November 4, 2001
@ 11:58 PM
I also liked the fact that the poster
of that comments makes a big todo about he fact that
Apple quickly posted an update as if adding
quotes to the offending line on the script is some
sort of major engineering feat.
Anyway back to my life. Hacking the Linux kernel
isn't as bad as I expected. Although I bitched
earlier about the lack of comments in some parts of
the code, it turns out that where things get
really complicated there are good blow-by-blow
descriptions of the big picture. Even then there are
a lot of places where comments need to be added,
Heck, I'd offer to add them myself if I had the cred
to have a patch containing only comments to be
accepted.
I'd really like to see some of the practitioners of
eXtreme Programming explain to me exactly how to do
without coments in something as domain specific and
complex as the Linux kernel. <sarcasm> Yeah,
descriptive variable names and smaller sized
functions are al I need to get a good idea of all the
strategies implemented and their ramifications in the
memory allocation code when the system is low on
memory.< /sarcasm>
Also my dating life currently sucks because I'm
taking 20 hours and barely have enough time to sleep
and eat let alone be in a relationship or engage in
pursuits that would lead to one. Taking 20 hours now
seems like such a dumb idea especially since if I
fuck around and fail a class which would make me
ineligible to graduate in December defeating the
purpose of taking the GPA hit of a 20 hour course
load in the first place. *sigh*