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wizardofozon Are science fiction/fantasy writers insane?

Excellent article. I like how the author's head turned to Star Wars at the face of death lol. I wonder if there's any similar kind of deviant thinking among hackers.

wizardofozon Signs that you're a bad programmer

I'm getting the same message, could someone post a mirror? Or if any one still has the page open, please save it and post it elsewhere.

wizardofozon If-else vs switch – Which is better?

Code that test the finite switch:

3. for (int i = 0; i < iteration; i++) {

4. testSwitchFinite(i);

5. }

Once i > 5, testSwitchFinite will always skip to default. This function doesn't even test the switch properly.

Something like testSwitchFinite(i%5+1) would have made more sense (for the finite switch and if-else.)

wizardofozon Hacker News clone for Singapore

It would be awesome if you or someone could make a similar version for New York City.

wizardofozon "US is empire of the devil": A visit to North Korea

Very interesting story.

wizardofozon Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule

What about an online meeting? On an IRC channel? Can a hacker working on a project multitask and attend the IRC meeting while simultaneously coding (perhaps he has 2 monitors, he codes on the larger one and IRCs on the other one) ?

I'd like to hear some thoughts on this.

wizardofozon Dijkstra interview (subtitled, 24 mins, 300MB) [mpg video]

On Google Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6873628658308030363...

wizardofozon The abolition of work

I believe work is the source of happiness. Happiness comes to you when you see the fruits of your work.

I remember feeling really happy after finishing up a program that I had been working on for a long time. Just seeing it work so perfectly gave me an incredible sense of satisfaction. It was far better from the satisfaction/pleasure I got from doing things like watching TV/movies, going on dates, eating at nice restaurants, etc.

Developing the program was definitely not play either. It involved things (like fixing bugs, coming up with algorithms) for which I had to expend a considerable amount of intellectual energy. It was work, but it was work worth working on.

wizardofozon C++ - The Forgotten Trojan Horse

Well I wrote (a command-line) program that was about 2000 lines long in C++ and during most of the development period I used g++ with the -ansi & -pedantic options.

Later I was able to get my program to compile on Visual C++ with absolutely no modification.

wizardofozon C++ - The Forgotten Trojan Horse

C++ has a high price in terms of binary incompatibility.

I find this statement to be rather untrue because I think most modern compilers when forced to be ISO/ANSI compliant (i do: g++ -ansi -pedantic) ensure your code is portable across systems.