u/bobbyi

It was LBJ's War on Poverty. I don't think we won that one either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_on_concepts

Can you post this comment on my blog? I don't use reddit.

His signature move is The Exchequer.

PDF is an open standard. Why would implementing a renderer in Chrome require licenses from Adobe? How are "internal API's" in Adobe products relevant to a product that doesn't interact with Adobe software?

Guidelines are not mandatory by definition.

They've been waiting until computers are powerful enough to handle their engine.

The search engine is. They still have Yahoo Mail, Finance, Flickr, etc.

Don't you like surprises?

That's the right number of arguments. The version with more arguments is RemoveCompetitorSoftwareNowThatWeveObtainedPermissionViaADialogDuringTheInstallationProcessEx.

RemoveCompetitorSoftwareNowThatWeveObtainedPermissionViaADialogDuringTheInstallationProcess exists for backwards compatibility with Win 98.

The problem was that once someone actually got an invite, they lost all interest.

I had lost interest before I finally got an invite.

I can change a lightbulb without any electricians. I've done it on several occasions actually.

Unless that technically makes me an amateur electrician in which case I see your point.

I love reading about C++

It's an "interesting" language in the sense of "may you live in interesting times".

That requires you to know ahead of time when you are going to end up with a bunch of related tabs.

The C standard says that the type returned from main is indeed called int. It also says that INT_MAX will be in limits.h.

The size of int in C is "arbitrary" in that it is chosen by the implementation. And this solution is in fact a C program that, for an arbitrary size of int, returns the largest possible number.

Don't worry. They already have a test case for that.

You call SHGetSpecialFolder and use the result it gives you. How is that a mess?

Why do you think they're no longer in business?

Returned as a triumphant conquistador?

Speed improvements aren't an obscure feature.

One of me at most.

Their explanation is that they're charging you for the convenience of them buying special scanners to read the tickets you print at home.

Which they need because those tickets have some sort of magical barcodes that their regular scanners couldn't handle. And which they haven't amortized yet after ten years of Ticketfast.

When asked how exactly he walks in his awkwardly shaped boots he replied, "it's hard man"

They're desperate enough to try anything.

Everyone was born after 1975 or before 2001.

As an end-level consumer, you wouldn't be taking the full source of ffmpeg and compiling it with support for every codec under the sun.