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by Blunt 14y ago
ya know, I just don't agree with anyone who posts here and uses the word "customer." Yea, Bob was a customer but he is also a human being. Less we forget this and remember we are working with other people then you don't need to worry abou
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by Blunt 14y ago
I think this is a non sequitur. (IMO) the stuff about "people are colorblind until society teaches them otherwise" is ridiculous, so you put these kids in an environment with no yellow children? Of course they are going to see yellow childr
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by Blunt 14y ago
I'm against this. They are trying to impose rules (threading concepts) into the C++ language where it ought not to be. Threads are platform specific (ARM, Intel) albeit with the same idea but underpinnings are different. They are arguing
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by Blunt 14y ago
I second your Superbly put. I cannot upvote this enough too. I've been doing C and C++ for over 17 years from embedded up to CRUD accounting type apps.... Spot on my friend, spot on!
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by Blunt 14y ago
I guess this means every code compiler is in jeopardy now too.
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by Blunt 14y ago
really an optical illusion? I heard two different flows of water splashing in the bucket which I would not expect if it was just an optical trick.
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by Blunt 14y ago
I'd pledge the full $200K if they would take on C++ immediately. I am so sick and tired of IDEs that suck at delivering solid C++ coding environment. The best tool I've found for the job, to date, is Source Insight.
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by Blunt 14y ago
"My theory is that only idiots get caught" No, only idiots do this to begin with.
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by Blunt 14y ago
The real hero of the story is the guy or organized the surprise flash mob! Most people would say that was cute and move on, but this guy stopped and took an interest in this kid and in making him feel good about himself. We need more peop
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by Blunt 15y ago
oh no it's not worth discussing. The discussion is pointless including Yegge's diatribe. Great software is written by great software engineers. (period) end of story. And there is no amount of management that can be thrown in that can ma
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by Blunt 15y ago
you don't pick the language. The language picks you!
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by Blunt 15y ago
I also concur with #1's finding (small group in a room shut off from the rest). I once worked with 5 other C++ developers all sitting at a couple fold out tables in a one room office to work on a software that was used in a highly competit
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by Blunt 15y ago
Nothing speakers louder than the dollar. Bitching and moaning really does nothing compared to the mighty dollar. Fortunately for me I own a small hosting company with roughly 1500 or so domain names that I will do a bulk transfer too afte
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by Blunt 15y ago
funnier yet are the over weight people standing on the side watching.
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by Blunt 15y ago
agreed. and if you do any sort of embedded work, you must know C and C++. If history is any predictor of the future, chips will continue to get smaller and the "embedded" development world, I think, will proliforate and demand coders to k
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by Blunt 15y ago
completely agree with your reason. I'm a long time Slackware user. I discovered Slackware cicra 1995 or so and throught out the years tried different distributions only to go back to Slackware for its simplicity. Many of the O'reilly boo
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by Blunt 15y ago
150% agree. I have a Pentium III class machine we still use to run our company email. It's been rock solid for so long, there has never been a need to upgrade it. Should the hardware finally fail, we have a few spares kicking around on s
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by Blunt 15y ago
so a $400 iPhone or even a $200 smart phone is a better option than some of the $25 robot kits you can buy that have much more to learn from? not buying it.
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by Blunt 15y ago
First of all, Thank you for the contribution to the OSS community but I just have to ask one question. With all the language wars and what not: 1. This is written in C#, correct? 2. Two full years of your life - do you literally mean 40+
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by Blunt 15y ago
another fucking story about Steve Jobs... RIP in piece Ralph Steinman!
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by Blunt 15y ago
funny is how they bitch about virtualbox and then their own dam site is down at the same time. A bit of the pot calling the kettle black?
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by Blunt 15y ago
seriously, I don't get it. There are tons of off-the-shelf electronic kits that already do this (ARM, PIC, AVAR, etc)... And most of this is just simple logic. Follow a light beam, follow color, bla, bla, bla... Anything really useful, to
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by Blunt 15y ago
I agree with you. In fact, the comments contradict one another. If they did their homework, they would know Jobs holds many design patents. and this one is funny... "Steve Jobs was not a visionary. He put the dots together and saw where th
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by Blunt 15y ago
really, now, what is the point to all this?
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by Blunt 15y ago
Frankly, I find this type of interview insulting. Let's face it. Unless you work with "algorithms" on a dialy basis, I'm willing to bet that most who do not cannot regurgitate a red black tree at the drop of a hat. I work in this field o
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by Blunt 15y ago
I've been on both sides of the fence: 1. as an entrepreneur involved in three start-ups all boot strapped that later attracked VCs and, 2. as an investor. I mostly agree that business plans are just words on paper as one of my fellow inv
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by Blunt 15y ago
".NET would be the way to write Windows applications. Win32 would still exist for backwards compatibility, but it would be frozen and left static." OMG, Another non-technical person trying to write about technology again <sigh>
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by Blunt 15y ago
"they better be damn sure they are getting the right ones." No, see, the problem is you're not in control of FB. They are still a private company and they get to do what ever they want, obviously within the confines of US Laws and, obviou
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by Blunt 15y ago
Teleportation is a misnomer here. Nothing is being teleported or transmitted rather information is being measured in two different locations simultaneously as if it were teleported. What I believe is that information is showing up in two
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by Blunt 16y ago
"Maybe once out of every thousand flights or something." So what gives you or anyone else the right to play God? Have you missed the point about these scanners being a health concern as much as flying is?

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