I've always considered it a moral failing of our government that the average schlub either needs to pay $$$ to some tax-shaman or spend $$$ to buy software to do his taxes. Even us DIY'ers end up squandering hours of our precious lives just to figure out what our tax responsibility to the government is each year.
It's called a virtual image. The object is placed at one focus of the mirror and the virtual image appears at the other focus. Of course, you're just seeing the reflection in the mirror.
WTF do we saddle ourselves with the network display code if we don't use it? Can't somebody architect a windowing system that had a plugin to efficiently support remote access?
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Maybe 'crucial minutae' wasn't the best way to get my point across.
What I was trying to get at is that "Thinking in C++" did a good job of explaining WHY a lot of those little details work the way they do. This is a HUGE thing with C++ since a lot things are cumbersome because it has to remain backward-compatible with C. And that's why I don't consider it to be an introductory text.
"Thinking in Java" on the other hand, didn't need to fulfill that task. And although it is not a complete introductory text, it did a lot more of "this is what a loop is" or "this is what OO is". The damn tome's bigger than the "corresponding" text for a much more complex language.
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There's no underestimating the contribution that the C language has made to computer science.
C invented the dangling pointer. And it put the buffer overflow on the map.
Kids these days. You have everything we worked hard for handed to you on a silver platter. You have no idea where these concepts even originated. PHAH!
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I always considered "Thinking in C++" to be an excellent book for experienced programmers. It's great for picking up C++ if you already know some other language(s). I wouldn't pick it for someone who was a complete neophyte.
I bought "Thinking in Java" because I expected it to be the same type of thoughful, insightful reading. Boy was I wrong. That book was a total waste. It really seemed that he was concerned with teaching basic programming rather than pointing out the crucial minutae of the language. (Hell, compare the sizes -- ~790pp vs more that 1000pp!) It really seems that Eckel had succumbed to the programming book industry groupthink that bigger is better.
Hey yeah, I remember that, it was awsome!!!! I, well, really it was a friend, I watched him, drove up the side of the volcano and there was a city inside! And then you go into the city run over the people. Yeah, that was great! Ok, it wasn't my friend, but he told me his cousin's friend got 30,000,000,000,000,000 points and maximum karma at that, and a dragon swooped down and carried him off to Vallhalla. And there were naked elf chicks.
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When I was a lad, all we had was ISO-standard grunts. aWLITW!
No, post-ironic is telivision's TJ Hooker trying to sell Vic-20's to the group that he just recently admonished to " GET A LIFE! "!!!
I've always considered it a moral failing of our government that the average schlub either needs to pay $$$ to some tax-shaman or spend $$$ to buy software to do his taxes. Even us DIY'ers end up squandering hours of our precious lives just to figure out what our tax responsibility to the government is each year.
So a handful of Cisco execs makes the same as 10,000 productive employees?!!! That'll show those Commie Bastards that Capitalism Works!(tm)
I mean, be honest, have you ever heard of an instance of any gov't endeavor being cost effective and timely?
The ACLU doesn't even have a clue.
It's called a virtual image. The object is placed at one focus of the mirror and the virtual image appears at the other focus. Of course, you're just seeing the reflection in the mirror.
Good thing I read the warning label that said: "Don't look directly at beam with remaining good eye"!!!
Well that's a relief. I hadn't imagined that they'd use that appendage as the joystick. I was quite disturbed there for a moment.
We cannot let there be a astronautical mineshaft gap!
And I've mentioned that Kartoo has its uses, before.
It's called sapphire (or Corundum ). It's used for windows for all sorts of exotic applicaions.
Does anyone know if the alleged NSA backdoor or the "Netscape engineers are weenies!" key are still in the code?
Microsoft is you friend, citizen!
If your time is "worthless".
(And your bandwith, and your storage, and your CPU...)
"one thing MS has done well is ensure compatability "
Should read " enforce conformity "
OSS should support a standard "default" for things -- but still allow customization. I guess some people would argue that's what RedHat is.
WTF do we saddle ourselves with the network display code if we don't use it? Can't somebody architect a windowing system that had a plugin to efficiently support remote access?
She's no Morgo the alligator boy, but that certainly was a strange new usage of the term "hot chick"!
I found the real imagery dataset here!
What I was trying to get at is that "Thinking in C++" did a good job of explaining WHY a lot of those little details work the way they do. This is a HUGE thing with C++ since a lot things are cumbersome because it has to remain backward-compatible with C. And that's why I don't consider it to be an introductory text.
"Thinking in Java" on the other hand, didn't need to fulfill that task. And although it is not a complete introductory text, it did a lot more of "this is what a loop is" or "this is what OO is". The damn tome's bigger than the "corresponding" text for a much more complex language.
Apparently, on ebay!
C invented the dangling pointer. And it put the buffer overflow on the map.
Kids these days. You have everything we worked hard for handed to you on a silver platter. You have no idea where these concepts even originated. PHAH!
I bought "Thinking in Java" because I expected it to be the same type of thoughful, insightful reading. Boy was I wrong. That book was a total waste. It really seemed that he was concerned with teaching basic programming rather than pointing out the crucial minutae of the language. (Hell, compare the sizes -- ~790pp vs more that 1000pp!) It really seems that Eckel had succumbed to the programming book industry groupthink that bigger is better.
Hey yeah, I remember that, it was awsome!!!! I, well, really it was a friend, I watched him, drove up the side of the volcano and there was a city inside! And then you go into the city run over the people. Yeah, that was great! Ok, it wasn't my friend, but he told me his cousin's friend got 30,000,000,000,000,000 points and maximum karma at that, and a dragon swooped down and carried him off to Vallhalla. And there were naked elf chicks.