Ari

11:47 pm:

12:16 am: mm C++
Today, thanks to tbm, I learned that this used to be valid code in g++:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main(void) {

int foo = 1;
int bar = 2;

foo >?= bar;
cout << foo << endl;

return 0;

}

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=393993

01:08 am: One Pirate Per Child

12:09 pm: Pork barrel politics are marching on Copley Square

11:30 pm: One Pasta Per Child (OPPC)
<dilinger> elbev: the OLPC computer could double as food for the hungry!
<elbev> dilinger: the crank could be converted into a pasta machine, and the keys could be made of solidified semolina



Update: <dilinger> i'm down with OPPC (yea you know me!)

11:15 pm: C++ return values
Quick thoughts on designing C++ class methods:
Foo& do_something() { ... } if the caller shouldn't be freeing the returned object afterwards
Foo* do_something() { ...} if the caller should handle freeing the returned object (transferring ownership to the caller)
Foo do_something() { Foo newthing; ... } if the caller is returning an automatic local

10:15 am: Ruby
Matt, you can make it slightly more readable by just getting rid of the entries and map calls (and using globbing, as someone just suggested)

def changes_files
  Dir.glob(File.join(INCOMING, "*.changes"))
end

05:04 pm: How do I wrote software license?
Nothing new to report, really. The drscheme Debian packages are in dire need of some help, so if you have any skills with Scheme (especially PLT) and Debian and would like to help, please contact me.
Here are some pictures from the FSF's pre-GPLv3 conference cocktail party and subsequent party at the Acetarium.

pictures

05:54 pm: How do I wrote irssi script?
Alexander Wirt had wondered if there was a page that tracked the topic of #debian-devel. There wasn't any, so I decided to whip up a tiny irssi script that used WWW::Mechanize to update this Debian wiki page automatically when the topic changes.

Personally, I think installing apt-listbugs/apt-listchanges and being aware of debian-devel-announce is more useful than reading the tiny topic, but to each his/her own. There's already a StatusOfUnstable page, but that has to be updated manually and right now just seems to reflect the /topic anyway.

04:40 pm: People have differing musical tastes, news at 11.