Comments for Dean's Pants http://deanspants.com Tech and Trousers Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:57:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 Comment on Mint is Wrong by jason http://deanspants.com/entries/28#comment-49 jason Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:02:37 +0000 http://deanspants.com/?p=28#comment-49 <p>I don't think something like a rent increase is "expected" as it only happens once a year. I think something like paying for gas would be an expected monthly change.</p> <p>I'm not standing up for mint though. I signed up for it, logged into it a few times, and haven't checked it in months. I think all these services need something that prunes users every six months. Mint, MySpace, Facebook, all of them.</p> I don’t think something like a rent increase is “expected” as it only happens once a year. I think something like paying for gas would be an expected monthly change.

I’m not standing up for mint though. I signed up for it, logged into it a few times, and haven’t checked it in months. I think all these services need something that prunes users every six months. Mint, MySpace, Facebook, all of them.

]]> Comment on Mint is Wrong by the matthew show http://deanspants.com/entries/28#comment-44 the matthew show Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:56:55 +0000 http://deanspants.com/?p=28#comment-44 <p>Also, why are the comments ebonicized? "the matthew show say..."</p> <p>Fo shizzlenit.</p> Also, why are the comments ebonicized? “the matthew show say…”

Fo shizzlenit.

]]> Comment on Mint is Wrong by the matthew show http://deanspants.com/entries/28#comment-43 the matthew show Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:56:07 +0000 http://deanspants.com/?p=28#comment-43 <p>What I'd like to know is why your dates are listed UK style (day/month/year). Why do you hate America?</p> What I’d like to know is why your dates are listed UK style (day/month/year). Why do you hate America?

]]> Comment on Send an Email Later by Billerbug http://deanspants.com/entries/24#comment-39 Billerbug Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:01:11 +0000 http://deanspants.com/?p=24#comment-39 <p>Nice cheat! ;)</p> Nice cheat! ;)

]]> Comment on The Tyranny of Fetishistic Compulsion in Programming by Dean http://deanspants.com/entries/19#comment-34 Dean Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:58:40 +0000 http://deanspants.com/entries/19#comment-34 <blockquote> <p>With regards to the whole ‘protection of human life’ thing, most of that code is actually in C or assembler.</p> </blockquote> <p>Well, you can't get more strongly typed than C. :) Though I suppose you're right about void pointers.</p> <p>A friend brought up the point that strongly typed, strictly OO languages have many advantages in very large, collaborative projects. I can't disagree with that, but I never work on those, so I'll continue to bash. :)</p>

With regards to the whole ‘protection of human life’ thing, most of that code is actually in C or assembler.

Well, you can’t get more strongly typed than C. :) Though I suppose you’re right about void pointers.

A friend brought up the point that strongly typed, strictly OO languages have many advantages in very large, collaborative projects. I can’t disagree with that, but I never work on those, so I’ll continue to bash. :)

]]> Comment on The Tyranny of Fetishistic Compulsion in Programming by keith http://deanspants.com/entries/19#comment-32 keith Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:51:44 +0000 http://deanspants.com/entries/19#comment-32 <p>With regards to the whole 'protection of human life' thing, most of that code is actually in C or assembler.</p> <p>I was very surprised recently when a friend who works on a DOD project said their moving from ADA and back to running C on a hard real-time OS--even for missile avionics. Heh, void pointers ftw!</p> <p>Strong typing is the path to the dark side. Strong typing leads to HATE, and HATE leads to suffering.</p> <p>The 'path of light' is a weak-typing language with a just-in-time compiler which allows 'hints'.</p> With regards to the whole ‘protection of human life’ thing, most of that code is actually in C or assembler.

I was very surprised recently when a friend who works on a DOD project said their moving from ADA and back to running C on a hard real-time OS—even for missile avionics. Heh, void pointers ftw!

Strong typing is the path to the dark side. Strong typing leads to HATE, and HATE leads to suffering.

The ‘path of light’ is a weak-typing language with a just-in-time compiler which allows ‘hints’.

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