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I don't think this qualifies as a Geek Challenge(TM), due to the likelyhood
of there actually being a solution, so for an un-scored un-trademarked un-
capitalized geek challenge...
You've just replicated a line in vi a bunch of times to look like this:
foo[0] = ...;
foo[0] = ...;
foo[0] = ...;
foo[0] = ...;
What is the fewest number of required kestrokes to turn the zeroes into a
sequence? Assume any number of lines. After all, I occasionally end up doing
10-20 lines of data entry like this.
If you're interested in the last (albeit, also weak) Geek Challenge, it's
a wee bit down
-rbarry
So far we've had politics, random tech babbling, jokes, more politics, a brief
tangle with financial investment strategies - which I hope to pick up again
soon - and a myriad of other subjects in here. In the interest of being
completely fair my constituency (a total of two semi-regular readers of whom
I'm aware,) I tend to avoid deep technical issues.
To be Completely Fair, however, now I chime in on an issue that is sweeping the
Linux world as I type: the Completely Fair Scheduler and its ancestry. Ingo
Molinar has fallen under the gunsights of a number of scheduler authors, who
shall remain nameless, for his alleged hijacking of their ideas and their code.
Several of these lamenters, though one in particular, have made the lambasting
of Molinar something of a crusade.
I find it greatly entertaining that this debate finds any fertile ground
whatsoever in the Linux world. Let's assume for the moment that Molinar was
unashamedly plagiaristic in his work - that a huge percentage of the CFS code
came from other digits than his own. If that were the case, I would still
congratulate him on his continuing in the footsteps of the Linux pioneers.
I'll draw back from the word plagiarism here, but to say that Linus Torvalds
drew heavily upon previous open source projects, like Minux and Gnu, in the
creation of Linux.... would be a whopping understatement. This is only the
first of many such adoptions in Linux, and Molinar's won't be the last.
-rbarry
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