Bug

What we can learn from …

The software in space podcast (by se-radio) put me into thoughts about finding ways to improve code quality. First of all, I think that using void methods in languages that support exceptions is not very useful. Instead, I prefer using idioms like the boolean return value and single exit point. …

Updating Debian Wheezy …

Quick hack to fix it

The latest update of Debian testing (aka Wheezy) breaks GCC, both version 4.x and 5.x:
#include <stdio.h>

int
main (void)

return 0;
}

faif@isengard:~$ gcc --version
gcc (Debian 4.5.3-3) 4.5.3
faif@isengard:~$ gcc -o a a.c
/usr/bin/ld: …

LinkedIn bug?

Question: How is it possible to have 1076 people in my network at company X but no connections at all at the same company?



Answer: Ask the LinkedIn developers!