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Bloody stupid things to do when writing C libraries, #78







Bloody stupid things to do when writing
C libraries, #78

Bloody stupid things to do when writing
C libraries, #78
12/15/2003 02:05 PM

...having callback function arguments that do not take a corresponding invocation-specific data pointer. You want to have a function that takes a function pointer, and have your library call that function at some point in the future if some event happens? Cool! Works for me. I like those. (Well, sorta, event/callback/async programming is a pain) However.... the signature should never be: int register_callback(func_pointer_t callback); Bad! Bad programmer! No cookie! That signature should be: int register_callback(func_pointer_t callback, void *extra_data); Or, if you'd rather, take a struct that has the function pointer and callback data in it, if you don't want to...




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This evening I took some photos with my camera and sent them to Flickr. And when I went to Flickr, this is what I saw:

Vodafone, my mobile phone provider have started to turn all outgoing e-mails that go through their system into image-full HTML e-mails, dripping with highly-branded bullshit advertising crap that clearly they believe I've been clamouring out for. Except of course it breaks Flickr completely. Each photo I post is now complemented by spacer gifs, little logos, gif text and dumb bloody icons. Flickr treats each as a separate image. The act of posting four photos makes pages of empty marketing guff appear across my photostream - and by consequence all over my weblog. Effectively, with one flick of a switch, my camera phone has become useless and my desire to use Vodafone immediately and effectively zero.

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I rang up in a fury and they're looking into it, but if I don't get a satisfactory response I don't think I can stay with them any longer. No doubt there is a way around this stuff, but mobile phone connectivity is excruciating to set up, and covered in proprietorial crap that seems designed to do nothing but confuse. And if it's confusing me a lot, then I'm assuming that other people will be as or more confused by the whole thing. Therefore, at this precise moment in time, I'd say if you were thinking of using your cameraphone to post to your weblog or to Flickr, then you should seriously consider staying well away from Vodafone. And if you're stuck with them already - ring them up, shout at them or send them e-mails telling them to stop trying to milk every last penny of value from every picture message that someone sends, because it's sure as hell going to start hurting their bloody business if it's not possible to use these services in the way that see fit...

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So I've been trying to respond to the thread about my apparent obsession with going on about my sexuality (note - they're talking about this) that's manifested over at NSLog(); except now all my comments are getting bounced for 'questionable content'. I've tried removing all the rude words from what I write, but god knows it's hard, and it doesn't appear to be doing any good. Before anyone goes running at his head suggesting that he's blocking comments like this to avoid debate, I should point out that I've been having problems with the MTBlacklist questionable content filters recently, so I'm not implying anything. Instead I thought I'd just post it here, with all the rude words back in... Feel free to post your own thoughts about this stuff either here or over on his site... But be nice, eh?

If what you're doing here is warning me that by having my sexuality on a card I might give out to people might stop me getting jobs, then thank you very much. Clearly by my age I wouldn't have figured that out already.

Figures suggest that people who don't meet their partners at school or university tend to meet them through work. Clearly this happens by complete coincidence - two people (let's say they're straight) are so conscious that they must not be flagrant about their heterosexuality that they avoid all mention of it for years until they happen to bump into each other at some kind of 'straight bar', recognise their attraction suddenly and fall into each other's arms. Clearly there's absolutely no assumption that it's okay to flirt with each other at a Christmas party or whatever. Clearly no one talks about what they did at the weekend if it could possibly be construed as to make any reference (direct or indirectly) to whether they're gay or straight or not. So they wouldn't say that they'd cooked a meal for their girlfriend, or go to see a film with their boyfriend. Clearly they wouldn't say out loud that they'd had a birthday party for their 3-year old son. I mean all of these things would be shouting from the rooftops about their sexuality. They may as well be standing outside your house with placards or rutting like Bonobo monkeys on the photocopier.

And quite right, I think, they should be ashamed of themselves - fornicating with their partners at home! Giving birth to children! Socialising with their family! Getting married! The shame. They make me sick.

I can honestly say that I'm stunned by your statement that you cannot see the difference between someone feeling the need to make it clear they were gay to avoid discomfort and awkwardness for themselves and their colleagues, and the fact that straight people simply don't need to do that stuff. Straight sexuality comes up in conversation a dozen times a day - by association, by reference, however.

