I’ve been using C and C++ for over twenty years now, and I’m very fluent in both of them. C++ has been my preferred language for pretty much any programming task for most of that time, and I haven’t seen any point to learning other programming languages because some of them are at best equivalent …
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Un-freakin’-believable.
JoelOnSoftware (an ex-Microsoft employee) posted an absolutely scathing commentary on Vista and Office 2007’s packaging yesterday, along with a devastating comment on Vista itself: I’ve been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using it as their primary operating system — it simply …
“Firefox can block ads, so we’re blocking anyone using Firefox from seeing our pages at all.” Priceless. Nevermind the fact that the User Agent Switcher extension means that Firefox can appear to be any other browser, easily bypassing this kind of block. I can understand why people would want to do this, but they’ll need …
The explanation has been posted: it was all Microsoft’s fault. 😉 This will not affect my use of Skype. It’s a great money-saving tool, but I always have a backup. [Correction, it wasn’t Microsoft’s fault, they just caused it. 😉 ]
Greenspun’s Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. — Philip Greenspun Including Common Lisp. — Robert Morris I’ve been working on a top-secret, ultra-hush-hush project for my company for several years now — so secret that I can …
Those of you who know GoddessJ and myself personally, also know that GoddessJ has a hereditary eye problem. That’s why I’m so interested in vision technology stories, like this one. Of course, I’d be interested in this one regardless, because this kind of enhancement technology is also used in many science fiction stories, and even …
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Yet more memory tricks, courtesy of your local mad scientist. Now if only they could help me remember things, as well as forgetting them… 😉
From the Lifehacker site, a virtual smörgÃ¥sbord of interesting how-to guides: how to turn a flashlight into a hand-held burning laser (and excellent match-replacement); how to get rid of sweat stains; how to pick locks; how to use a wristwatch as a compass; and how to disable the annoying Windows “restart now or we’ll do …
Maybe I just don’t see the humor, but this just strikes me as sad. This guy is obviously a few sandwiches short of a picnic.