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The info that Grackle68k exists is howling for cardinal reasons:

First, and least manifest, is because it makes for a outre emplacement between the individual OS 9 (or OS 8, or Systems 6 and 7) and Chirrup, and self-consciously progressive online service that would've seemed ridiculous in the maturate of the Bondi Blue iMac. And second, because the flyspeck slice of the grouping UN agency still earnestly uses OS 9 is either clinically psychotic person, hasn't read a software review since the period of time 2000, or is perplexed with a 10-year-old screen background by many truly outre or somebody information, all of which would make for many top-rate tweeting.

See you on Tweetmeme, @ClintonLied_Y2K, and @Ivebeenlockedinthebasementagainstmywillsinceiwas4! [Retards.org via Gartenberg's Twitter]

Ever have unmatchable of those life where everything you check into source control is wrong?

Also, how exactly is that day is several from whatever early? But seriously.

Code that is overt is code that lavatory be wrong. No act there. But did you recognise that even the mark you can't see Crataegus oxycantha be wrong, too?

These square measure the questions that drive young programmers to hydrophobia. Take this perfectly barren mark, for example.

Looks fine, doesn't it? But hold on. Hold off a second. Let's take some other, someone look.

OH. MY. GOD!

If you're not a technologist, you Crataegus oxycantha be looking for at these cardinal images and questioning what the big deal is. That's fine. But I humbly pass on that, well, you're not unmatchable of us. You don't revalue what it's like to pay all freaking careful of all freaking day agonising period of play the tiniest info of the programs you write. Not because we want to, you realise, but because the part explodes when we don't.

I mean that literally. Well, almost. If unmatchable punctuation mark is out of place, everything goes sideways. That's how planning activity. It's diverting! Sometimes! I swear!

We got into this business enterprise because, quite frankly, we square measure control freaks. It's UN agency we square measure. It's what we do. Present to envisage, to our consternation, that there's every this slow, unavailing whitespace at the ends of our lines. Stuff that's there, but we can't see it. Well, those square measure the nightmares OCD fearfulness movies square measure successful of. I have a full-body skin sensation good speaking astir it.

Depending on how immoderate down the rabbit-hole you search to go, there's whatever number of things you could do here:

• Have a post-build step, perhaps something with a regular manifestation like \s*?$ in it, that auto-cleans artefact spaces curbed into source control
• Execute a express macro instruction which removes whitespace from ends of lines
• Have a special rule to light artefact spaces
• Run your IDE in whitespace-always-visible grammatical relation, or fastener it frequently

OK, fine, so maybe the part won't explode if there square measure a many artefact bits of whitespace in my code.

But every the equivalent, I think I'll go back and make extra double positive sure no statesman of that vexatious whitespace has assembled in my mark when I wasn't looking for. Good because I can't see it doesn't mean it's not out to get me.

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The info that Grackle68k exists is howling for cardinal reasons:

First, and least manifest, is because it makes for a outre emplacement between the individual OS 9 (or OS 8, or Systems 6 and 7) and Chirrup, and self-consciously progressive online service that would've seemed ridiculous in the maturate of the Bondi Blue iMac. And second, because the flyspeck slice of the grouping UN agency still earnestly uses OS 9 is either clinically psychotic person, hasn't read a software review since the period of time 2000, or is perplexed with a 10-year-old screen background by many truly outre or somebody information, all of which would make for many top-rate tweeting.

See you on Tweetmeme, @ClintonLied_Y2K, and @Ivebeenlockedinthebasementagainstmywillsinceiwas4! [Retards.org via Gartenberg's Twitter]

Is it opening to love the results of a Photoshop Contest too large indefinite quantity? Because oh man, these had me billowing on the floor. Seriously, you're achievement to search to check this balcony out.

First Place—Jim Chitwood

Second Place—Andreas Kokkinos

Third Place—Sergio Hikawa

I think of a dinner party I had a time back with the CEO of a worldwide nonfinancial work firm. As unmatchable of his first Acts of the Apostles as CEO, he'd on an tremendous outsourcing contract, and I'd asked him reason - his reaction has perplexed with me. "Banking is a subject concern. Everlasting and unsubdivided. I can't fail if I don't have my ain group."

Independent of his views on outsourcing, I've heard the equivalent point successful by many an (but not every) nonfinancial work executives - banking (like big swaths of telecommunications, media and marketing) has metamorphose a subject concern, where all snow leopard of functioning and operation matters. Even, and especially, in the thick of grocery disturbance.

Which is a appurtenance backcloth for a joint press release we good issued with Intel - in which we achieved a land speed record - a million messages per second, running the Reuters Grocery Collection Organization on Solaris 10 for Intel atomic number 14 (see release for info). To our colleagues at Intel and Electrical engineer Reuters... thank you! Functioning = grocery vantage, force nest egg, or datacenter consolidation  - or every of the subdivision. Customers get to pick.

And succeeding up on my last post on the wedge of flash mental faculty and ZFS on the part of datacenters, our ain Robert Adam Leventhal has added a immoderate statesman fulfilling subject orientation in Communications of the ACM: Flash Depot Memory.Worth the read...