single letters like a, b, c, d
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18/ Oh, no, this isn't a "a Friday". This is "a most of May and all of June so far"https://twitter.com/ArthurFrDent/status/1137009727538249729 …
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19/ There was a certain mailing list I was on once, and then I left, and then some other guy joined, and read something about me and - not knowing that I'd been on the list - said "wow, look at this retard". He was corrected. >>>
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20/ "oh, no, Travis didn't retard himself into that situation. He GENIUSed his way into that situation."
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21/ Likewise, this code base. This is not the work of a retard. This is the work of a genius. The work of a retard can be discarded and replaced. The work of a genius needs to be tidied up by lesser craftsmen, who labor in obscurity. Michelangelo didn't spread his own tarps
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22/ Found the memory corruption issue. Old code: typedef uint32_t fred; typdef struct { fred a; fred b; } bob; new code: I replace uint32_t with uin64_t; sizeof(bob) automatically updates, right? no we're not doing sizeof(bob) ; we've got it hardcoded.
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You know, for someone whose mission statement was "make a computer from scratch that can be trusted not to be broken like all the other computers in existence" he sure wrote a lot of untrustable broken code
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... although to be fair I'm sure it's broken in ways UNLIKE all the other computers in existence
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