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by zabzonk 2y ago
Are we talking something like two weeks continuous, or an hour here and there?
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by zabzonk 2y ago
>EARLY ACCESS Ebook, $79.99 Oh, come on now! Or all these NoStarch books ludicrously over-priced?
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by zabzonk 2y ago
> I can't think of an animal that has had a worse press than the rat. Except perhaps the flea. For me, the cockroach, by far.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Obviously, it doesn't. But having estimation skills (which is what the golf ball stuff is about) is always useful, specifically when doing testing. I wouldn't want to hire someone that couldn't estimate what the price of thei
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by zabzonk 2y ago
A and B were already used. Somewhere.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
> you can easily pick up minutia about C++ copy constructors Hollow laughter. And if it were true (which it isn't) how well can you explain those "minutia"?
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by zabzonk 2y ago
> Probably not something you want them to know Why not? But if your schema is so secret, come up with a simple one for use in interviews. > You also assume they know SQL I specifically said this was for a c++/sql job. > so you
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by zabzonk 2y ago
All guides, all well worth reading: https://beej.us/guide/
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by zabzonk 2y ago
It's easy to come up with questions they can't prepare for - example, for a C++/SQL database job: 1) Present them with your database schema, give them time to read and (at least partially) understand it. Allow questions. Give
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Slightly OT: Interview question(s): "Write a function to reverse a string/linked list" Me, as interviewee: "You spend a lot of time reversing things, do you?" I don't understand why people are so obsessed with
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by zabzonk 2y ago
> the readme continues to use the term STL to refer to the C++ standard library. Would not be the first time Microsoft were wrong about a standard.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I don't know why you are going on about "skills" - I never mentioned such things in my comment - something you have introduced, I think. I do agree though that however "skilled" you are strtok() (and other C strXXX
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by zabzonk 2y ago
> easy-to-use API A lot of C (not so much C++) programmers thought it was easy to use correctly. Mostly, they were wrong.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I'm amazed it has taken so long to get rid of strtok(). This is one of the worst designed and most misused functions I have ever seen - just about every use of it I have ever come across has been wrong. Write your own mini-parser rathe
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by zabzonk 2y ago
> Evermore park in the US Another great Jenny Nicholson review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9OhTB5eBqQ
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Hemp and cannabis are both varieties of the plant Cannabis sativa. Hemp contains less THC, and is used for things like making rope.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
At least for games, design everything to be useable for mouse input only, if you want my money. Mind you, do not play FP shooters and the like.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
simply checking for NULL doesn't allow that - for example for something that might have been opened with fopen() needs to be closed with fclose() rather than free(), and you can't tell that from the pointer.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
> Laptop size doesn't matter. Laptop weight is what matters. Depends what you do with them. For years I have used laptops in development simply to avoid all the wiring associated with desktops, and for doing things like running the
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by zabzonk 2y ago
It is very glossy (which makes the touchscreen nice to use), but also very bright and high-contrast - personally, I have had no problems at all with readability (rather the reverse) but I don't use mine outside. It's a great displ
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by zabzonk 2y ago
> Notice any burn-in issues with the oled? Not yet. As I said, I only bought it recently, and Asus have all sorts of settings in their rather good MyASUS app to mitigate this. Hopefully I won't see any problems for a couple of years
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I have recently bought an Asus Zenbook 14 (inch) OLED with Intel 9 Ultra CPU and ARC graphics. It's the best laptop that I've ever had - fast, light and decent battery life (though I'm not so worried about that). And it was q
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by zabzonk 2y ago
might as well free the NULL pointers as well - this is totally valid C and can simplify the code
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by zabzonk 2y ago
A lot of people liked "Sometimes A Great Notion". I personally prefer it to "Cuckoo". It doesn't read like something written by someone whacked out on acid.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
We never identified the root cause of the problem. As we couldn't really do anything very useful with them, there was not much incentive.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
When I worked at Middlesex Polytechnic in North London, UK in the mid 1980s DEC actually gifted us with three of these things (we were a big DEC customer - Dec10 and several VAXen). We really had no idea what to do with them as they came wi
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Better still, fetch him a Bugblatter Beast of Traal, and let the two of them duke it out.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I think both Adams and Berners Lee were influenced/inspired by Ted Nelson and Project Xanadu. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu
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by zabzonk 2y ago
> it makes no sense whatsoever to let the artificial voice of a chatbot, chatting randomly away at dazzling speed, replace the far slower but authentic and reflective voice of a thinking, living human being. well, of course this is the b
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Factoid: Honey Bunnies feature in the Thomas M. Disch SF-ish novel "On Wings Of Song".

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