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So Ruby Central will still be running rubygems.org?

I am implementing a baremetal USB device stack in an embedded application and an having a really, really hard time. The device in question is a decoder for sportive chronometry and…

Depression is killing me. I'm losing this war.

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I don't think the quote suggests that a programmer would mentally design a whole system before writing any code. As programmers, we are used to thinking in problems as steps needin…

This was very informative, thanks!

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I have been playing exclusively on Linux for about 2 years and haven't thought of going back to MS yet

The downside of targeted ads, besides the targeted thing, is the ads thing.

I've used many times for small programs and such, even though I don't use any wine program on a regular basis. However, I do play games on Proton all the time and everything mostly…

I was quite ready to hear some Qt rant

TDD can be valuable but sometimes hindering. I find myself often with an incomplete idea of what I want and, thus, no clear API to start testing. Writing a quick prototype -- somet…

In the programming realm specifically, following a trend can be foolish and, at the same time, as a bigger community usually means better support, documentation and maintenance, cl…

It must have been such a beautiful city...

I just don't use out parameters and avoid bare references altogether, const lvalue and rvalue references express idiomatically whether a parameter is to be copied or moved. Structu…

C++ is just too big nowadays to be fully useful, or even applicable to every environment. Specifically on exceptions, I wish there was a GCC flag to disable exceptions in the sense…