A better system call mechanism for Linux x86_-2
marc.infoSome code I wrote for Apple II computers failed on //c and later //e machines because the 65c02 they employed turned all undocumented opcodes into NOPs.
I think I still have the annotated listings somewhere.
This is quite possibly one of the worst April fools jokes I've seen. I physically groaned when I read that.
Out of curiosity, what did you find so unfunny about it? It seemed clever.
I agree. Being too clever for your own good is a trap that even experienced developers walk into sometimes by creating very clever yet incredibly stupid solutions to non-existing problems. This aprils fools joke is a satire of that.
Feel free to ignore it :-)
I wish I could. I have a whole load of broken C that divides by zero that will now start actually doing things. I'm worried people might confuse me with a competent programmer after a while ;)
This comment is funnier than the original post. You should write it up as a bug report. Quick, there's still time!
I hate the internet on April 1st.
I love it. It wakes up parts of my brain that'll soon lay dormant until awaken next April.
The Internet, particularly post-aggregation sites like HN, reddit, fark, digg, Slashdot, etc, and social networks like Facebook (and previously myspace) has destroyed April 1st.
The key to a proper April 1st day prank in the past was the mark not realizing it was April 1st. Now basically anyone who is on the Internet has their hand tipped (usually the night before if living in the US because of the global nature of the Internet), thus any good real-world pranking will fall flat as the mark will see the prank coming a mile away. The Internet pranks (which are usually groan-worthy to begin with) don't work either because there are so many of them that the situation becomes immediately obvious... pranks only work well in isolation.
In the grand scheme of things, I'll take the death of "April Fool's Day" if it comes with every positive thing the Internet has allowed, but there's no doubt that "April Fool's Day" is dead in the 1st world (as of 2004 or so)... killed by the Internet.