stephenbennyhat

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by stephenbennyhat 7mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-- for example?
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by stephenbennyhat 2y ago
"Malum est consilium, quod mutari non potest" you might say.
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by stephenbennyhat 4y ago
I worked for a while with a software engineer who insisted in encoding the value of the macro within the name: #define MAGIC_16 16 his rationale was that you had to go through all the uses and consider whether the change would cause
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by stephenbennyhat 4y ago
Are you sure you don't need reading glasses? I find reading from screens (such as an iPad) physically much easier than reading from paper. Getting dedicated reading glasses made a huge difference to this and I found reading from pape
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by stephenbennyhat 4y ago
Start with "Safer C" by Les Hatton. It is getting on a bit now but still a worthwhile read.
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by stephenbennyhat 5y ago
I miss the days when Cambridge (UK) was Heffers, Heffers, and Heffers. The main Heffers on Trinity Street, children's Heffers, Art and Architecture Heffers, Heffers Maps, Heffers Art Goods, Heffers Paperbacks and Videos, Heffers in th
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by stephenbennyhat 5y ago
>Embedded systems engineers command great salaries This isn't something I've noticed. In the UK at least Embedded tends to be a sensible career, with reasonable work/life-balance. But salaries also tend to be in the &quot
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by stephenbennyhat 6y ago
Did you see the sumToX() example in the paper?
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by stephenbennyhat 7y ago
I also have a Lamy 2000 and a Vanishing Point. For a long time I didn't use the Lamy very much as it was scratchy compared to the VP. At some point I decided to stick with it and now it gets used most days for work notes and the like
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by stephenbennyhat 7y ago
Like erb ( https://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.6.2/libdoc/erb/rdoc/ERB.html ).
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by stephenbennyhat 8y ago
For a while David Davis seemed to think the UK could hold on to the EMA. See https://pharmaphorum.com/news/uk-keeping-european-medicines-... for example.
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by stephenbennyhat 8y ago
I agree entirely about Lisp in Small Pieces. It's one of those books that I've attempted to read many times and never get more than half way through.
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by stephenbennyhat 8y ago
'The people I hung out with while there were bitter towards the required TV licenses and "religion" for NHS in public discourse. Curious how widespread this attitude is.' Not very widespread at all in my experience.
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by stephenbennyhat 13y ago
Amantys (www.amantys.com) - Cambridge, UK http://www.amantys.com/careers/junior-software-developer Looking for an embedded software developer with interest on working down to the metal, but also linux kernel, apps, scr