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Scott meyeres is one of the foremost experts on C++. He recently had this to say regarding bug reports on the code in his books. I retired from active involvement in C++ at the end of 2015, and in the ensuing two and a half years, I’ve forgotten enough
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I’m in a period of Japanophilia. Recently the Austin Film Society showed all six installments of Lone Wolf and Cub, which were excellent. This weekend they’re playing Lady Snowblood. I have never seen it but am very excited. Apparently it’s an inspiration for Kill Bill, but I
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We recently cancelled our cable TV. We’re an Apple household, so we get most our stuff from AppleTV apps now. In addition to the usual Netflix and Amazon, here’s what we use. iTunes: We purchased episodes of The Expanse (which airs on SyFy) on iTunes. We’ll have
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As everyone knows, the number one reason for poor craftsmanship is poor tools. To that end, I am addressing my poor blogging output by changing the blogging platform. I have moved from Wordpress to Jekyll. Joking aside, WordPress is powerful in lots of ways, but it does require care and
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If you’ve ever tried to research web hosting, you’re probably noticed the disreputable nature of hosting reviews. Most review sites are riddled with affiliate links, which calls into question all the reviews and ratings. When I was shopping for managed WordPress hosting, one site I’ve come to
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Jia Tolentino at the New Yorker laments that blogging is over: Blogging, that much-maligned pastime, is gradually but surely disappearing from the Internet, and so, consequently, is a lot of online freedom and fun. As evidence she cites the closing of * Grantland * Toast * Gawker * Gothamist * Awl & Hairpin Those are
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Michael Tsai on Swift: I like Swift. But, having programmed in probably more than a dozen languages, I would not classify Swift as easy to learn. It’s at the end with the harder ones like C++. People see the var declarations and think, “Javascript!”. Type inference hides a lot
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That Sinking Feeling – Talking Points Memo: I suspect [the trump team] now fear[s] (no doubt rightly) that Trump officials lied during their interviews with the Special Counsel’s office and the investigators already had the emails that proved they were lying. That’s a real sinking feeling for everyone
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Paul Krugman says bitcoin is a bubble - Business Insider: There's been no demonstration yet that it actually is helpful in conducting economic transactions. There's no anchor for its value. You know, unlike pieces of paper with dead presidents on them, those are anchored by the
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I study liars. I’ve never seen one like President Trump. In research beginning in the mid-1990s, when I was a professor at the University of Virginia, my colleagues and I asked 77 college students and 70 people from the nearby community to keep diaries of all the lies they
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Where is Amazon’s Prime Video app for Apple TV? - The Verge (Via Daring Fireball.)
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A quick test to post from MarsEdit