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No, C doesn't define sizeof(int). It is implementation defined. But you don't change it once you implement it in a given development environment... not if you want people to create and maintain production code with your tools. You don't speculate that one day you might want to change sizeof(int). It's just not something you do if you want to be taken seriously.
Is anyone in this thread over the age of 16?
Yeah, that must be it.
ROFL. I challenge you to find documentation for the C language or any other language commonly used in production where they speculate that they might wake up one day and change sizeof(int) on an existing platform.
"Fantastically dumb," indeed.
So, in other words, it's Amateur Hour. All righty, then.
/backs toward door, reaches for doorknob, still smiling and nodding
Wait, what?
So, the irony level that was reached when Jobs ordered the creation of a locked-down cell phone platform wrapped clear around 2^32-1 and back to zero.
My impression is that like most Westerners living today, you have no earthly idea what the term "slave labor" actually means, so we'll leave it at that. Peace.
What was your impression of working conditions on the rural farms that are one of the most often-cited alternatives for many of the Foxconn workers?
Obviously not everything the NSA does is a problem from a Constitutional standpoint, but still... the odds of being ordered to do something I would find grossly unethical are too high for me to want to work there.
Worse still, I could see myself modifying my own ethics over time for the sake of staying in my employer's good graces. How many people can honestly say they would never fall prey to that temptation?
A shame, too, because I'll bet they still have some of the coolest toys around, even in the present age of commoditized supercomputing.
Jeff Bezos was talking a good game there for a while, but nothing ever came of it.
Not if the invention is published or otherwise disclosed in any other form. You don't have to claim ownership of an idea to keep someone else from patenting it.
Prefunding isn't going to get us flying cars, just faster horses.
"Fight/flight response, check. Reattach components. OK, this one's good to go."
Far more important, not all judges are good judges, and hardly any jurors are good jurors.
Hence the (correct) advice to "Be afraid."
So he's able to "measure" how many people don't buy from his company because they make it too difficult to evaluate their products? That sounds like a highly marketable skill in itself.
Memo: when writing an antidisparagement agreement, the first rule of antidisparagement agreements is that you agree not to disclose the existence of the antidisparagement agreement.