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automatic code rewriting on the march

Christopher Blizzard — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:14:04 +0000

Taras has an update on his blog about some of the outparam deletion that he’s been working on. This is a great snippit:

Cool part about these patches is that after various outparamdel special-casing and manual cleanup the line count is reduced by 10-30% while maintaining existing functionality!

Love to see this stuff making a difference in our code base. Go go gadget Taras!

some light friday fare: better off dead

Christopher Blizzard — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:36:16 +0000

Meme(me)

Christopher Blizzard — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:46:24 +0000

Via John.

1. Take a picture of yourself right now.
2. Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture.
3. Post that picture with NO editing.
4. Post these instructions with your picture.

want to learn more about the current financial crisis on wall street?

Christopher Blizzard — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:27:53 +0000

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In a world in which we’re constrained to a one page article on cnn or 5 minutes in the nightly news it’s nice to hear someone spend a good half an hour explaining what’s going on. Something as complex and important as this requires time to explain.