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by qwph 18y ago
Are you talking about the ability to hide a base class method with a derived class method? It's not really considered a good idea to do such a thing, but it's an inevitable consequence of mixing early- and late-binding in the same language
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by qwph 18y ago
OK. It's a poor example. I think the problem with C++ is that it contains far too much syntax, and there are all manner of weird edge cases which you basically have to learn by rote. (For example, how templates interact with the preproces
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by qwph 18y ago
Sure, if you know (to pick just one example) what a protected abstract virtual base pure virtual private destructor is, then yes, you're probably right to choose C++ over C. ( http://amalp.blogspot.com/2007/10/what-is-protected-abstract...
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by qwph 18y ago
You might want to try making contact with other users of the sites you frequent... ;)
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by qwph 18y ago
I remember looking at the Ruby source code about a year ago, so it may have drastically improved since then, but I remember it being a bit of a mess. But it is quite fun to step through the code in gdb and you can learn quite a lot by hacki
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by qwph 18y ago
Ah, so that's where I'm going wrong... ;)
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by qwph 18y ago
I've lost more than one someone over the years. To be honest, the most important thing is being happy with yourself, whether you're in a relationship or not.
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by qwph 18y ago
Losing someone (like most other things) gets easier the more times you do it...
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by qwph 18y ago
From the article: "In 1991, all that was left was the kernel, the brain within the brain of the computer, and thus the most essential component of any operating system, and the hardest part to create. Before Stallman could finish building h
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by qwph 18y ago
Speaking as someone with mouse-induced RSI, this is great news. I can't wait!
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by qwph 18y ago
Assuming 40 hours a week, an extra $0.88 an hour works out at $152.53 a month.
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by qwph 18y ago
I read that halfway, and feel more apathetic now than I did when I started...
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A survival guide for people with Asperger syndrome(www-users.cs.york.ac.uk)
11 points by qwph 18y ago|8 comments
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by qwph 18y ago
I'll bet you that the universe is not destroyed... :)
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by qwph 18y ago
Why do you hate Forth?
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by qwph 18y ago
Learning Smalltalk is a great idea, but be warned - its workflow is very different to most other languages (for example, it doesn't really have a command line in the same sense that Ruby or Python does). If you can get over the first coup
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by qwph 18y ago
(I'm not really disagreeing with you, but) you have the benefit of hindsight. Admittedly, I haven't invented any great stuff, but if I were to claim that it'll never be possible for a human being to travel at greater than light speed, am I
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by qwph 18y ago
Yeah, I'd agree - but making predictions is a notoriously tricky business. Any statement about the future (which is, by definition, uncertain) has some percentage chance of looking absurd in retrospect - and it's a lot harder to make a corr
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by qwph 18y ago
I don't know - there's probably an equally large number of predictions which turned out to be right. They're just not mentioned on this list.
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by qwph 18y ago
Thanks for posting this. I've been trying to track down that quote about rail travel and asphyxia (by Dr. Dionysus Lardner) for ages ...
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by qwph 18y ago
That's interesting. I recently bought a (cordless) Mighty Mouse, and I'd never noticed any problems with the right click on mine. Perhaps yours is a bit flaky? It sounds like it's not affecting your usage anyway. I do agree with maximizing
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by qwph 18y ago
If you haven't already, you might want to give Think a try. It runs on OS X and might be exactly what you're looking for. http://freeverse.com/apps/app/?id=7013
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by qwph 18y ago
One bug I had to fix recently was in the commentary system of a PS2 soccer game (with an ancient codebase, parts of which hadn't been touched in 10 years). The commentator would always refer to a particular player on a particular team by th
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by qwph 18y ago
It's quite a bit more expensive too. But I agree, it does look nice !
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The Great Quux Poem Collection (by Guy L Steele)(csd.uwo.ca)
1 points by qwph 18y ago|0 comments
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by qwph 18y ago
Does anyone really have 2,700 friends?
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by qwph 18y ago
If you're looking for something inexpensive to try, you could try installing anti-rsi software like Workrave (Windows/Linux) or AntiRSI (OSX). They monitor your computer usage and lock you out at regular intervals, so you can have a break,
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by qwph 18y ago
If I had a ULPC, and I really needed to run Windows software on it, I'd be tempted to try running Wine. http://www.winehq.org/
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by qwph 18y ago
I'd suggest "never optimize code without profiling" might work as a better maxim than "avoid premature optimization". Profilers are great for pointing out where you're likely to get the greatest return on investment when trying to optimize.
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Linux mint rocks!(berkshirehunt.com)
1 points by qwph 19y ago|0 comments

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