I don't get it, what is it we're supposed to see? Regardless of browser and script filtering I get only a bunch of plain ugly normal text, all which are linked to som NULL object which doesn't work. Have you reinvented unformatted text? If so, kthnxbye, off to ICanHasCheezeburger.
Mikademus
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RE: Criticize my website
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RE: I still don't get the whole MS bash thing...
@Benn said:
I think the whole which-toolset-is-better thing misses the point, which is more cultural and political. Like many, I started with micros in the early 80's, and every time a machine came out, it was faster and nicer and had better sound...the games improved, then the business software started improving...it was all looking good. When I first heard my Amiga talk in 86, surfed the web in 87, put on a VR helmet in 89 and actually talked *back* to my computer in the early 90's, I fully expected to be living in Neuromancer territory by 2000. Moore's law *demanded* it! And then something happened - I think it was probably Windows 3.1 . MS gained dominance, and like all companies beyond a certain size, simply became a money-making dinosaur re-releasing the same product over-and-over with simple marketing tweaks. Hardware became simply a faster platform to run MS Office. I, for one, resent that. I want my hover car, and I want my virtual world.
Linux, on the other hand, represents the new frontier for all those 80's bedroom micro hackers. It appeals politically to those with a general mistrust of large corporations (and capitalism as a whole) and is a great way of "sticking it to the man". Unfortunately, it suffers from having to play catch-up to the established MS culture, which means that as a desktop replacement, it can never win.
As it happens though, I think the battle has already been lost to the Triumvirate of the Internet, Mobiles, and Games Consoles (the first of which is already dominated by Linux, and the 2nd and 3rd will be real soon now, I reckon). When you've got a dedicated 3D processor at home that only cost $100, and has a way cooler interface than the 2D mouse'n'keyboard (personally, I think the Wii controller is the first bit of real innovation we've seen in 15 years), and when it can plug into the biggest computer n the world and run any online app you like - and you can do the same on the train with your little talky-gadget that plays tunes and takes photos and videos and scans and everything you need - then I think the fight for the desktop will be seen historically as a minor skirmish.
Benn, that was simply one of the single best posts I've ever read. I agree with you whole-heartedly, and being the narcissistic bastard I am, I'll turn homosexual for your sake and have your children, it was that that good! Well, ok, that was perhaps a bit too much, but I'll buy you a few pints any time!
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RE: Upgrade Forms - Still the Real WTF?
Reply to topic: yes.
Just mentioning one thing. What bloody use is the "last post" link?! I don't want to go to the last post made, I want to go to the first one I haven't read. As warts go this is #FF0000 red, shining and playing Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries". If the designers of the system haven't understood this ultimately fundamental single fact about forums and user interfaces after so many iterations they arent't to be trusted with a rotting cheese shaving. And it takes stubborness way beyond the sane level to stick with the system.
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RE: I still don't get the whole MS bash thing...
@Lingerance said:
They stopped innovating after win95. ... Installing VS a while back was a pain, apparently to get a C++ program to compile in VS C++ one has to download that _and_ an iso image that happens to let you compile C++ programs. [/rant]
Well, I'm as much an avd MS-hater as the next guy, but in all honesty, VStudio is the best program they've ever made. It is simply a wonderful IDE. However, the VC leaves quite a bit to be desired...
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RE: Change = Complaints + Complaints + Complaints?
Well, simply put, the site design is not very good. It wasn/t good before, either, though. Still, if you actually employed a graphician for the current style, then it is a double failure. The angled captions look like poor 1990's Techno wannabie a la WipeOut: the yellowish pea-green colour is nausiating; community server is still TRWTF (why, in the name of all crying puppies worldwide do you persist with the abortion of a community system?!), and my spelling plugin doesn't work under it, so I can not be held accountable for any spelling mistakes.
Still, the letters can be read, and since sometimes the articles are vaguely entertaining. the site "works". I only wish the forum was still worth anything.
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RE: Computer books
Mikademus: ~you're not contributing constructively~
@asuffield said:
Destruction is fundamentally necessary, ask any building contractor what they do first on a new site.
Thanks! That actually explains why you act as you do. And why so many people loath academics (because you and your ilk gives us a bad name).
Anyway, lightening up the mood with a vaguely computer-related lolkitten:
[img]http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/funny-pictures-pirate-cat.jpg[/img]
We now return you to your regularly scheduled discussion interspersed by condescending grumpiness.
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RE: Computer books
@asuffield said:
The flaw in this idea is that the authors of books are no more reliable than any other random schmuck. Books are frequently the source of a culture of stupidity, because when something stupid is written down, people take it more seriously.
Hi Assiffield! Glad to see you're still going about your usual business of contributing constructive input! Kthxbye
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RE: C++ - what's the default method of opening a file passed to main via *argv[]?
@ammoQ said:
@bstorer said:
And then there's this brilliant quote: "f you need an array in C++, you can use a C-like T arr[] or a C++ std::vector<T> or any of the array classes written
before std::vector appeared in the C++ standard." Multiple solutions to a problem = flaw.Having multiple solutions to a problem is generally undesirable, because most likely every programmer (or team) will pick one and use it for all instances of the problem, thus forgetting that the other solution even exists.
In the choice is between paradigm agnosticism and expressive consistency C++ chose the avenue that allows it to address the most problems. Though this may lead to competition of styles, the alternative --not being able to naturally or efficiently encompass a particular problem-- is worse.
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RE: C++ - what's the default method of opening a file passed to main via *argv[]?
@Lingerance said:
You're actually using the C library functions for IO _in_ C++. C++ code will happily use the C library.
Yes, what is your point? I'm not saying that the C++ libraries (or your code for that matter) are not free to use the C libraries. When they do they (hopefully) do so in a exception-safe way.
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RE: C++ - what's the default method of opening a file passed to main via *argv[]?
@arty said:
@Mikademus said:
@Lingerance said:
I prefer using *printf and *scanf because ... There isn't any disadvantage to using them .
Yes, there is. Unless you've encapsulated their use inside manager classes, and written a correctly deallocating constructor, your code isn't exception safe when using fopen/flose etc (I'm not certain try/catch will handle all fail conditions that class deconstruction does). It is like using naked pointers isn't exception safe, using low-level resource-acquiring calls may cause your program to leak resources (memory, OS file handles, whathaveyou).Everyone learning C++ should read the C++ FQA lite from cover to cover.
I take it you're criticising that resources aren't deallocated automatically? Well, when using fopen etc you're using C, not C++. If you program C++, statically allocated objects will be managed for you and deallocated by the objects' destructors when going out of scope. This is more efficient, depending on your needs, than automatic collection. So you're not complaining about C++ here, you're actually talking about C.