My use of goto sounds like everybody else's: if(something_bad_has_happened) goto code_to_fix_it;

In highly modular code with lots of procedures the "goto" may end up as a longjmp(). So be it.

...laura

Actually, the problem with Beck is twofold: One, his program is in the 9-12 slot for me, and I'm a late starter.

More importantly though, at some point after Fox kicked him to the curb he retooled his show into something more "Morning Zoo"-esque, and it's just not the same. Man's lost his park.

I listen to him every day. And Hannity. The sounds of their wailing are music to my ears.

Yes, they did.

In another job interview I was asked to write a program to generate prime numbers. I clarified a couple of requirements ("is memory usage an issue?"), and implemented the Sieve of Eratosthenes. It works, you know why it works, any idiot can read the code and understand it, and if testing shows you need something better (in some sense), you know where to start.

...laura

Regardless of the final implementation, there are problems where the simplest, clearest solution is a recursive one. You type it in to the computer as fast as you can type, it compiles and runs correctly the first time, and then, if you need to change it, you have a place to start.

On a job interview some years ago I was asked to write C code to reverse a string. I wrote it recursively: interchange the first and last elements, then reverse what's inside.

They liked my creativity. I got the job. :-)

...laura

Hapened about 50 years ago, do keep up old chap.

I'm saying the gun went off too late.

IT'S ABOUT ETHICS IN GAME JOURNALISM!

Or something like that. I'm sure somebody who takes vidya far too seriously can enlighten us downthread.

Cars just don't have the same totemistic mystique.

And much more complicated to operate.

we're talking about idiot parents here, and it's a blessing that the result wasn't more tragic

Actually, it's the worse possible outcome since those Darwin Award-worthy genes have been passed on already.

I know the article says that these companies can't afford to ignore china

Well, big companies, like MS, Apple, Oracle, etc.

When you run a small (or more local) business, one of the nice things is being able to avoid certain markets and customers. In fact, unless your future growth (and corresponding funding) aren't a lock, you have to avoid them because all they'll do is destroy your business.

So if the big boys have to jump through ridiculous hoops in order to keep those profit margins sky-high, fuck 'em. That's how the game works.

Idiot whines when he can't take what he can dish out. News at 11.

You are defending things you want to believe.

Ah yes. Question other people's motivations, see how far that gets you.

In that vein, you're obviously a tool of the elite, here to sow bullshit and apathy to keep the people down. Hope that paycheck is worth it!

All those paragraphs when you didn't read a single word I said...

Fuck is wrong with you?

Star Trek: The Next Generation was generally well-done, with interesting charcerters and only a few clunker episodes.

I found Deep Space 9 an interesting concept let down by unimaginative writing.

I found Voyager unwatchable. Janeway came across as an affirmative action bureaucrat. A Captain is a monarch, not a bureaucrat. Patrick Stewart had played Shakespearean kings, and played Picard the same way. It worked. What Janeway needed was a good desk.

Sliders was a really interesting premise that ran out of steam. The same story every week. Yawn.

The X Files also started out well and also ran out of steam, descending in to torture porn.

Didn't watch any of the others, so no comment.

...laura