tordek

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by tordek 12y ago
> I would like to know the reasoning behind this. It sure seems clever but what is the advantage that this provides? Since C provides very little metaprogramming capabilities, this was the only way to obtain what I wanted: Most (if not a
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by tordek 12y ago
Additionally, how would you signal "End of List"?
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by tordek 12y ago
Would you mind expanding a bit on the usage of Range? The simplest case involving items is clearly `items=10-20`, but that has its own set of problems (your set must be ordered; I assume you'd use the key you're sorting over as yo
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by tordek 15y ago
Of note: There are several of us in #mongrel2 on Freenode, and there are periodic patches from us :).
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by tordek 15y ago
But that makes no sense, it is whitespace, and it has semantic significance (hence being significant). Whitespace was not significant in older versions of Fortran, and that allowed you to write DO30I=10,100 which was interpreted as
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by tordek 15y ago
In your last example, `.find('.more_stuff')` works on the value returned from `.addClass('other')` (or so it'd seem), so it behaves differently.
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by tordek 16y ago
As said elsewhere: "Declaration follows use". int *foo; means "foo is a pointer to int". But that's explained different from how it's written. More clearly, you can say that " foo" is an int. Then, doing int *foo; foo = 5
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by tordek 16y ago
How so? +-----------+ | +-+ | | ^ | | char *foo[10][20]; ^ ^ | | | +---+ | +---------------+ * foo is * an array of ten arrays of 20 * pointers to * char
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by tordek 16y ago
> Wait are you saying I have to be content with who I am? When did he ever tell you to stop bettering yourself? > What do you mean I can't expect my employer to validate my passions in life? Because your passions are yours, and your
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by tordek 17y ago
http://netlib.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/pearls/cto.html Millions of numbers in a single megabyte may be interesting.
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by tordek 18y ago
I'm righty and can only raise my right one. But I can also jiggle my left ear...
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by tordek 18y ago
That's the way spanish is pronounced. Radio is "Rradio". I've found amusing how some people who learn english as a second language end up pronouncing spanish as "espanish", since no spanish word begis with s(consonant), except for sh.
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by tordek 18y ago
Argentinian here... and I'd usually extend the o, not the r, so "Estuvimos allí poor un rato."
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by tordek 18y ago
Anywhere I can look up on their definitions?
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by tordek 18y ago
So? Back in the day they were. That's his point. And IE, that people hate so much, came up with them. Would you way wheels aren't innovations because they've been around for a long time?
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by tordek 18y ago
It annoyed me that he said "feel free to correct my math," yet there is no way to contact him. There aren't 504 ways (P(9,3)), but only 84 (C(9,3)), since order is irrelevant.