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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-- for example?

"Malum est consilium, quod mutari non potest" you might say.

I worked for a while with a software engineer who insisted in encoding the value of the macro within the name: #define MAGIC_16 16 his rationale was that you had to go through all …

Are you sure you don't need reading glasses? I find reading from screens (such as an iPad) physically much easier than reading from paper. Getting dedicated reading glasses made a …

Start with "Safer C" by Les Hatton. It is getting on a bit now but still a worthwhile read.

I miss the days when Cambridge (UK) was Heffers, Heffers, and Heffers. The main Heffers on Trinity Street, children's Heffers, Art and Architecture Heffers, Heffers Maps, Heffers A…

>Embedded systems engineers command great salaries This isn't something I've noticed. In the UK at least Embedded tends to be a sensible career, with reasonable work/life-balance. …

Did you see the sumToX() example in the paper?

I also have a Lamy 2000 and a Vanishing Point. For a long time I didn't use the Lamy very much as it was scratchy compared to the VP. At some point I decided to stick with it and n…

Like erb ( https://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.6.2/libdoc/erb/rdoc/ERB.html ).

For a while David Davis seemed to think the UK could hold on to the EMA. See https://pharmaphorum.com/news/uk-keeping-european-medicines-... for example.

I agree entirely about Lisp in Small Pieces. It's one of those books that I've attempted to read many times and never get more than half way through.

'The people I hung out with while there were bitter towards the required TV licenses and "religion" for NHS in public discourse. Curious how widespread this attitude is.' Not very …

Amantys (www.amantys.com) - Cambridge, UK http://www.amantys.com/careers/junior-software-developer Looking for an embedded software developer with interest on working down to the m…