BudVVeezer

A quick search for ARMv8 and AArch64 in the LLVM commits list shows that a considerable amount of work has been happening on this front. In fact: http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-...

I would have a hard time saying there's "chilling effects" happening.

I am entirely uncertain of why this was downmodded. The _s functions are part of the C standard (Annex K), and truly are better replacements for their counterparts. It's unfortunate that the glibc maintainers have shown so little interest in implementing this (optional, to be fair) part of the standard.

sizeof(char) is implementation defined; see limits.h for more information on the probable size of char for your target. If the sizeof(char) is 1, the division will be optimized away, so there's no loss by keeping the code portable.

Was anyone else a bit put-off that it was the patrol car that killed the cyclist, and not the person driving the patrol car (as it would have been reported had it not involved an officer)?

Microsoft led the standardization process for the Annex K functions.

Those aren't "Microsoft functions"; they're C's optional Annex K functions which Microsoft happens to mostly implement (though in true MS fashion, they did manage to get a few wrong before the standard was finalized).

Every TSA checkpoint I've ever been through has had an armed police officer there. So what's this "call for armed guards"?

That can't happen on the internet; it's against the law.

That depends on what the rational person can afford. When they're thinking "500$ means I don't make my house or car payment this month and I'm not certain how I'll feed my family", they may say "I'll take the 1$ bag", consequences-be-damned. And they're still a "rational" person.

In honor of this news: developers, developers, developers, developers...in techno.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6ZarKIKpSA

Not directly, but who do you think runs the jails and lobbies for stricter laws to fill those jails?

Better still if it also threw in semi-random "safe" search terms to further confuse the issues.

That must explain my bank's insistence on not having passwords greater than 9 characters, without spaces or most "special characters." They take security seriously!

Don't worry, I don't take your tone personally. :-)

I usually only go for half a day (4ish hours), and I wouldn't be surprised if I pay less than the usual turnover rate over time. However, given my locale, it's not unusual for me to be one of the only people in the coffee shop for the majority of my time there. So I'm not really a rival for other patrons too often.

I guess the take-away point here is that blanket statements about laptop hobos is kind of a sensationalist sentiment. I am sure there are folks negatively effecting some coffee shops, and I am equally sure there are some positively effecting others.

Perhaps in busier cities, but since I live in central Maine, that's not necessarily the case.

As a telecommuter, I recognize when I go work from a coffee shop that I am using their resources. But that's why I 1) buy stuff while I'm there, and 2) tell all of my friends what a great place it is.

If one of my local shops pulled this on me, they'd not only lose my business, but that of friends when I tell them about the experience. Perhaps this isn't a big concern (I'm not particularly important, after all). But if it happens with enough customers, it could be bad for business in a more broad sense.

Xojo (formerly REALbasic) fits the bill: http://xojo.com/

Replace int with long long on a 32-bit system, and the stance remains the same. But you are right, as written it is thread safe in the given context. :-)

It could rely on another variable for computation, and that other variable could be accessed outside of the function. Eg)

class c { int m1; public: void set_m1( int i ) { m1 = i; } int calc( int i ) const { return m1 * 10; } };

calc is properly const, but it's not threadsafe.

Dynamic arrays will be in C++14.

http://isocpp.org/blog/2013/04/trip-report-iso-c-spring-2013...

That being said, you are correct that it would be good to see warnings in something other than just -pedantic for that.

Except that can break compiling projects as well due to /WX (treating warnings as errors).

It would be really interesting to view some statistics as to how accurate the test is across participants. It guessed I was 29 when I am 34, which seems relatively close -- but how do I compare to others in terms of error?

#llvm on OFTC

You should try coming into Bangor for the Maine Hacker Club meetings; we host them weekly and it's a great way to network in the middle of nowhere. ;-)

http://www.hackmaine.org/

I am reminded of Penny Arcade, oddly enough.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19

That's more what I was going for -- a nice, short URL I can send to someone.

Is there a way for me to get a link to a pre-configured JFDIN command? This would allow me to make a work item for entrenched coworkers and send it to them. ;-)

Am I the only one who read that and thought "perhaps you should have paid attention to what you were doing?" I know it sounds dickish, but seriously, why not own up to the fact that not every user interface is tailored to you, and that sometimes you are fallible?

I'm a bit amazed by how efficient my wood boiler is -- I can run it for several hours off a few logs, while maintaining about 175 degrees in the boiler. On a good day, I end up burning less than a log an hour to heat my entire house, including the water heater.

Same is true in parts of the US as well. Here in Maine, it costs 3.80$/gal for heating oil, but you can get wood for 100$/cord. This means I can heat my house with oil to the tune of about 3k/year, or wood for 400/year.