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Too slow for me on Chrome.

Baldur's Gate 2 is still my all-time favorite. It is more than just a game. One of humanities greatest works of art.

"...we'd like to extend an invitation to you to apply again whenever you feel more capable". Sounds like it was written by a pompous egg head on a power trip.

I play yahoo's online chess once and a while.

Wages cannot be too low. It's simple supply and demand. Too many workers, with little demand for their work. Evidenced by the fact people are willing to work at wal-mart wages. I w…

I'd suggest skipping Clojure altogether. The JVM cannot support tail call optimizations. Use of recursion will be muffled a bit. Not very lispy. Newer is not always better. Try rac…

I was part of a haunted house. Kids went through the backyard and garage. With really good candy at the end (snickers bars, kit kat, etc) My girlfriend's brother was a clown with a…

I don't have a tombstone worthy project. But my favorite personal project is a database comparison tool. It is basically a "diff" on databases. Everything from the schema, to store…

"the tools I use recognize that structure" Yes. I would describe it as parsing the content into a tree. Interaction's with content can then be legal operations on the tree, instead…

Absolutely. Generics are too powerful an abstraction to do without in 2013. I can't imagine coding without them. Go is a no-go for me. Everyone talks down on C++ but it's one of th…

Sure there are health issues from inhaling smoke. But a strategy of suppression and control rarely creates a better world. Instead it empowers criminal organizations who use violen…

I use C++. For user applications, not "systems". -Momentum. I am already familiar with it. -RAII and smart pointers -Generics -Best supported for cross-platform mobile phone use.

They are treating people like cattle. Herd em up, brand em, and profit.

It's a community of hackers. But topics are not restricted by category.

I thought I was the only one using C# and Postgres. Secret's out!

Because it makes the troll more elegant and pure.

"Us founders are blitzing 80+ hours a week." This is where most people with a family would stop reading. "If you're young and energetic, come join us." That is border-line ageist. …

That wording doesn't sound very attractive. Down right scary actually.

I'd buy a house for myself. I'd buy 1 low-end rental property (dip my toes in with 1 before finding out I don't like land-lording). With that much cash, inflation becomes a big iss…

Well you do have to ban raw pointers. Heap allocation is safe with smart pointers.

New? I'm still going headfirst down the Emacs rabbit hole. You can never escape wonderland.

It's not strange if you consider there were no female programmers on the team. Demographics is a different point all together.

Pasting a response: Blocks are an improvement, but not the same as RAII. A block is literally converted to a try-finally by the compiler. It is the same thing with a cleaner syntax…

Reality is there are many Java code bases which handle resources like this. For java 6 and below this not bad code; it is how you are forced to deal with resources. Even with the n…

I look at Java code and it horrifies me. Java is great if your resource is memory. It turns into a horrible unsafe mess the moment your resources are not memory. //C++ RAII goodnes…