Somebody over at Veracode has found the only valid measurement of code quality.

h/t Emergent Chaos

float InvSqrt (float x) {
float xhalf = 0.5f*x;
int i = *(int*)&x;
i = 0x5f3759df - (i>>1);
x = *(float*)&i;
x = x*(1.5f - xhalf*x*x);
return x;
}This function appears in the Quake 3 source. It's reportedly about four times faster than 1.0/sqrt(x). There's a paper on how it works, and whence the magic number. Wow. (Link ( Read more... )

Note to self: When the manpage says
As a non-blocking end-less loop in a process scheduled under SCHED_FIFO ( Read more... )

From aforementioned ASR quotefile: > I still haven't found the right problem to learn perl over...

Your essential mistake here is that you seek such a program. This is self-defeating Zen. When the time is right, the right program will quietly make _itself_ known to you.

-Tanuki
I like this.

First, the results of this guy's art project. He made 50,000 speech bubble stickers, put them up on ads all around NYC, invited people to fill them in, and then photographed the results. The site is slooooow right now, probably as a result of being Farked, but check it out sometime.

Second, The Daily WTF. God I love this site. Every day, they post ( Read more... )