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  1. Re:Given how C++ is taught. on Knowing C++ Beyond a Beginner Level · · Score: 1

    I'll go review this, but based on your own words. I don't see how using make_unique does anything, but give me multiple strings to add to my search list for possible causes of leaks. I would rather people focus on proper heap tracking and weather they have an equivalent delete/free for each memory allocation then what method name they type to initiate an object.

    C++14 also introduced std::make_unique, which doesn't save anything over calling new and then casting to a std::unique_ptr,

  2. Re:Angular momentum at the park on Turning a Nail Polish Disaster Into a Teachable Math Moment · · Score: 1

    The counter circles allow a more experienced (with the roundabout) driver to avoid driving around the entire circle before exiting on the previous outlet. Simultaneously, inexperienced drivers freak-out and stay on the longest lane mitigating traffic in high volume areas. Swindon for the win.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  3. Re:No surprise on Fallout 4 Will Be Skipping Xbox 360 and PS3 · · Score: 1

    You want to talk about refusing to die. The Dream cast is getting a game this year.

  4. Re:Fear of guns on Stormtrooper Arrested · · Score: 4, Insightful

    At worst you will get shot and he will have a very good case for "Afraid for his life". You might be better off if you tacle him while yelling "Shooter in the Parking lot lets detain him". Then all those individuals who conceal carry have an excuse to be "Afraid for their lives". Its all about making the legalize work for you!

  5. I hope this movment dies out. on Diphtheria Returns To Spain For Lack of Vaccination · · Score: 1

    Curious if they vaccinate there next child. Its easy to sit above everyone when you have never seen the issue, because its been almost entirely eradicated, but at the turn of the 20th century people were ready to stand in line for the mere chance that they could prevent permanent disability or death from a number of childhood disease.

  6. Re:20 Years on How Java Changed Programming Forever · · Score: 3, Funny

    That is disingenuous. You pay 99 dollars to test apps on your friends device.

  7. Most people who are in to sports don't actually play them. They watch other people play them. At which point your just learning how to commentate on a game and I doubt the fact that other people are exerting themselves really makes it better then then playing a video game.

  8. Honestly, that describes almost every hobby people have where you do not use personal job skills by extension. (Sports, Reading Fiction, Social Planning...) MMOs are social platforms people play them more to communicate, but the platform is filled with lots of short term activities with long term rewards. That is to say the platforms are designed with carrots on sticks but you don't realize for a long time when your playing. Initially you wan to learn the lore, maybe gain skill at the platform and play with friends, but your friends are leveling up so playing with them is a moving target. Once your max level then you have gear score to keep up with to keep running new content. When you add collecting achievement systems and various other built in bottle necks you slowly realize your chizzling away at a very thick wall trying to tunnel out.

    I personally can not believe blizzard did this. Wow isn't free to play thats 14.99 x 100k or 1.4 Million a month that is a lot of beer for developers. Something had to happen to really make them believe they had both good detection system that wouldn't have to many type I errors and additionally, removing the income would some how stem the tide of its legitimate subscription loss. I'm honestly surprised they didn't try to instead tax the accounts in some way via both in game and real world currencies.

  9. Re:Pretty sure the heat death of the universe will on Criticizing the Rust Language, and Why C/C++ Will Never Die · · Score: 1

    Cobol is in attrition as far as most of the world is concerned. The starvation may take a while, but its occurring. Fortran is link compatible with C and to many actively maintained simulations are based on it. Fortran will be around for at least as long as C is around. It will take generations of programmers to abandon C++ before that becomes a reality a honestly what takes over will likely be a certified subset of C++ that is considered safer and easier to work with.

  10. Re:I like how this got marked troll on Linux Mint Will Continue To Provide Both Systemd and Upstart · · Score: 1

    I've run Gentoo for almost every project since 2004. It has changed a lot over the years and really matured. When we used to do stage 1 installs you could mess up a great deal by using USE flags that configured unstable behavior, but now it is pretty stable. I would stay away from global flags and instead look towards an appropriate profile like Desktop/Server then modify your USE flags on a per package level in /etc/portage/package.use

    The rc.init system to me is light years above other offerings, but its possible I just really like colored ascii.

  11. Re:No, but your own choices are. on Is Facebook Keeping You In a Political Bubble? · · Score: 1

    They can be many to one, All liberals could know only one conservative who just likes to have a large number of friends.

  12. Re:Never happen on The Medical Bill Mystery · · Score: 1

    Collective bargaining should be illegal in health care. Insurance companies will not allow the prices to go above the "negotiated prices" so once you take collective bargaining off the table the prices will stabilize. I guess in an ideal world the Madicade price list would just be applied to all procedures for all patients and actually include realistic prices. All hospitals would be required to submit the average cost of the top 100-1000 procedures for there service domain and then an aggregated price would be published publicly each year.

