The child could have two mums although I guess if that's the case however there would be no shaft.

You monster.

Give them some credit. They were probably writing it on a BlackBerry keyboard.

just so you know, the 2001:db8 is reserved as a fictitious subnet to use in documentation. You'd be better off using that instead of 2001:123:45

:)

You're missing a '/' in the closing sarcasm tag.

You know you could always post as an AC

Please, if you're going to troll try a little harder next time.

In my opinion, a two pronged approach of good commenting in the code and extensive testing make for a much more attractive package.

Is there some code that looks odd but accounts for edge case x? Write a simple comment saying as much, but write a test with the edge case in it. That way if someone hoses it, a test will fail.

You even have things like cucumber (http://cukes.info/) for ruby which creates documentation with the tests.

This page is very informative and, if it is to be believed, implies that there was some scientific basis for calling him out as a cheat

http://nyvelocity.com/content/interviews/2009/michael-ashenden

I prefer aptitude search; apt-cache doesn't tell you if the package is installed. A small difference, but enough to have been the deciding factor for me.

This. I would have ticked the option "It's not about the money." As long as I make enough to get by other factors (commute, hours of employment, holiday, work environment) would play as important a factor as salary on deciding to move from where I am now.

You even managed to work a typo into the title, more in keeping with proper Slashdot submissions. Nice work :)

Why is this modded funny? Is it because it's too true not to be?!

Just so you know, so can MySQL

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/blackhole-storage-engine.html