Older blog entries for haruspex (starting at number 254)

Chicago, I recognise a psychological resistance to using Svn for 'throwaway' projects. However, the hardest part is really naming the project. Once it's named, it's easy: just throw up a Svn URL on a blog (or here). The advantages are great. No need to worry about keeping crappy tarballs up to date; just commit at will. Whoever checks out will get the latest. Plus all the obvious niceties such as tagging, rev history in case the 'toy' project gets serious. That's what I do. So to circle back to the beginning, imho the hardest part is making up a name for the project. :-)

fejj, Numerous too are the fallacies that programmers use TO justify hand-writing some of their low-level routines. Rewriting libraries is so rarely a good idea that one could write an epigram - oh wait, someone did, so I won't rewrite it: PrematureOptimization. (Quite a few other pages on that wiki are relevant also, several of which are cited in the 3rd para.)

apenwarr, isn't that usually called prefetching?

tonyyarusso, You might also add this tragic absurdity to your list.

waa, The '*' also needs to be escaped.

fejj, Gosh, just maybe they cooperated because they didn't want their country destroyed? We now know the war was programmatic and nothing would have shoved aside the War President's drive to smash Iraq. It's undeniable that he, and each of his allies, lied to their publics repeatedly, and continue to do so, about the "motives". Feel good?

(update) nutella, not for everyone.

fraggle: OMG that's dumb.

roozbeh, AMEN. It's amazing nobody's called Fedora on to the mat for that.

sasubillis, Why not a web application? And skip C++, use something higher level.

gilbou, It's not Google's problem. It's the way whois greps the database that allows entries from non-Google domains (read from the right) to appear in the results.