sbmassey

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by sbmassey 15y ago
The OP seems to be conflating two different things: undoing an action (closing a file, etc), and performing the inverse of a reversible function. The first is amply covered by the RAII/unwind-protect etc idioms than most languages do have.
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by sbmassey 15y ago
There are some C++ libraries that are perhaps more complex than the equivalents in other languages, but tr1::regex's are pretty much the same as regexes in any other language, if you discount the static typing stuff.
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by sbmassey 15y ago
They should have some kind of "fair trade" certification for drugs so that you know that the producers are gentle-hearted, God-fearing types.
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by sbmassey 15y ago
Yes. Treating 'they' as singular also has precedent in English with the replacement of 'thou' with 'you' as second person singular. Perhaps future Southerners will use 'they-all' as third person plural.
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by sbmassey 15y ago
What are the alternatives to RSS? Do people really use Twitter instead? What else is there?
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by sbmassey 15y ago
I wonder if vim would work on the iPad.
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by sbmassey 15y ago
Any plans to get it on macports?
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by sbmassey 15y ago
Lulz
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by sbmassey 15y ago
It's a Unix with most of the bells & whistles (albeit a different flavor to Linux), plus you get to use a decent selection of commercial software.
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by sbmassey 15y ago
Attempts to calculate that for the myriad different investment strategies are exactly why we have such a large and complex financial system.