    Medical Care is a utility it should be regulated like one. Billing should be standardized like the article and prices should be reasonable.

  13. Re:Technically C++ on Singapore's Prime Minister Shares His C++ Sudoku Solver Code · · Score: 1

    Given the date he wrote it my guess is it would not have compiled under any standard c compiler. He does most of the foward declarations, but he uses C++ style comments and C++ style void declarations. So, while it might not be OOP it is C++ and likely not valid C.

    I'll grab the code tommorow and see what standards gcc4.8 will compiler it under.

  14. Re:Genius! on Update: No Personhood for Chimps Yet · · Score: 1

    You forgot to sign this Summer Glau

    https://xkcd.com/406/

  15. Re:I don't get it on Supreme Court Rules Extending Traffic Stop For Dog Sniff Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    This ruling doesn't seem to help avoid the fishing expedition. If anything it almost encourages additional fishing to justify the time it takes to allow backup units to arrive. I mean it doesn't really help outline what is reasonable it doesn't prevent the search if the dog had already been in the car. All it does is create a very slim frame up where you can't wait for another unit to arrive, because you announced you where done with the ticket.

    I've been pulled over maybe 4 times since I got my license. I've never had a citation be a quick procedure Normally, just writing the ticket can take 15 minutes. I can think of a one speed trap where I was literally told to wait in-line for my ticket. So, I fail to see how this will help as its just to vague. . Someone above is mentioning forfeiture laws over used in drug corridors. Nothing in this ruling will prevent that, I just suggest you make everyone fill out receipts and better explain why you have large sums of cash on you, because this ruling isn't going to protect you.

  16. Re:...Coming Soon on Supreme Court Rules Extending Traffic Stop For Dog Sniff Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    While it seems cost prohibitive, this ruling seems to encourage that mentality.

  17. I don't get it on Supreme Court Rules Extending Traffic Stop For Dog Sniff Unconstitutional · · Score: 1, Interesting

    We do follow a lot of SCOTUS on Slashdot, so I guess the post matches. I'm kind of with the dissent on this if just because the ambiguity of authority this creates. It doesn't look like he was under the influence at the time, but the term "driving out of his lane" does kind of give reasonable cause for drug use, but maybe thats profiling. The article points out that dog searches are legal and its ok to arrest people traffic violations where the search could of been carried out.

    I mean think about it, apparently the problem is the officer finished his job then asked the defendant to wait for a second search. If the officer had started a 15 minute search after placing the defendant in his car to ensure he was safe would that have made this incident ok? Searches are legal, but waiting for backup to conduct a search isn't?

  18. Re:Is the math not towing the groupthink? on Social Science Journal 'Bans' Use of p-values · · Score: 1

    Well, I need to read TFA, but I am going to assume they are provding alternatives? I would hope nothing with out any stat test would pass review

  19. Re:Even more obligatory on Social Science Journal 'Bans' Use of p-values · · Score: 1

    I hate to admit it, but I don't think I truely started to understand pvalues until reading that comic when it was released. I actually started using it as a discussion point in study groups.

  20. Re:Audit trails, dammit? on Allegation: Lottery Official Hacked RNG To Score Winning Ticket · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised by the actual sophistication of the attack. Usb with actuall executable code, I mean granted maybe all it did was replace a text file with the winning results. Time minipulation of camera's. Someone planned this it might of been Ocean's 14.

  21. Re:Systemic and widespread? on The Courage of Bystanders Who Press "Record" · · Score: 1

    The first rule of totality club is the first rule of totality club.

  22. Re:For nerds, ESA = Ecological Society of America on ESA Rebukes EFF's Request To Exempt Abandoned Games From Some DMCA Rules · · Score: 2

    I hate to tell you but this article is clearly a reference to the Ecological Society of America. Why they have an interest in the DMCA and video game hacking is beyond me.

  23. Re: What an Embarrassingly Vapid Article on Focusing On Tech Alone, You Miss How Autonomous Driving Will Change Society · · Score: 1

    This is actually the oppisite of what you propose. I present the argument that on the road now there are near zero unmanned cars. Automated cars will increase this number by some ammount once its legal for a car to operate with out a driver and work as a taxi service as you propose. So Automated cars can only increase the number of empty ones driving around.

    Now if the total number of empty cars + populated cars is currently manned cars we wont know for sometime.

  24. Interesting on Madman: Proximity To Black Hole "Not a Big Deal" · · Score: 1

    I totally missed this movie when it came out. Reading on it I can't believe the company ever let it be produced. Apparently, it was finacially successful, but not worth moving beyond the oneshot.

  25. Re:Okay - stop... just fucking stop. on It's Time To Open Your Eyes · · Score: 1

    For a moment there I was having a hard time figuring out why you were embarrased to be from India. But then I saw the extra two letters, well don't fret this proof of your residence will only be archived on slashdot forever.