Advogato blog for cdfrey

6 Feb 2012

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 22:09:43 GMT

fzort: I'm not a guru, but the ? operator needs the same type on both sides of the colon, whereas the multiple return statements can handle each type separately and convert to the base foo. Try:



struct foo { };

struct bar : foo { };

struct baz : foo { };



foo *doit(bool which)

{

        return which ? (foo*) new bar : (foo*) new baz;

}

6 Feb 2012

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 22:04:44 GMT

badvogato: I'm not sure who you're quoting, but that's not the only way to view this topic. See also this (point #10) and this.

4 Feb 2012

Sat, 4 Feb 2012 23:33:12 GMT

Time for that monty python spam song again... :-)

17 Sep 2011

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 09:02:59 GMT

ryuslash: looks like you've got the right balance to me. Advogato is just more free-form than you might be used to. We make up the formatting rules as we go along.

16 Sep 2011

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:01:26 GMT

ryuslash

Anyway, the reason that I have found this is that I'd really like to comment on certain people's posts, but I don't want to fill up the recentlog with these replies. Only the people interested in the original post would want to know about any discussion about that post, I would think.

comments

bbTracker and Local Content warning on the BlackBerry

Sun, 4 Sep 2011 20:09:05 GMT

bbTracker

Open Street Map

Anyway, when you install this application as a COD file, it is not signed like many others, and when it tries to access the filesystem on the device, the BlackBerry OS shows the following prompt message:

The application bbTracker has attempted to open local content. But it does not contain a signature. It might not be from a trusted source. Would you like to allow this? Yes/No

This gets very annoying, as you can imagine. And this particular prompt does not have a "do not ask me again" checkbox, so it appears every time.

I'm using a BlackBerry 9000 device, running v5.0.0.348 (Platform 5.2.0.23) firmware.

Since bbTracker is not signed, you will need to adjust the filesystem permissions manually. Go into Options | Applications | Edit Permissions. Unsigned applications have three main groups: RIM, MIDP groups, and MIDP JSRs.

When the cursor is along the top, select MIDP groups:

Expand the Data Space, using the main menu:

I set all these options to ALLOWED:

I'm not sure what the ONESHOT, SESSION, and BLANKET options are, but allowing these permissions removes the above prompt for me.

1 Sep 2011

Thu, 1 Sep 2011 16:55:27 GMT

ryuslash: Welcome. This can be a rather daunting site to get started on, if you don't know anyone. I've given you the benefit of the doubt and set you to Journeyer (for personal reasons, that's the only cert I give).

Try writing about the free software you've done, or would like to do. Tell us more about yourself so we can get to know you. Perhaps even write some documentation and post it here.

What languages are you proficient in? What free software do you use regularly? What features would you like to see in them? What's your current free software project?

The recentlog needs more free software topics. :-)

Inspiring Japanese Culture

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 18:14:51 GMT

fzort

link

My small personal experience with Japanese culture is also favourable. Their respect for their elders takes things to a new level that just seems completely out of fashion in the west. I found that there was a lot to learn from the simple example of just one Japanese student's life.

Your Don Knuth comment made me chuckle. It's true; it would be hard not to love him. Maybe if more Christians lived like that, we wouldn't be "taking the Lord's name in vain" and giving God a bad rep in the world.

Crackpots and Disasters

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:15:28 GMT

fzort

If God exists, who do you think He would be more angry at: a person who makes over a million dollars a year, who may even claim to be a Christian, and still has most of it in his bank account at the end of the year; or a poor Haitian who practices voodoo?

I think this is a difference that a lot of us "religious wackos" miss. If we are somehow blessed with plenty in the western world, that is not evidence that God is rewarding us for something good we've done. Rather, it is proof that we are doing a piss-poor job at the responsibility God has given us to take care of the poor. And if any of these Christians read the Bible, they should take note of the parts that indicate that rich people who don't share are actually storing up judgment for themselves in the very wealth they take comfort in. Their riches are their judgment. That cool thousand, million, or billion in the bank will be a liability at the last day.

Don't assume someone is a Christian just because they claim to be. And by that same token, don't assume that God is pleased with Christians just because they claim He is.

If I understand the Bible correctly, North America could easily be more hell-worthy than Japan or Haiti, in the same way that Jerusalem in Jesus's day was more hell-worthy than Sodom and Gomorrah.

17 Mar 2011

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:14:52 GMT

fzort

This may be a clue as to how to cleanup the recentlog. Perhaps an automatic email whenever your nick is mentioned in a blog post. Or a <call_you_out> tag, which requires a response within a month before you get pruned from the default recentlog threshold. :-)