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The title is very misleading. The article mentions a twelve year old boy, not, as the title says, a "little girl".
Re:New OSS License: the CDL on Saturday March 26, 2011 @06:50AM (#2371816)
Indeed, it embiggens the validicity of the license.
At least it's better than pressing backspace until she gets to the word and then typing the whole thing again. ;)
Re:Google C++ Style Guide on Sunday February 20, 2011 @01:19PM (#2242580)
I laughed when I saw this: "If your function crashes upon error, you should append OrDie to the function name.", and then as an example: "OpenFileOrDie". Lol.
Re:Google Translate Easter Egg on Friday January 28, 2011 @01:42PM (#2152971)
Reading all the other answers with links to translationparty.com, I decided to google "translation party wikipedia" (without the quotes) and the first result was "Ranks and insignia of the Nazi Party - Wikipedia".
Re:Apple.com gets a redesign on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @12:32PM (#2144015)
I can confirm this same bug on Fedora. I'm not sure how this wasn't caught in testing. In my opinion the previous site design was better.
Good post, but I still think that C's macro are pretty powerful. I've created a foreach loop in C (GNU C at least, though I could probably port it using C1x's _Generic) just to prove this: https://gist.github.com/632544.