Pruning and Polishing: Keeping OpenBSD Modern

http://www.openbsd.org/papers/pruning.html

by protomyth • 11 years ago

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bijay_jayaswal• 11 years ago

Excellent and to the point! Every coder would benefit from this.

pipeep• 11 years ago

Well played:

    <script>
    document.getElementById("bonus").innerHTML = 'body { font-family: "Comic Sans MS", "Chalkboard SE", "Comic Neue", cursive, sans-serif; }'
    window.onscroll = function() {
    document.getElementById("bonus").innerHTML = 'body { font-family: serif; }'
    window.onscroll = null
    }
    </script>

sj4nz• 11 years ago

Thanks for this, I wouldn't have noticed this gag because I don't have any of the fonts in question installed. :)

clort• 11 years ago

Can you explain the gag, for those of us who do not include HTML & CSS in our area of expertise?

I see that the font changes to serif, when the text is scrolled. Is that funny? How does this HTML work?

mjevans• 11 years ago

While I don't notice it because I, by default, deny all scripts.

snoopybbt• 11 years ago

That made me wonder too! Well played Ted, well played.

Canada• 11 years ago

Ted Unangst writes great stuff.

RexRollman• 11 years ago

Agreed. His blog is good too:

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/

atmosx• 11 years ago

I deeply admire the dedication and passion these guys put in polishing and improving OpenBSD.

legulere• 11 years ago

A second example are the simplelock locks once prevalent in the kernel. These locks, which were really macros which expanded to nothing, were introduced long before the kernel was actually capable of multiprocessor operation in a case of premature optimism. When SMP support was finally added, intervening code changes meant that many of the lock and unlock operations were incorrectly placed.

This is a good example for that code that is neither used nor tested is useless.

Pruning and Polishing: Keeping OpenBSD Modern

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