Random ramblings of Tommi Komulainen

You can’t make this stuff up… Nice example why you should start doing code reviews earlier rather than later, while you still have more options than just sucking it up and throwing away the crapcode.

The S stands for Simple

You might even begin to entertain the sneaking suspicion that half of code review work could be done by a trained chimpanzee, a 10-line script, or someone from marketing.

— Valerie Henson in LWN.net

Funny. Sometimes, often while reading The Daily WTF, I get the feeling this is how some code is being reviewed. Except that it’s not half the work, but all of it.

Learn C in two minutes.

I still think no one should be writing applications in C these days. Only on devices with limited resources it makes some kind of sense. Otherwise the overwhelming (un)necessary boilerplate, memory management, chasing pointers and other bookkeeping is just distracting. Wouldn’t you rather concentrate on the application logic?

This must be the best Nokia recruitment ad ever.

Makes me wonder… Should we have a “Jobs” page/RSS feed in maemo.org?

Having configured encrypted root file system for Ubuntu Dapper on my laptop (see Encrypted Root and Swap with LUKS) I find myself hesitating to upgrade to Edgy.

I’ve heard some random breakage happening with scratchbox and the 770 flasher, but what’s more intimidating is that quick googling reveals bugs such as Upstart doesn’t activate luks volumes in cryptsetup. The first two are simple enough tweaks, but losing access to root partition is less fun.

Has anyone successfully upgraded from Dapper with root file system encryption to Edgy? Any tricks one should know?

Greetings From Helsinki!

I liked the Four distinct seasons.

There seems to be a bug in Google Maps.

It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

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