Word for word this short essay served to improve my coding more than any other document, and not just in C. Most of the essay is applicable to any language. Pike elegently and concisely explains the most important principles of good code style and software architecture. The sections "Programming with data" and "Function pointers" are particularly sailent. The section "Complexity", also known as "Rob's Rules", is outstanding and ought to be burned into the brain of every software developer. It's a free online classic and I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet. http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/pi...

A typical oceanographic trawl winch will part 9/16" steel rope like it was nothing, which requires a force of about 27,000 lbs, and the ship doesn't even notice.

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Yeah you could shoot yourself in the foot and use PICs or you could come to the light of AVR with it's higher speed and full support for doing dev with the GNU toolchain on Linux from 8 to 32 bits.

One last thing that just about no one knows about. All of the major news outlets proclaimed Florida to Gore before voting was finished in Florida. Florida resides in two time zones and the northwest "handle" of Florida is heavily Republican. Many voters left lines while voting was open once Florida was called for Gore. IF that hadn't have happened, the recount wouldn't have been close at all.

If that's really true, well, those folks who walked out have nobody to blame but themselves.

I see a business opportunity in installing aftermarket ignition kill switches.

The main thing I like about an actual IGNITION SWITCH vs. some sort of software controlled engine start/stop button is the ability to actually turn the engine off without any software in the loop. Guess that's something I'll have to retrofit into my future cars.

I was BEGGING for this service a few years back when I was spending extended periods at sea. I'm sure anybody who goes on extended overseas trips would love it.

Does it finally have vsplit?

Put 'em back in the landfill where they belong. Or better yet in an incincerator.

You've heard of radio direction finding, right? Just stay out of the ham bands.

This. The NPR article seems misleading. They stopped him based on the 911 call. Which seems reasonable to me. If some moron is driving like a fool I'd really like to cops to stop him. The probable cause for the SEARCH was due to the marijuana smell. I don't think this ruling is a broad as it's being made out to be.

What does that have to do with search engines?

"If you wanted to get a free IBM 3270 terminal then you should have been there 20 years ago when the hospital threw away a dumpster-full." --Captain Hindsight

I remember Archie. And Veronica. And I just got the references after all these years.