Greg Comeau's is pretty damned good. Any compiler built off of EDG's (Edison Design Group) stuff is going to be compliant (including the export keyword)
Unless you are stuck having to compile with an old compiler, I don't think this is much of a concern anymore. Most modern compilers are pretty much complete. Support of the export keyword being the obvious exception but thanks to EDG, that's changing as well. The export keyword is probably a bad idea anyway (look up what Herb Sutter has to say on the subject to see why).
Luckily C++ is not controlled by a single entity, so you can probably buy a better compiler for your platform if you are unhappy with your current one.
In news stories, why is the leader of Iraq so often named just by his first name -- Saddam? I've yet to see a story in which the president is referred to as George.
Personally, I no longer know where I stand on this war. I firmly believe that Hussein is a monster, but I also believe that we (the US) made him.
Somewhere I saw a comic that said basically: Reporter: How do you know Saddam has weapons of mass destruction? Senator: Because we kept the receipts.
I think somebody else posted this link earlier: http://www.sundayherald.com/27572
It seems that these companies could do their part in the war on terror by lowering their prices to put the pirates out of business. There may be some pain in the short term, but once the war is won, they can raise their prices again!
I don't think MS can package a Linux distro. I'm sure somebody knows the details, but I believe that when MS sold Xenix to SCO, they agreed to stay out of Unix-land in the future. Anybody know the real story?
Think of the elderly. If I could get my Grandmother on a do-not-call list, I would in a second. She is very trusting has been talked into buying stuff she doesn't need in the past (like a $2500 vacuum cleaner). So yes- she is someone who would sign up on a do-not-call list who would buy something from a telemarketer.
(the vacuum dude was a door-to-door salesman but my Grandmother got out of that one with the help of the attorney that lives across the street from her- not all attorney's are worthless scum)
Okay- this is a bit off-topic, but thought someone here might have some experience with the unit test stuff inside of Boost.
I'm wondering if anybody has used the Boost framework for something more than a toy program. It seems well though out (like all of the stuff in Boost), but I just don't have any experience with unit test stuff. I have nothing to compare it to.
I actually ran into this with iTunes a couple of weeks ago. I often will turn on the visualizations because my 15 month old daughter loves to watch it. She also likes to hammer away at the keyboard.
One day, after some hammering, the visualization stopped changing. It was stuck on one and never changed. I looked through every menu I could find and never figured out what the hell was happening. Then I read in a newsgroup that if you type option-h (or is it apple-h) you get a configuration menu. AFAIK, this isn't available any other way.
So there is a bunch of other stuff buried in there somewhere...
Adding features is easy. But I think often less is more. As an example, I compare Apple's iTunes software with MusicMatch Jukebox. I have both and I much prefer Apple's offering.
When you compare what's under the menus, MusicMatch looks like a mess. In comparison, iTunes seems clean and well designed. I think the ratio of useful features to features follows the 80-20 rule.
It's probably also the reason that I have stuck with Palm handhelds (actually a Handera) when the PocketPC's seemingly have much more to offer.
It is very difficult to make something simpler without losing any essential functionality. And of course what is essential is very subjective. But in the case of iTunes, I think Apple has done a very good job.
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Crichton's "Great Train Robbery" is probably my favourite Chrichton book.
I also though Airframe was very good. Very frantic pacing makes it a quick and enjoyable read.
Christ- they were only going to spend $15,000. I can't believe people got that upset over it. Put it in perspective- a frickin' space shuttle ash tray costs about the same. Geez.
If you are making complex GUI apps quickly, then you must be using a decent dialog layout editor. Which one? The last time I looked (about a year ago), there was nothing that I really liked. Although I found PythonCard and liked it enough to use for some quick 'n dirty stuff (put a pretty interface on what is essentially a batch file).
You say there is an all around increase in violence, but you don't back that up with anything. In the US, television news makes it seem like violence is getting out of hand, but then they only present what keeps people watching.
Do a search for the numbers and they don't reflect what the media presents.
I did a quick search and found the following pages: http://www.cjcj.org/themyth/ http://www.abffe.com/myth1.htm http://www.law.w fu.edu/lawreview/v33n3/W07-ZIMRING.pdf
I only recently discovered you and your show after your book was reviewed here. I bought it (very cool book by the way- excellent text, nice size, nice paper, and looks really good) and since then have caught a couple of your shows. Okay- I'm hooked now.
