Thanks for giving away a major spoiler in the title of one of your posts. I haven't gotten to that book yet.

Serves you right for reading blogs :p

While we're at it, you probably don't want to know that Darth Vader is Luke's father, Kevin Spacey is Kaiser Soze, "Rosebud" is the name of a sled, and the Titanic sinks.

"Darth Vader is Luke's father, Kevin Spacey is Kaiser Soze, "Rosebud" is the name of a sled, and the Titanic sinks" I guess that's cute, but the most recent movie on your list is from 11 years ago. The Harry Potter book is from There's a common way to handle spoilers: provide a (spoiler) tag. It's really easy to do.

Comment by James Robertson

The Potter book came out a long while back now...

Yeah, tell me about it. I work for Amazon, and as much fervor there was over the OMGWTFBBQ issues around the book release, it feels like it was an eternity ago.

Six months ago is not that long ago, especially for someone who doesn't have much time to read books. The other thing is what if you are only following the story via paperback editions (which isn't out yet) or the movies?

Jim, Lately I've been thinking Soylent Green tastes very familiar, kind of what I remember chicken tasting like. Do you have any info for us on that front? In my opinion, spoilers should be marked for movies for six months (some idiot blew "The Crying Game" for me) and for books forever. Seriously, I'm not going to tell my kids the ending of Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Speckled Band," and that came out in 1892. Movies made from books remains an unsolved problem for my policy, I admit.

Jim, I have to agree with the anonymous comment above: why spend so much time on Vorlath? He strikes me as a pretty smart old-timer who's unfortunately veering off into crank territory ("I've yet to see a GC that operates correctly", "If your data is so unmanagable that you can't keep track of it, you're doing something wrong.") Maybe eventually he'll get the point of everything that's been happening in the last 30 years outside of C, but you're going to have to let him get there on his own, at his own pace. By the way, I've yet to see a GC that operates incorrectly. It's usually performance under various circumstances that differentiates them.

Jim, I began a comment under the Vorlath post, and previewed it, but didn't submit it. Then I wrote a comment under the current (spoiler) post, which went to the right place. Then I submitted the Vorlath comment, but, as you can see, it went under the spoiler post. Mozilla 1.7.12, Mac OS X 10.4.4, cookies enabled for this site.

That was more entertaining when I thought you were "accidentally" "spoiling" the conclusions drawn in a book on compiler design.