LA police

By the way, I wonder what would be the consequences if they give flame-blowers and machine guns to LA police. And hand grenades, that would be impressive too. A couple of tanks maybe. Or they may have tanks already.

the way they look at us

один мой корешок, только обитающий третий год за океаном, мучимый приступом алкоголизма и ностальгии, минут двадцать выговаривал мне по телефону

Fuck. They think we are miserable losers here, poor immigrants, dreaming of getting back pretending to be winners. Fuck. Maybe thaaat explains why they never contact us first. Fuck. And I thought calling them meant keeping in touch with friends. Fuck. They don't want to hear from us. Fuck. That's the good reason to keep radiosilence. Fuck.

Relatives are a different story. Relatives are forever, as my wise mom told me many times when I was young and even more stupid than I am now.

wtf of the year

http://thedailywtf.com/forums/34366/ShowPost.aspx Christoph (Mathieu Rouleau's coworker) was presented with a daunting challenge: flip all of the bits of an integer (representing a bitfield) to zero. Many programmers would run away and never look back at just the thought of being given such a task. But not Christoph; being the courageous coder he was, he took this vexing problem head-on and engineered a rather elegant solution ...

#define GENBIT(x) 1<<x
#define NUMBITS 32
// ED: Snip ...

unsigned int resetBits(unsigned int bitfield)
{
  int index=0;
  for(index=0;index<NUMBITS;index++)
  {
      unsigned int flag;
      flag = GENBIT(index);
      flag = ~flag;
      bitfield = bitfield & flag;
  }
  return bitfield;
}