pandaman

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2551.
by pandaman 15y ago
The second one has branches, perhaps you meant p += (p[32]<=x)*32; etc?
2552.
by pandaman 15y ago
Judging by the difference in his numbers between C and C++ he did not have a slightest clue of what he was doing. I could imagine a slight difference is possible if you use default compiler switches due to exception handling and difference
2553.
by pandaman 15y ago
It has been done already: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/24/michelle-obama-phot... Your guess is correct.
2554.
by pandaman 15y ago
I am willing to bet that none of the subject's degrees has been in a real science or math.
2555.
by pandaman 15y ago
WebGL is disabled by default in Safari on Air (maybe other Macs too) but if you go to Preferences/Advanced and check "Show Develop menu" then you will be able to enable WebGL support through Develop menu. On my Mid-2011 Air it appears prett
2556.
by pandaman 15y ago
I would not criticize the authors of the article on the basis that they are most likely to fail. They want to make "a more innovative company" not a successful or even profitable company. Making people do things they don't know how to do is
2557.
by pandaman 15y ago
Math is to brain what lifting weights is to muscles. We teach math not because of some useful skills but to increase brain capacity. For the same reason languages used to be taught in the past. As same as with weight lifting it has to be ha
2558.
by pandaman 15y ago
Rape used to be a capital offense in the USSR and no black had been executed for that. However they stopped making the death penalty an option anyways. The reason being that it turned most rapes into rape+murder.
2559.
by pandaman 15y ago
Many people seem to be confused by this statement but I am guessing your liberal arts school taught you that "critical thinking" is what critics do, am I correct?
2560.
by pandaman 15y ago
He says "Use C++11 auto wherever possible." Nobody argues auto and decltype is necessary for generic code but this not what Sutter's writing about. In fact he does not have a single word like "generic" or "template" in his entire article. W
2561.
by pandaman 15y ago
Auto everywhere is pretty dangerous despite what Mr. Sutter says. Many C++ libraries rely on type conversion (in high performance math it's very common however you can find it as close as the STL's vector<bool>). Whenever you use yo
2562.
by pandaman 15y ago
Immigration lawyers love to to offer asylum because these cases can go for decades and anyone can "participate". It also looks attractive to the prospective immigrant when an alternative would be to go through EB or investment immigration.
2563.
by pandaman 15y ago
In my humble opinion the only challenge here is guessing what sizeof(int) the author had in mind. A mild challenge would be asking about something that is not a part of the pointer arithmetic basics such as a[i] === i[a] and obfuscating a b