Wow, Xeriar is damn rather ignorant about the actual boot process
linky. Once the kernel loads it's own drivers, they need to find the OS partition to keep loading bits and it doesn't use the BIOS unless it is absolutely needed. Which means how the BIOS presents a USB device to the bootloader really has fuck all todo with if an OS can boot off a random storage device via some arbitary protocal.
And why the fuck is he talking about partitions? The BIOS doesn't care, it just loads X bytes at 'Y' location on the boot device, and the OS bootrecord (to bit the BIOS calls) only needs to care in that it can address where it calls next (aka use offsets which can handle >2tb of diskspace).
Not going to bother posting on sd.net, because what the hell is the point?
phongn wrote:Test-driven-development is not Extreme Programming though it is a component of it.
Test-driven development is something I actually had a chance todo, but that requires knowing what the fucking inputs are and what the outputs need to be.
Civil War Man wrote:Oxymoron wrote:Why does it seems that in real-world engineering, conceiving things in very conservative ways, taking minimums risks and making sure things will works in the most adverse condition is something every engineer should strive for
while in software engineering it's all shortcuts and custom "cook-book" solutions ?
Q: What does a programmer call poorly written code?
A: Job security
A maintenance nightmare which is good for job security.