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A comment on Where the Printf Rubber Meets the Road (2010).

Re:Where the Printf Rubber Meets the Road (2010) by JoshTriplett on Saturday October 04, 2014 @06:00PM (#8410794)
The original Stack Overflow question seems to have some fundamentally broken assumptions about implementation in assembly. The design decisions of one random compiler don't determine how all implementations work. And even for that compiler, a lack of inline assembly doesn't mean the standard library can't use assembly; it just has to use separate assembly files. Beyond that, the compiler itself generates machine code, and it can (and does) do so as part of the implementation of varargs.

Regarding the site hosting the article: ugh, it's bad enough to capture the left arrow key and have it go to a previous article, but pay attention to the modifiers to avoid breaking alt-left as a keyboard shortcut for "back". (Browsers shouldn't even allow unprivileged pages to override shortcuts like alt-left.)

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Re:Where the Printf Rubber Meets the Road (2010) by hostilefork on Saturday October 04, 2014 @08:29PM (#8411049)
But I'll patch the alt-left thing if it makes you happy. :-/ Still, if you want to give feedback, write an email and make it friendly. It doesn't make people feel good with "ugh". There's so much "ugh"-worthy stuff out there and I don't think I deserve that.
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Re:Where the Printf Rubber Meets the Road (2010) by JoshTriplett on Saturday October 04, 2014 @09:45PM (#8411192)
I appreciate you taking the time to fix the alt-left problem. I've run into too many sites doing similar things lately, including Google Blogger-based sites; this was just the most recent one I've run into. I was attempting to express a very mild annoyance; sorry if it came across as excessively snarky.
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Re:Where the Printf Rubber Meets the Road (2010) by hostilefork on Saturday October 04, 2014 @10:19PM (#8411259)
It's all right, I just try kind of hard to be the least ad-having, most license friendly, site I can host... so it gets my goat a bit given what I think are better "ugh" targets by far.

I'm traveling and it's not convenient to fix it tonight, but I will do it as soon as I can.

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Re:Where the Printf Rubber Meets the Road (2010) by theGimp on Saturday October 04, 2014 @08:46PM (#8411086)
Not the original commenter, but you clearly haven't hung around HN for very long :)
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Re:Where the Printf Rubber Meets the Road (2010) by hostilefork on Saturday October 04, 2014 @08:54PM (#8411102)
Indeed, not my generation, not my thing. Back in my day, if you wanted to say something to someone you said it to their face. Gloves were thrown on the ground. Duels were had. It doesn't end until someone gets shot in the face.

Well maybe these modernizations are good. You shoot people in the face virtually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYQhvW-tjNM

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Re:Where the Printf Rubber Meets the Road (2010) by hostilefork on Saturday October 04, 2014 @08:05PM (#8411013)
Of all the things, of all the sites on the Internet, loading all the plugins and advertising weighing down your browser that you can handle... you complain that left and right cursor keys let you navigate entries? Your compass is set so straight, buddy. Thanks for making my day. I hate it when stuff I write gets picked up by sites like this where people like you offer your genius unto the world.
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Re:Where the Printf Rubber Meets the Road (2010) by striking on Saturday October 04, 2014 @11:04PM (#8411331)
...didn't realize you disliked this site so much. Sorry for putting you on the spot, I guess? I just thought your article was interesting.
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Re:Where the Printf Rubber Meets the Road (2010) by hostilefork on Sunday October 05, 2014 @10:55AM (#8412417)
Well I was in an irritated mood (it happens, often). And someone texted me as "you're on hackernews"...which is another one of these "we don't deign to comment on your blog but in invisible space you can't moderate and wouldn't even know about if someone didn't tell you" sites.

It irritates me that a low-tech site run by loudmouth self-important non-philosopher startup "We're Big Business" people is worshipped so mindlessly by the madding JavaScript crowds. I guess they don't know any better. They're kids.

And the logo... it's a Y. Must have taken a long time to make that! Can I trade my "points" here for anything besides meaningless points on something that is only slightly lower tech than Reddit?

It's not your fault that these people--this rep system--this fraud exists. But sadness for me and my heart, because I care about right answers and beautiful things. "Startups" and "entrepreneurs" who don't have a soul or an original idea in their head aren't part of my world. Show me something amazing, or come to me with a question. Not the junk from these clowns.

So I'm back to answering homework questions for poor kids in India who don't know that Turbo C is long discontinued. I want to improve the world.

I wish computers hadn't gotten cool enough to get on the radar of MBA wannabe mental lightweights.

http://api.ning.com/files/7p9j8xEwRdVx32byvos40sX-7FeEGhQJ6Z...

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Re:Where the Printf Rubber Meets the Road (2010) by krapp on Sunday October 05, 2014 @11:54AM (#8412568)
>Can I trade my "points" here for anything besides meaningless points on something that is only slightly lower tech than Reddit?

Get some, and you can change the color of the header bar. Get about 500 and you can downvote people. That's about it.

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Re:Where the Printf Rubber Meets the Road (2010) by hostilefork on Sunday October 05, 2014 @11:23AM (#8412495)
Oooh. Zero points and gray. That's bad, is it? O noes.

Business, business business. Numbers. Is this working?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFIqby7f5B4

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Re:Where the Printf Rubber Meets the Road (2010) by dmm on Saturday October 04, 2014 @10:07PM (#8411233)
Consider using noscript by default. It fixes this and many other problems.
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