I think a lot of people here are like me- the gear is an important part of what makes this interesting. So now I'm thinking of investing in some cookware. I just picked up a cast iron skillet and have cooked a few meals just so that I could use my cool new skillet. Simply put- it rocks, and was very inexpensive.
But now when I look for a few more pots and pans, I'm stunned by the price of anything that has a good reputation (specifically I've looked at All-Clad stuff).
What should I be looking for and where should I look for it? Do you recommend picking stuff up piece-by-piece, or biting the bullet and buying something like a 9-piece set all at once? Would it be wise to skip the Williams-Sonoma and head straight to the restaurant supply house?
So... if I print out pictures of the FBI's 10 most wanted people to scale, and my friends and I wear the picture as a mask- what kind of police response would that provoke?
We? Who are you talking about? Slashdot has thousands of readers. Just because some of the loudest readers could be described as fanatics, don't assume all are. I would guess that a large number of us are much more pragmatic.
I know some of C++. I've been using it every day for 7 years and I'm still learning it. Lately I've been working a fair bit with templates while reading Alexandrescu's _Modern_C++_Design (an excellent book, btw) and he does some *amazing* stuff with templates. Unfortunately, my compiler (MSVC) doesn't let me do any of the really cool stuff.:(
So- if macros are like templates on steroids, then I'm impressed.
What does LISP have that Python doesn't?
Macros?
Is a macro similar to Python's exec() or eval() statements? Is 'macro' just another name for dynamic execution of LISP code?
If you claim anything more that a buck or two, you are full of bulshit
If you use a wireless service to check/send mail, then the expense of spam can add up quickly. It's like a collect call that you cannot refuse.
I think a lot of the problem lies with how slow the speed of light is. If you had a computer the size of a room and tried to run it at gigahertz speed, then you would run into all kinds of problems because several clock ticks would happen in the time it takes the first tick to hit the other side of the room. Designing around that could be a real pain. I think this is the reason Cray built their computers in a circular layout.
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It would be far too many widths of a human hair for the average person to comprehend.
Fantastic cast, characters, and story.
Well acted and directory.
Nice to see the example using the boost library. That library rocks! The Lambda library stuff is very cool as well.
Greg Comeau's is pretty damned good. Any compiler built off of EDG's (Edison Design Group) stuff is going to be compliant (including the export keyword)
Unless you are stuck having to compile with an old compiler, I don't think this is much of a concern anymore. Most modern compilers are pretty much complete. Support of the export keyword being the obvious exception but thanks to EDG, that's changing as well. The export keyword is probably a bad idea anyway (look up what Herb Sutter has to say on the subject to see why).
Luckily C++ is not controlled by a single entity, so you can probably buy a better compiler for your platform if you are unhappy with your current one.
The US is very pragmatic. They would do it if they thought it would help out in the big picture (or sadly, at least in the short-term).
Everybody has known for a long time that Hussein is bad news. The US supported Hussein before and after he gassed the Kurds.
In fact the US has acted like a terrorist state itself. See Nicaragua.
In news stories, why is the leader of Iraq so often named just by his first name -- Saddam? I've yet to see a story in which the president is referred to as George.
Personally, I no longer know where I stand on this war. I firmly believe that Hussein is a monster, but I also believe that we (the US) made him.
Somewhere I saw a comic that said basically:
Reporter: How do you know Saddam has weapons of mass destruction?
Senator: Because we kept the receipts.
I think somebody else posted this link earlier:
http://www.sundayherald.com/27572
It seems that these companies could do their part in the war on terror by lowering their prices to put the pirates out of business. There may be some pain in the short term, but once the war is won, they can raise their prices again!
-ec
This is a pet peeve of mine. What is professional about it? Why not just name the book Apache Security? What does the word "Professional" add?
I don't think MS can package a Linux distro. I'm sure somebody knows the details, but I believe that when MS sold Xenix to SCO, they agreed to stay out of Unix-land in the future. Anybody know the real story?
Think of the elderly. If I could get my Grandmother on a do-not-call list, I would in a second. She is very trusting has been talked into buying stuff she doesn't need in the past (like a $2500 vacuum cleaner). So yes- she is someone who would sign up on a do-not-call list who would buy something from a telemarketer.
(the vacuum dude was a door-to-door salesman but my Grandmother got out of that one with the help of the attorney that lives across the street from her- not all attorney's are worthless scum)
-ec
Okay- this is a bit off-topic, but thought someone here might have some experience with the unit test stuff inside of Boost.
