[The Java Posse] Re: Why is there no episode 255?

2009-06-09 Thread Eric Raymond
It's all a very subtle nerd joke by Dick. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send em

[The Java Posse] Re: Why is there no episode 255?

2009-06-09 Thread Ruben Reusser
maybe #0xFF got censored... :-) Ruben On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Keith Haber wrote: > > A long time ago they reused an episode number as "part A" and "part > B". I'm too lazy to dig through the site archives to find the exact > episode number. Maybe they're just finally correcting for t

[The Java Posse] Re: Why is there no episode 255?

2009-06-09 Thread Robert Casto
They probably have a problem with it behaving like -1. Now that they are using 2 bytes to keep track of their episode numbers, they shouldn't run into this problem for quite some time. On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Keith Haber wrote: > > A long time ago they reused an episode number as "part A

[The Java Posse] Re: Why is there no episode 255?

2009-06-09 Thread Keith Haber
A long time ago they reused an episode number as "part A" and "part B". I'm too lazy to dig through the site archives to find the exact episode number. Maybe they're just finally correcting for that? On Jun 9, 6:29 am, Casper Bang wrote: > I wondered the same, thought perhaps Dick had a surpri

[The Java Posse] Re: Why is there no episode 255?

2009-06-09 Thread Marcelo Morales
OBOB!, OBOB! OBOB! I say On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Casper Bang wrote: > > I wondered the same, thought perhaps Dick had a surprise up his > sleeve. > > /Casper > > On 9 Jun., 07:01, Jesper de Jong wrote: >> You seem to have skipped episode number 255 - the JavaOne live podcast >> was numbe

[The Java Posse] Re: Why is there no episode 255?

2009-06-09 Thread Casper Bang
I wondered the same, thought perhaps Dick had a surprise up his sleeve. /Casper On 9 Jun., 07:01, Jesper de Jong wrote: > You seem to have skipped episode number 255 - the JavaOne live podcast > was number #0x100, while the one before was episode 254. > > What happened to episode 255? --~--~---

[The Java Posse] Re: Why is there no episode 255?

2009-06-09 Thread Christian Catchpole
oh no.. did dick forget his zero inclusive / exclusiveness when doing hex math. :) On Jun 9, 3:01 pm, Jesper de Jong wrote: > You seem to have skipped episode number 255 - the JavaOne live podcast > was number #0x100, while the one before was episode 254. > > What happened to episode 255? --~--~