acg

27 ms·

241.
by acg 17y ago
In my experience women are far more self-conscious meeting the opposite sex, displaying a complete range of behaviour from being nasty to people they like through to completely avoiding them because they can't cope. It seems this is one of
242.
by acg 17y ago
You could view SCM systems as dropboxes for code. When you write code you want to go back and make edits like you said. These tools allow you to do this and keep track of the life of your program and to learn the basics you would only rea
243.
by acg 17y ago
Outside tech circles, I'm not sure I know anyone who knows what a Zune is.
244.
by acg 17y ago
This seems like slow news to me: poke about in wayback machine and put it in the newspaper. It's not even accurate.
245.
by acg 17y ago
Two things: - Of course there are lots of good things written in C++, there are also lots of dreadful things. This is not a reflection on the language so much but the talent of the developers involved. If nothing good had been written in t
246.
by acg 17y ago
I hear good stories about D from colleagues: http://digitalmars.com/d/2.0/overview.html
247.
by acg 17y ago
Don't you mean statically bound? I think quite a few C++ programmers get into the mindset that once the program has compiled that's the end of the optimisation. It depends on the system that is being run, but if the system has a long runti
248.
by acg 17y ago
Perhaps, or perhaps C++ programmers who defend the language haven't spent enough time in other languages. If you are just plugging components together I can think of better languages. In my experience C++ demands more time that most languag
249.
by acg 17y ago
Hardly, I know many people who spent years learning C++ in the 90's only to avoid it now. The reason is they had no love for the language. The C++ language design has serious flaws that whenever someone brings them up there's the usual, rol
250.
by acg 17y ago
This patent seems ridiculous, it seems if you were going to use XML for a document format you might want to express what that document meant using other data, rather than code. Isn't this just a data-driven approach?
251.
by acg 17y ago
I agree, it seems to escape him that Sony don't make business decisions on aesthetics alone: judging by the past Sony does this sort of thing when it's beginning to think about another product. This miniaturization also normally means the p
252.
by acg 17y ago
Why CDs make up 65% of U.S. Music sales
253.
by acg 17y ago
Google were always going to have a tough act to follow. What Apple have pulled off with their platform is nothing short of amazing: but they have used technology they had, and adapted. Google is inventing a lot of the stack, and aren't ro
254.
by acg 17y ago
One of those articles where the author has a preference and justifies it because something on the other platform doesn't work well. Then does the dramatic the-whole-stack-is-wrong routine making the other system look next to godly. Then t
255.
by acg 17y ago
"Nevertheless, experts say that IE6's demise is sure and company is only delaying it." I'm sure that Microsoft would love to stop supporting it, but there are still plenty of users that don't really have an alternative: Microsoft dumping th
256.
by acg 17y ago
This is healthy, better competition on the browser market should result in the platform becoming solid. I'm hoping we don't see the fragmentation that we saw in the OS market. This time round it looks more like a race: at least while the st
257.
by acg 17y ago
Speaking from experience I really don't want more FB mail: the interface terrible. Is anyone convinced on using FB for anything apart from looking at your mate's holiday photos and keeping in touch?
258.
by acg 17y ago
Perhaps the new architecture means that more pages are indexed more frequently. Could it be an architecture that supports more "realtime search" (after twitter search). I notice the news is pretty up to date.
259.
by acg 17y ago
I completely agree, the interviewer is hardly impartial: he pushes Bjarne to admit what he'd like. Although I can't help thinking we have all been here before. C++ despite using it for a over a decade still feels like a research project,