filthydumbidiot

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by filthydumbidiot 10y ago
Freebooting is certainly more specific than piracy, but I think you may have missed the word "like" in there. GP means that the word "freebooting" itself is not new, but its new meaning in today's context is (like &
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by filthydumbidiot 11y ago
In short, emphasize the skills and experience you do have. Apply and interview far and wide at all the companies that remotely interest you. A bit of background: I have been coding since an early age and hold an arts degree. I had no seriou
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by filthydumbidiot 11y ago
Interesting. Here's a similar project from a couple years ago: http://sarvagyavaish.github.io/FlappyBirdRL/
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by filthydumbidiot 11y ago
To get an image of how the language grew (from a mid-90s perspective), you can read "The Design & Evolution of C++" by Bjarne Stroustrup. Then read "The C++ Programming Language (4th ed.)" to understand the new parts
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by filthydumbidiot 11y ago
"You are hearing me talk." -Al Gore-ism
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by filthydumbidiot 11y ago
Judging by your capitalization, you must be of the BASIC school of aesthetics...?
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by filthydumbidiot 11y ago
Or BF Joust: https://esolangs.org/wiki/BF_Joust
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by filthydumbidiot 11y ago
Note also that the real cost of the pool allocation is up front in the "Pool construction" field. At 368ms in this benchmark, it takes even longer than all of the heap allocations! With pools, you pay an up-front cost for the fast
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by filthydumbidiot 11y ago
By explicitly calling the destructor, you could do away with the requirement that classes must implement a "reset()" member function (which, aside from being an extra step for users, does kind of make RAII in their classes somewha