At no point during my piece over on plasticbag.org or here have I said that a gay person should 'go on about' their sexuality. In fact quite the opposite. As far as I'm concerned, getting it out of the way early means that the whole thing becomes less of an issue - not more. It's about everyone knowing where they stand, so that they don't say something crass in the office like, "Oh that photocopier is so gay" while someone over the other side of the room feels it like a kick in the head. It's so that the gay individual concerned doesn't have to go through this whole long drawn-out tentative process with each member of staff as issues of boyfriends/girlfriends, what you did at the weekend, what you think about some piece of the news, whether you fancy that bird in accounting come up in idle conversation. Because that stuff is bloody difficult and infuriating and frankly I'm not prepared to go back to a time where I have to go through all that bollocks every time I happen to meet a new human being.

All of which misses the point. I don't make a secret of my sexuality, but nor do I tend to make a big deal about it. Most people who read my site have no idea that I'm gay. They find it a 'surprise' when they find out. I wish that wasn't the case. I wish that they weren't assuming that I was straight. I wish it wasn't an issue at all, but it remains one I'm afraid. I could bring my sexuality into my site all the bloody time if I wanted to, but I don't. I think I've struck a good balance between making my sexuality clear and then getting it off the table to talk about other stuff. And if you don't like that balance, well frankly tough. I don't care whether you like it or not. I'll be damned if I'm going to treat the rest of my life like my teenage years and live in fear of 'being found out'.

I should also point out that you've missed a hell of a lot of qualifying language from my post as well. I mean the very title includes, "In a happier world...". The text itself calls it a "Tongue-in-cheek-ish slightly-bored early-evening version of what I would kind of like my business card to be like." I stand by it - if anything your reaction makes me want to use it more - but it was never meant to be anything but a throwaway offhand happy and less formal card that I felt represented me accurately. It's true that I don't think that the normal separation of life and work is a reasonable one - that I think that we should act according to our principles in both, that we should care about our work all the time, that it should ideally be a passion and as much of our personality as things like your sexuality or nationality or political beliefs or whatever. I really care about my work and don't just see it as something that pays the bills, any more than I think my sexuality is just about something that happens in bed with a friend. But just because I'm not as willing to distinguish between the things I get paid to do and the things I do because I think it's the right and proper way of operating in the world, doesn't make it reasonable for you to conflate two words on a mock-up of a business card with a form of big swinging-dick sex-obsessed radical queer activism!

Oh and somewhere along the line you also make some comment about how I seem to have a lot of respect for myself, and I'm beginning to think that's really where a lot of this stuff is coming from. If you find me personally annoying or offensive then just say so and we can talk about that like grown-ups. Seems at the moment that the only person fixating on my sexuality is you.

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I'd like to someday live in a country where a quick nipple shown on TV isn't the end of civilization, and that's not what irks me about the halftime show tonight. What does get me about the Superbowl halftime show is CBS insisting it was an accident, calling it a "wardrobe malfunction."

It's funny, when you collect the evidence, I wonder if CBS really thinks the public is stupid enough to believe it:

1. It was planned from the start.
2. There are snaps on her outfit clearly visible, designed to be unsnapped. Most garments are sewn together sans snaps and don't fall apart.
3. She's wearing a "nipple shield" to partially cover her breast. If it was unplanned why on earth would she have this huge chunk of metal there? Was it to skirt some FCC rule against an entirely naked breast?
4. Worst of all: She has a single coming out which is coincidentally being rushed to the airwaves based on the "overwhelming worldwide demand." Check the timestamp on the bogus press release, it was posted before the game was even over.

Is it all a big coincidence or is this how controversy is manufactured to sell records these days?


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"Innate intelligence has to do with capability and ignorance to do with variables such as educational opportunity and personal diligence. But the conundrum remains. Is intellect important in presidents? If Americans can't solve the question definitively in the matter of John Kerry and George Bush, we damn sure ought to make an educated guess."

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Doc chimes back.....

