[quote user="dhromed"] [quote user="blakeyrat"]A much better criticism would be, "nobody on Earth can repro the damned thing, not even you Blakeyrat you cur! You disgusting worm! You human filth!". But yes, go ahead and focus on the icon.[/quote]  Well, that's not criticism, just proper bug triage. ...

[quote user="snoofle"] About a month ago I got a requirement to reduce our batch size from 2500 to 1000 [ ... ]  This week [ ... ] we should increase the batch sizes as much as possible![/quote] Your mission: introduce just the right amount of damping into this loop in order to suppress oscillations as quickly as possible (and ...

[quote user="PJH"][quote user="MiffTheFox"][quote user="DaveK"] [quote user="Arnavion"] Besides, somehow, I don't think anyone would want to run a Linux binary compiled using gcc on Windows on their servers. I certainly wouldn't. [/quote] Why not?  Given the same target headers and libs, a ...

[quote user="Arnavion"] Besides, somehow, I don't think anyone would want to run a Linux binary compiled using gcc on Windows on their servers. I certainly wouldn't. [/quote] Why not?  Given the same target headers and libs, a GCC cross-compiler should produce the exact same output as a native version.  Do you have ...

[quote user="Arnavion"]Exceptions aren't thrown in the traditional sense. They're returned. (Technically you _can_ throw them, but this is a bad practice and, for example, you won't write a library that threw exceptions because your caller won't expect it to.) So a function that wants to call 3 functions in serial would ...

[quote user="Zecc"] [quote user="the principal"]Now that we have all the machines back in our control, nothing new can happen.[/quote]Just the same stuff once more, then. [quote user="the principal"]Yes, something new is going to have to happen.[/quote]Make up your mind! [/quote] I thought the best quote ...

[quote user="KrakenLover"] An important detail here is that this is a "cloud"-based system; the client has no control over the server, and very limited control over the software (my customizations must conform to certain rules and limitations).  This client cannot be on this system in 2038 simply because the cloud-model ...

[quote user="KrakenLover"]Nevertheless, the idea that maybe by 2038 they won't even be on this system (I guarantee they won't be) [/quote]Woah man!  Déjà vu!

Just some comment for now.  

[quote user="dhromed"] [quote user="Zecc"]Well I paid for it, I might as well. Or is it that bad?[/quote]  It's an expansion pack to Portal 1. I literally pirated it, went up the first stairs into the room, said "Fuck it, not this shit again" and removed the game from my hard drive.[/quote] Dude.  ...