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At Christmas they put white lights on all of the trees except for Pete Conrad's which gets red lights. At his funeral his crew mate Alan Beam said "Pete says that while he was here…

These are the first groups that came to mind. They may not all seem applicable all of the time but I would argue that making your site accessible to as many of these people as poss…

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Are you referring to discussions on their mailing lists? If so, could you link to them?

According to [1] it's W xor X. Interpreting that literally suggests that read only memory is disallowed as well. I'd be surprised if that's actually the case. [1] http://www.openbs…

I think you'd be surprised; this gave my wife some interesting ideas ... for work. For what it's worth she's an academic in computing.

I don't think that's particularly wishful thinking, however, your alternative phrasing could be seen as equally, if not more, leading. When quizzed on the behaviour of a C program …

It's a gotcha for anybody, like me, that expects a branch name to be 'just' a string.

If you're that worried why not cut it short to "We liked your attitude, you seem intelligent, and well-spoken, but we have concerns about your knowledge of ." There can't be any ri…

"I did write a compiler manual in 1958, which by chance was actually used as the textbook for one of my classes in 1959(!)" How many people in the world could claim something simil…

Even worse when it's not even a politician from your own country. I'm looking at you Rand Paul.

It's important to remember that the "year of code" initiative is not related to the new curriculum coming into force in September 2014. My wife is writing a book for the new curric…

Reading about suicide in the news is incomparable to the kind of direct intervention I'm talking about. As john_fushi commented[1], the best thing you can do is talk about it and h…

I'll chime in here, if you don't mind - I'm bipolar[1]. My health often deteriorates for short periods of time, perhaps a day or two, sometimes a week or so. In these situations th…

As somebody who's been there (on both sides) I don't believe that anybody who might act on suicidal ideation would not have already considered suicide as an option. I'd say that, i…

So sorry for your loss EMRo. If I were anywhere nearby I'd have come along to the memorial service but the Atlantic is quite big... I hope the service goes well for you all. Sadly …

Does gcc make any kind of assumptions about signed-overflow? For example, would it eliminate the comparison in this code: int8_t i; /* ... */ i += 1; if (i == 0) { /* ... */ }

I'm enjoying this so far although a couple of things have made me scratch my head in the example code allocating a vector. int create_vector(struct vector *vc, int size) { vc->data…