Digital codestyle aggregation < STRONG>
  Two datapoints, perhaps historical.
  First, Sun apparently decides that the revenue model to beat (since charging for hardware and software seem to be losing propositions) is selling services. Bill Snyder (from that last link):
  Stripped of the marketing hype, Sun hopes to sell services, rather than simply pushing hardware and software at its customers, and have them pay as they use those services.
  Second, Marc Canter's latest rap: Ho w to make money with digital lifestyle aggregators - Part I. Excerpts:
  Aggregation is a killer app - that no one owns. It's public domain. Everyone benefits from it. So is integration as well...
  To start to reap the benefits of digital lifestyle aggregation - you need to get smart about architecting systems that rely upon XML, open standards and web services.
  So personalization and customization find their destiny intermixed with Integration and Aggregation. The only way to produce compelling enough experiences is by integrating a wide range of built-in constructs, combining that with agregated web servcies and content and topping it all off with unprecedented levels of control and customization. In one product or service.
  All three of these tenets are tatooed on my forhead.
  ----
  OK so wait. This post was supposed to be about 'making money' - and you're lost. Right?
  Well think about it - you couldn't possibly (on your own) produce even half of the built-in constructs, features and capabilities we're saying digital lifestyle aggreation (DLAs) requires. That's where open source comes in.
  By supporting and contributing to open source projects - portal vendors will actually be able to have their cake and eat it too - proprietary solutions, branded memes and viral uptake. Just give open source a try - define it to your own requirements and insights and help out the world while you're helping yourself.
  I think he's saying "sell your environment," no? Not clear.
  In anycase, it's not about selling. It's about renting. You rent your domain names, your Net access, your disposable hardware. Stop and think about that last one for a bit. Your personal data — the stuff on your laptop's hard drive — may change constantly, but it's your life in a box. And it moves every two or three years (if not more often) from one laptop or desktop or removable drive or remote host to another. What you pay for a new box almost amounts to a revolving charge, an annuity. Rent.
  So you charge on a project basis to build stuff, then you rent out your space or your services. Oldest models in the world.
  Welcome to the land of deflated but sustainable margins. Also the land of the finally grown-up computer business. (When it gets there, which it isn't yet.)
  Look at it this way: It's the work, stupid. A new slogan I'm trying on for size. Serves in architecture, design, construction, and a pile of other fields from which the computer biz borrows its lingo. Why not here too? [D oc Searls]

Marc's add-on.....

This is getting fun.

Having folks like Doc add their two cents to this is like collaboratively writing a business plan...

a) As usual I learn more from Doc by just listening.  I don't necessarily see it as "sell your environment" as much as "give away compelling experiences - that if they're done right - will have PLENTY of good old fashioned advanced features that people will pay for.  Only folks who appreciate and can gain value from software should have to pay for it.  Every vendor has to figure out the seam between free and paid (as 6A just did.)

b) One thing about this rental angle that Doc adds in - is that you're also renting access to a community of others just like you - doing the same thing.  That's what's cool about the AlwaysOn Network right now.  There are otehrs blogging about teh same stuff and collectively we present a group voice.  Lots of other examples of this sort of juju out there.  Now there's one that tightly coupled to a social network -as well.  Again putting things into context (which is what danah has been screaming for......)

c) Finally - Doc reminds us all that the REAL savings is not in less licesning fees, but in self support.  How much IT money is spent on training, support, and migration?  What if everyone could support each other?  I mean - Oh My God!  All this AND I get to be called a leader in the Open Source Widget business?

Why wouldn't  portal jump on board?  I just hope Terry Semel, Ruppert Murdoch and Richard Branson grok this. I think Barry Diller does.


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Being Stupid and Homophobic


Being Stupid and Homophobic 06/21/2004 01:05 AM

Joi Ito calls Ray Bradbury's complaint about Michael Moore's movie Fahrenheit 9/11 stupid and compared it to a supposedly homophobic essay by Orson Scott Card.

Don't you hate it when your favorite writers do, write or say stupid things?

This reminds me of the horror of reading Orson Scott Card's homophobic essay, "Homose xual "Marriage" and Civilization".

The following is an edited version of my comment:

I think Bradbury's position is understandable and definitely not stupid. Don't you think the proper thing for Michael Moore to do was to ask? If Bradbury was pro-Bush, he wouldn't have wanted the title of his works being used for Michael Moore's movie. For him to just blatently use the title like that is just plain asinine.

As to your comment about Orson Scott Card being homophobic, I don't see what is wrong with being homophobic. If there is nothing stupid about being afraid of heights or spiders, why is being homophobic stupid?


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the world of DSDL

American football
star phones mom (in
middle of game)

Bapco releases
Sysmark 2004

The weather outside
is frightful

MSNBC - How We Got
Saddam

AdAge's 2003
Marketer of the
Year: Apple

Toshiba Creates
World's Smallest
Hard Drive

Storage software
market looking up

EDS names head for
service delivery

Advertising Age
names Apple
'Marketer of the
Year'

MacUser reviews 20"
iMac, Shake 3, more

Sweetwater Hot Deals
updated

Monster offers
iCarPlay Wireless FM
transmitter for
iPods

Macworld reviews
1GHz 15" PB,
Soundtrack 1.0, more

BuyMusic CEO: 'We're
nowhere near Apple's
numbers'

Hutchison 3G
subscribers top 200K

Hong Kong 3G service
set for January
rollout

KDE and Debian
developers call for
greater desktop
collaboration

Apple profiles Lowry
Digital Images

Apple gets Marketer
of the Year accolade

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