Research like this is very satisfying. Every correct use of goto is like "will I face jihad over this? Is it worth fighting this battle?".

Maybe in the future we'll see less anti-goto zealotry crapping on the correct uses of goto.

Christmas in February IMO.

It's so satisfying to see research like this. Every goto is this miniature jihad of people who are scared of it getting out their pikes, every piece of code that should use it making you wonder "am I gonna get raked over the coals? is this battle worth it?".

Hopefully the appropriate use of unconditional jump in mid and high level code will be appraised based on whether it's correct and good, not based on snap judgments and zealots.

Christmas in February IMO.

No, what will cost them the lost profits will be the managers all hopped up on some shitty fucking trend that tells them to recode your tightly-coded routines with something that is super slow and awful (but trendy) and they believe it's no big deal because they think hardware is still advancing like it's the 80s.

"Quick, redo it all in a fad language!"

There's a little more than is being reported. Here's some other RMS lines in the same thread:

First we have:

"More precisely, Apple intends LLVM and Clang to make GCC cease to be a
signal success and a reason for all sorts of companies to work on a
compiler that always gives users freedom. That would be a victory for
Apple and a defeat for freedom.

I don't know what LLDB is, or what it might do. I am going to find
out."

That's a little bit paranoid, but it is still a cautious statement.

Then:

"This question is a small part of a big issue which is more or less bad.
I want to find out what it is, and think about it. Please do not ask
me to rush to a conclusion without finding out what is happening."

Again, in all of his posts he mentions wanting to discuss it a bit more. RMS is pretty incendiary, eccentric, and often does or says crazy shit but... in this case it sounds like he said something alarmist to get attention and try to get some discussion, without stamping his foot down or flipping his shit. That he's being selectively quoted to make news is bad juju.

If something is super fast, the overhead from all the subroutine calls (specifically, the stack manipulation) will make it shit compared to a loop. I think the idea that everything is magical happenings (like idealized math) until late in CS is a definite issue.

Still, for a simple recursive demonstration, that's fine. It would be better to then show which should be looped and which should be recursive. But the fact that you can loop billions of times but I doubt you could recursively call a billion deep should be kept in mind- this is a fundamental limit of function calls.

...and engage in all manner of hoop jumping to get HD content.

It's reasonable to not care about that (I generally do not), but some do.

Sounds like an awful way to design. You get design by minimalism, and of course where software "stops working" is divined by some high priests or whatever. That's how you get shit like, one button mouse, inability to block ads, no close button on your window, inability to customize UI, loss of familiar UI elements. All it takes is redefining "works" to exclude some set of users or potential users. "Our users shouldn't be X" -> GNOME happens. That sort of thing.

Lol, my ex STILL mocks me for the "Nokia email" following their ludicrous assertion that they would be around post capitalism and post nuclear war (by virtue of showing up as the in-dash system of a young Captain Kirk in the JJ Abrams Star Trek).

That stuff can really twist me.

But tear my hair out? I went bald way before it was cool!

That's a fully reasonable way to do things. But understand you are taking a much greater role of data ownership than is typical these days- mostly because email volume has increased, but also because the topics in emails have become a lot more varied since back in the day. In the 80s and early 90s a romantic email would be the punchline to a joke, as would an email making plans with all your friends. Email is the workhorse- if you think sending out a planning email is ludicrous, it's because you do all that on a bookface or a tweetspace or an imgster- even more tech to solve a problem in a way that would have been Nerd Level Max back then.

It's fashionable to shit on politicians no matter what they do, but I very much tire of "HarUMPH this does not go far ENOUGH!!!".

But here's my question- is this bill just like, a great thing that we should have, or is there some hidden aspect to it (ex: if it had language that allowed for warrants to be issued automatically)?

Because if it doesn't, super party and yay. If it does, presumably we'll hear about it soon enough.

I don't watch cable TV currently, and when I did, I would simple fast forward over the commercials. Movie theaters I either come in after the ads play or go grab whatever needs to be grabbed if I'm there with others- either way I don't see the ads.

Cable TV is shit for precisely this reason, and requires a work around. Movies are not interrupted by ads anyway.

Yes, it is that horrible. I never want to see advertisements, and I simply won't pay if there's ads involved.

I'm a fucking SHILL? For pointing out that it's perfectly reasonably to point out that the NSA does plenty of good? Sounds like you had your uninformed fucking mind up way before you stopped into this thread. The Boston Marathon Bombing happening is hardly the purview of the NSA in the first place- it was a couple of kids with some low fucking tech. The amount of monitoring necessary to catch that would be totalitarian, and ESPECIALLY if you expected them to do it with HUMINT. That's LUDICROUS. Is anything bad that happens an argument against the NSA? Not only is that the FBI's job, it's also a pretty low flying target for any three letter agency in the first place.

Lets see what some basic googling can find.
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/...

Expunged? Fuck that. Just because there's been some serious oversteps when it comes to preemptive monitoring of citizens doesn't mean that the agency needs to go away. That's ludicrous.

We don't have to endorse the privacy-violating things the NSA is up to in order to actually have a good opinion of THE WHOLE AGENCY. The NSA isn't just "a few oversteps that Snowden reveals piecemeal". The bulk of what they do is absolutely invaluable. A world with no NSA would be a worse one.

The G600 stores the values in the mouse. The older Razer products only did it in a driver (unsure about the new ones), but almost all Logitech gaming mice I've ever dealt with store the values internally.