I'm wondering if anybody has used the Boost framework for something more than a toy program. It seems well though out (like all of the stuff in Boost), but I just don't have any experience with unit test stuff. I have nothing to compare it to.
-ec
Good point.
I actually ran into this with iTunes a couple of weeks ago. I often will turn on the visualizations because my 15 month old daughter loves to watch it. She also likes to hammer away at the keyboard.
One day, after some hammering, the visualization stopped changing. It was stuck on one and never changed. I looked through every menu I could find and never figured out what the hell was happening. Then I read in a newsgroup that if you type option-h (or is it apple-h) you get a configuration menu. AFAIK, this isn't available any other way.
So there is a bunch of other stuff buried in there somewhere...
Adding features is easy. But I think often less is more. As an example, I compare Apple's iTunes software with MusicMatch Jukebox. I have both and I much prefer Apple's offering.
When you compare what's under the menus, MusicMatch looks like a mess. In comparison, iTunes seems clean and well designed. I think the ratio of useful features to features follows the 80-20 rule.
It's probably also the reason that I have stuck with Palm handhelds (actually a Handera) when the PocketPC's seemingly have much more to offer.
It is very difficult to make something simpler without losing any essential functionality. And of course what is essential is very subjective. But in the case of iTunes, I think Apple has done a very good job.
Crichton's "Great Train Robbery" is probably my favourite Chrichton book.
I also though Airframe was very good. Very frantic pacing makes it a quick and enjoyable read.
Christ- they were only going to spend $15,000. I can't believe people got that upset over it. Put it in perspective- a frickin' space shuttle ash tray costs about the same. Geez.
If you are making complex GUI apps quickly, then you must be using a decent dialog layout editor. Which one? The last time I looked (about a year ago), there was nothing that I really liked. Although I found PythonCard and liked it enough to use for some quick 'n dirty stuff (put a pretty interface on what is essentially a batch file).
Ok. I'll bite.
w fu.edu/lawreview/v33n3/W07-ZIMRING .pdf
You say there is an all around increase in violence, but you don't back that up with anything. In the US, television news makes it seem like violence is getting out of hand, but then they only present what keeps people watching.
Do a search for the numbers and they don't reflect what the media presents.
I did a quick search and found the following pages:
http://www.cjcj.org/themyth/
http://www.abffe.com/myth1.htm
http://www.law.
-ec
I only recently discovered you and your show after your book was reviewed here. I bought it (very cool book by the way- excellent text, nice size, nice paper, and looks really good) and since then have caught a couple of your shows. Okay- I'm hooked now.
I think a lot of people here are like me- the gear is an important part of what makes this interesting. So now I'm thinking of investing in some cookware. I just picked up a cast iron skillet and have cooked a few meals just so that I could use my cool new skillet. Simply put- it rocks, and was very inexpensive.
But now when I look for a few more pots and pans, I'm stunned by the price of anything that has a good reputation (specifically I've looked at All-Clad stuff).
What should I be looking for and where should I look for it? Do you recommend picking stuff up piece-by-piece, or biting the bullet and buying something like a 9-piece set all at once? Would it be wise to skip the Williams-Sonoma and head straight to the restaurant supply house?
-ec
So... if I print out pictures of the FBI's 10 most wanted people to scale, and my friends and I wear the picture as a mask- what kind of police response would that provoke?
We? Who are you talking about? Slashdot has thousands of readers. Just because some of the loudest readers could be described as fanatics, don't assume all are. I would guess that a large number of us are much more pragmatic.
I know some of C++. I've been using it every day for 7 years and I'm still learning it. Lately I've been working a fair bit with templates while reading Alexandrescu's _Modern_C++_Design (an excellent book, btw) and he does some *amazing* stuff with templates. Unfortunately, my compiler (MSVC) doesn't let me do any of the really cool stuff. :(
So- if macros are like templates on steroids, then I'm impressed.
-ec
What does LISP have that Python doesn't?
Macros?
Is a macro similar to Python's exec() or eval() statements? Is 'macro' just another name for dynamic execution of LISP code?
-ec
If you claim anything more that a buck or two, you are full of bulshit
If you use a wireless service to check/send mail, then the expense of spam can add up quickly. It's like a collect call that you cannot refuse.
I think a lot of the problem lies with how slow the speed of light is. If you had a computer the size of a room and tried to run it at gigahertz speed, then you would run into all kinds of problems because several clock ticks would happen in the time it takes the first tick to hit the other side of the room. Designing around that could be a real pain. I think this is the reason Cray built their computers in a circular layout.
-ec