And yet my nephew knew how to configure the NAT/router in his parents' house so that he could run a Minecraft server for his friends when he was ten.

No it isn't.

Both NTFS and HFS+ are file systems that are case insensitive and case preserving (by default). They work as designed. They have always worked that way as the people who ported git to those platforms should have known.

Just because you don't like the way NTFSD and HFS+ work and it makes the programmer's job a little harder doesn't mean there is a bug.

I think it's a minimum, not a maximum.

We do in the UK and we thought of it first.

I wouldn't be surprised if that was exactly the bug.

The issue of whether Julian Assange is a rapist or not would have been settled years ago if he had not skipped bail. He would have been taken to Sweden and interviewed about the accusations. Maybe as a result of that, there would have been a trial and hopefully he would have been found guilty if and only if he did rape somebody.

Right now, he's a fugitive from justice, which makes me think that he is not confident that he would be acquitted of the rape allegations. You can talk about the danger of extradition to the USA, but he was in the UK for a while before he ran away and the USA made no move to extradite him. I don't think that is a real danger.

There is a difference between an array and a pointer.

char a[100];
char* b;

b = a; // Fine
a = b; // Not fine.

If you read the standard, the language used is that, in an expression, an array "decays" to a pointer with the rule being that you get a pointer to the array's first element. The "array is not a pointer" rule is further demonstrated by passing an array to sizeof (as viol8 points out).

Don't be silly, they'd talk about One point twenty one jiggawatts. Then there would be a flamewar on the correct pronunciation of "giga" and whether a lightning strike can deliver 1.21Gw.

Actually, you could quite easily bring custom operators to Objective-C by adopting the Smalltalk approach. Simply allow symbols to be messages e.g.

        [@"foo" stringByAppendingString: @"bar];

could be written as

        [@"foo" +: @"bar];

Smalltalk allows you to drop the colon with binary operators so you could even have

      [@"foo" + @"bar];

Money going into my account? No, never noticed any... ... what's that you say? Yes, it is a nice new car. We're off to the Seychelles next week too. It's paid for by a bequest from Aunt Mildred's goldfish.

There are a number of people on this thread who are saying "I don't contribute because I don't have time". Well, why don't you contribute money instead then? If a piece of software has value to you, either because it helps you do your job, entertains you or saves you some time, then it surely has monetary value.

The advantage of contributing money apart from it taking only about five minutes is that you don't have to deal with the arrogant arseholes that all successful open source projects are staffed by (if many of the anecdotes above are correct).

Full disclosure: I am in this group of people, unless you count the very occasional bug report.

He wasn't talking about the Mac itself but the software applications that run on it.

This is not true. The 10% + 2 rule is a discretionary guideline that the police tend to use. In principle they can prosecute at any speed over the speed limit.

http://www.acpo.police.uk/docu...

Section 9 is the relevant part.

That was an idiot driver in Belgium moving into a lane where he had no visibility.

and judging by the fact that the video was taken from a lorry and the vehicle in front was a lorry and the car wasn't travelling much faster, it is unlikely that anybody was doing much more than 65mph

From which we can deduce you know very little about Objective-C.