Archive for January, 2007

Will Gentoo be the last OS without IPv6 automatic tunnels?

January 29th, 2007 by Samuel Tardieu

Tomorrow, Windows Vista will be available in stores. According to press reviews, this operating system will have IPv6 enabled by default with support for automatic Teredo when native IPv6 is not available.
Teredo tunnels allows a computer plugged to a IPv4-only network to efficiently talk with computers using IPv6 addresses. IPv6 proponents such as myself […]

FizzBuzz and bored programmers

January 26th, 2007 by Samuel Tardieu

On his blog, tickletux advocates the use of FizzBuzz to find developers who grok coding. However, this kind of test may also cause difficulties. What do you do if a candidate answers with the following (correct) C code?
#include <stdio.h>
static const char *t[] = {”%d\n”, “Fizz\n”, “Buzz\n”, “FizzBuzz\n”};
int main()
{
unsigned int i;
for(i […]

Factor: a stack-based programming language

January 18th, 2007 by Samuel Tardieu

As you may already know, I’m a big fan of stack-based languages such as Forth, functional languages such as Haskell and reflexive languages such as Smalltalk. You can imagine how happy I was when I discovered Factor a few days ago: it combines all those aspects.
Today, a friend sent me someone email signature and asked […]

Le geek c’est bon, mangez en

January 8th, 2007 by Samuel Tardieu

Quand un dinosaure geek ferrovipathe 1.0 cède finalement à l’appel du blog, cela donne ceci et moi j’adore.

Heureusement, cela ne tue pas

January 2nd, 2007 by Samuel Tardieu

Comment peut-on écrire, surtout sur le site officiel d’une société, un tel ramassis de stupidités ? Petit extrait :

C’est que l’audience du mouvement “logiciel libre” est étroitement dépendante de l’existence d’une base “populaire” de l’informatique. Non pas que ses militants se recrutent chez les utilisateurs de base, bien au contraire, mais cette utopie intelligente est en réalité, […]

De la précision journalistique

January 2nd, 2007 by Samuel Tardieu

Entendu aujourd’hui sur LCI : « Et oui, un carburant à 793 centimes d’euros en France ça existe. »
Et à l’écran, l’image d’une pompe affichant 0,793€.


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