"If you think C++ is not overly complicated, just what is a protected abstract virtual base pure virtual private destructor and when was the last time you needed one?" — Tom Cargill
He seems to think C is in need of replacement. It is not.
Some of us care about security, and C suffers from a lack of strings or arrays*, making buffer overflows a way of life. This needs to be remedied, and "just don't do that" isn't a remedy.
-jcr
* C has pointers and some syntactic camouflage that makes them appear to be strings or arrays. Don't be suckered.
C++ is a steaming pile of needless complexity. I blame Stroustrup for his inability to say no whenever anyone came up with yet another feature to toss onto the dungheap.
The best thing about C++ is that you don't have to use all of it.
Apple places their stores where they're most likely to generate revenue to maximize the investment of building them. There aren't a lot of whites in China, are there?
I hope that someday Agilent buys the HP name back from the receivers when HP goes belly-up. They'd have some hope of rebuilding the company's reputation.
The e-mail spam that evades my filters is down to one or two a week now, but I'm getting around one call a day from some Desi asswipe pretending to be an IRS agent or a Marriott employee offering me a free vacation. I'd like to know how we in the west can support India's Serious Fraud Office in hunting down and beating the crap out of them.
Bullshit. Racism is not tolerated in polite society, and nearly all of the racists you can still find are either the handful of nazi wannabes or they're tenured leftards in taxpayer-dependent institutions.
Tossing off any racial epithet around here in the silicon valley is likely to make half of the people within earshot fall down in a swoon, and the other half going apeshit over it on twitter within milliseconds. The odds of this allegation turning out to be utter bullshit is approaching unity.
Congratulations on identifying half of the problem. Would it shock you to learn that the previous teleprompter-in-chief did precisely fuck-all to protect our privacy?
Apple doesn't enter a market unless they can bring a compelling competitive advantage with them, whether it's better UI, economy of scale, etc.
If they offer an AR device, I expect we'll see all kinds of entertainment and productivity applications for it in very short order. The latter are the most interesting to me.
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"If you think C++ is not overly complicated, just what is a protected abstract virtual base pure virtual private destructor and when was the last time you needed one?" — Tom Cargill
QED.
-jcr
If you read Stroustrup's Design and Evolution book
Yeah, I'll get right on that, as soon as I'm done with Michael Moore's weight loss book.
-jcr
If you want elegance and power, C++ is pretty nice
Dude, put down the crack pipe.
-jcr
He seems to think C is in need of replacement. It is not.
Some of us care about security, and C suffers from a lack of strings or arrays*, making buffer overflows a way of life. This needs to be remedied, and "just don't do that" isn't a remedy.
-jcr
* C has pointers and some syntactic camouflage that makes them appear to be strings or arrays. Don't be suckered.
C++ is an amazing achievement.
You really need to get out more.
C++ is a steaming pile of needless complexity. I blame Stroustrup for his inability to say no whenever anyone came up with yet another feature to toss onto the dungheap.
The best thing about C++ is that you don't have to use all of it.
-jcr
He's right about C++, though.
-jcr
Apple places their stores where they're most likely to generate revenue to maximize the investment of building them. There aren't a lot of whites in China, are there?
-jcr
I hope that someday Agilent buys the HP name back from the receivers when HP goes belly-up. They'd have some hope of rebuilding the company's reputation.
-jcr
Carly destroyed the HP that we all knew and admired back in the day. I'm not sure there was much Whitman could have done to turn it around.
-jcr
Who would you like to see become the new head of HP, if you got to choose from any acting corporate executive?
Same as Microsoft: Scott Forstall. If he took over there, I would expect to see the best things in their labs actually hit the market.
-jcr
The e-mail spam that evades my filters is down to one or two a week now, but I'm getting around one call a day from some Desi asswipe pretending to be an IRS agent or a Marriott employee offering me a free vacation. I'd like to know how we in the west can support India's Serious Fraud Office in hunting down and beating the crap out of them.
-jcr
/. has an unfortunate infestation of tax dependents and other degenerates. Naturally, they downvote anyone advocating an end to the looting.
-jcr
And this becomes a non-issue.
-jcr
If you want to pass over employment opportunities based on rumor, that's your own problem.
-jcr
The point that just sailed over your head is that we shouldn't take such a claim as true without corroborating evidence.
You may return to your regular virtue-signaling posturing now.
-jcr
Society itself is a "hotbed for racist behavior".
Bullshit. Racism is not tolerated in polite society, and nearly all of the racists you can still find are either the handful of nazi wannabes or they're tenured leftards in taxpayer-dependent institutions.
-jcr
Tossing off any racial epithet around here in the silicon valley is likely to make half of the people within earshot fall down in a swoon, and the other half going apeshit over it on twitter within milliseconds. The odds of this allegation turning out to be utter bullshit is approaching unity.
-jcr
Governments have always done this. Why is this news?
-jcr
Welcome to Trumptopia.
Congratulations on identifying half of the problem. Would it shock you to learn that the previous teleprompter-in-chief did precisely fuck-all to protect our privacy?
-jcr
His contempt for our privacy makes him unfit for any position of authority whatsoever. He should be dismissed and disbarred.
-jcr
The Apple Watch is saving lives, sparky. What have you done for your fellow man lately?
-jcr
Apple doesn't enter a market unless they can bring a compelling competitive advantage with them, whether it's better UI, economy of scale, etc.
If they offer an AR device, I expect we'll see all kinds of entertainment and productivity applications for it in very short order. The latter are the most interesting to me.
-jcr
Thank you for not calling it a clip.
-jcr
That sounds more like a Bernie plan, actually.
-jcr
Edison wax cylinder recording media is damned near impossible to find these days!
Using tape for audio these days is nothing but a hipster affectation.
-jcr