Trick question

I just came up with a trick question. Let’s see if you can solve it.

Why will 20 become smaller when you add another zero?

Update: Commenters have been very creative. My original solution was to add the zero at the front, yielding “020”, which is 16 in many programming languages. Other solutions are “20^0 = 1” include “0.20”.

Debugging

I just debugged my OpenAL test program for over an hour, and still had not figured out why it would not play the sound file I gave it. Until I saw this line:

const int volume = 0.9;

And I thought that I was at a point in my life where I won’t make these silly errors anymore.

Quick test

This is a test post to check whether the planet recognizes my hackergotchi. Do not comment on it, I’ll delete it after the check.

Update: Great work, Dan. Now I can’t delete that post. I could if I wanted but I’m too polite to delete comments, but I’ll close comments now.

Problems with GSoC registration site

Seems like the webpage of the Google Open Source Programs is under heavy load currently: I cannot complete my mentor registration. I could not imagine something like this happening to Google servers…