More quotes from CS
Jan. 13th, 2006 11:56 amOn writing a program to find duplicate files, doing so by first hashing with md5:
"For our purposes, md5 is good enough that we can likely just punt the equality test. The probability of two unequal files having the same md5 is less than the probability of a high-energy gamma ray striking the processor and causing a computational hiccup during the process."
On using backticks in the shell:
"The main problem with this way is that the backticks don't nest. Well, they do, but the amount of quoting you have to do is transcendently bizarre."
"For our purposes, md5 is good enough that we can likely just punt the equality test. The probability of two unequal files having the same md5 is less than the probability of a high-energy gamma ray striking the processor and causing a computational hiccup during the process."
On using backticks in the shell:
"The main problem with this way is that the backticks don't nest. Well, they do, but the amount of quoting you have to do is transcendently bizarre."
