Pirate-C entry point: int main(int arrrgc, char* arrrgv[])

Q: How do you find out why a drum machine is crashing? A: Debug cymbals.

"There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors."

@steipete #define BOXED(val) ({ typeof(val) _tmp_val = (val); [NSValue valueWithBytes:&(_tmp_val) objCType:@encode(typeof(val))]; })

"You are my objectAtIndex:0"

diffstat of osx 10.7.4 & 10.8 kernel sources: https://t.co/7MV2VQ8G
61184 inserted lines, big changes in IP/PF, power mgr, VFS, VMM, crypto

Remember kids: if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, that doesn't mean nobody has overridden the "feed" method to make it explode.

C++: it lets you concisely express in 2 lines what would take 10 in C, as long as you're willing to spend 200 lines setting the stage for it

Just posted my new article - Mixing Objective-C, C++ and Objective-C++: an Updated Summary: http://t.co/0Mr00Di2

The "forgotten founder" of PayPal: Franz Kafka. His spirit certainly lives on in their website and processes.

PayPal are doing a £40,000 prize draw. I'm guessing they just freeze someone's account and transfer the money to the winner.

@cypher specifically: competition is great, unless they're competing with us, and winning.

If you've ever wanted to compile your own OSX kernel, it's actually not hard:  http://shantonu.blogspot.com/  (the info on Apple's site is outdated)

That moment when you want to kick yourself for not making smaller commits has a name: "git bisect"

Pushed a fairly big update to my generic C container library. Docs + a hash table. Aims for zero dependencies as usual. http://t.co/hQh7O30

1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in the same place  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21859771 …

I've just pushed my little C++ auto-boxing/unboxing library for node.js modules to github: http://t.co/ago4pW2

@steipete In case it saves you some wheel-reinventing:  https://github.com/pmj/genccont  /  https://github.com/pmj/genccont/blob/master/src/slist.h …

Klingon typo: path -> ptah

Have there been any multi-processor systems which are not cache coherent and instead use virtual memory and DMA to share memory?