Misc.

[benfrantzdale]

Cube

I can solve a Rubick's Cube without looking at instructions. Some of the moves I “get”; some of them I don't, but now that they are memorized I can watch them carefully and am beginning to understand them. Cool.

Movie

I watched The Professional. Wow. Awesome. In that, I noticed an actor I hadn't noticed before: Gary Oldman who plays the

Comments

[mtbg]

Re: movie: I just watched that (for the second time) last month. Damn it's good. And yes, Gary Oldman plays that character very well.

Re: code: Good calls all around. I should note, though, that GCC (at least with manly CFLAGS) will tell you about that always-true comparison.

Re: physics: *Jon Stewart-esque headshake* Whoa!

Re: airplanes: Hahahah.

Re: just about nothing: When I actually finish this, I'm going to post a brief review, but I thought I'd give you a heads-up. The preface and Chapter 1 have been quite enjoyable ;)

[benfrantzdale]

Re: Re: Code: Correction: With i > -1, it converts -1 to a size_t so it terminates immediately. With G++, -Wall gives me one warn: Comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions.

[bearddevil]

Re: Airplanes - This is just another reason why we ought to be investing in hybrid airships.

[bonboard]

Okay, I've been chewing on this code fragment for a while.

First, I completely disagree with your professor's take on whether and how often computers fail. They do fail, and being resilient to failures is important. The time required to react to a failure could easily be as important as the obviousness with which one can observe the failure, especially in the more real-time-programming arenas