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If you do everything in the constructor and the destructor, and in the meantime store a generic instance (or maybe a list of generic instances) somewhere. This can be a quite rare …

one should also note that even if we take a fantasist hypothesis of a major breakthrough demonstrating a loose of strength of 2 bits for AES-128 once a year during ten years, we wo…

(little nitpicking note : there are cases where it can be useful to have a virtual descriptor as the only virtual method of a class)

It could have 0 impact if you don't use it (like a lot of things in C++)

not e.g. with 64-bits, va args and literal 0 (cf FrankBooth example)

Considering how i use computers, most of the time i found it far more convenient to apt-get search and 20s latter install (or the equivalent with the package manager you use) than …

I argue that it's claiming the traversal of linked lists, provided you have a choice between at least two linked lists containing the same set of elements. I argue that this restri…

use your fingers, report 10 millions, times 3.

I could not. There is nothing anti-competitive in distributing something at marginal cost, when expected revenues that fit into a proven and habitual business model are elsewhere.

More on 2.; for the purpose of disclosing knowledge, patents are typically somewhere between 10 and 1000x less useful than a good scientific paper. And the content of the innovativ…

I agree there is a risk of misinterpretation as in "all kind all linked lists have been patented, here is the patent" and for this reason, it maybe would have been better to get an…

At first I thought that too. But within 1 or 2s, I remembered that linked lists have never been limited to single linked lists (except maybe in poor quality courses), multiple link…

Summary by one sentence of the article: "Now, I’m not a software developer, mathematician, or patent expert". That reads in other parts of the text... and even in the poor choice o…

How would you define "social coding"?

IIRC Os X can now resize its own FS, so we can probably let my beautiful (just kidding) HFS code RIP. I won't talk for the other FS code, I have no special knowledge of them. I hav…

That is a little sad because the FS code was once the whole point of Parted. But that does not mean the removal was not justified, I don't know, I've been away from Parted for a ve…

"Revolutions" in the industry are often not the result of a big bang, but more frequently of mere accumulation of little steps. GNU+Linux has not changed anything in the industry w…

It's debatable whether github is more important than git or not. Despite the impression a reader of this site could have that (hype and with an user interface copy pasted from the …

That does not make him irrelevant when he is still here. For example, the direction he "recently" gave to the arm branch (basically ordering everybody to clean up their shit immedi…

who reads CNN Money anyway?

It's possible to prove talent directly in an enormous number of occupations, it's just necessary you are let work for a probation period. Of course there are situations where every…

> Well, now I’m telling you that Xbox applications need to run in kernel mode. wtf?

Once you start calling anything an invention, the next logical step is to allow to patent it. OK it's too late for the US, but we still have some hope in Europe, so unless you are …

It's only impossible to write a program that can be feed with any completely arbitrary program and input and yet determine all the time if it will halt or not. What few people real…