Made it to pharmacy. Made it to nail salon after very annoying wait for wrong bus due to misinformation. Stopped at Appalachian Bluegrass for a nut blank because the slot for the bottom string on the mandolin I was practicing on while waiting for buses crumbled. (Blank is way bigger than I need; gonna have to cut it lengthwiseAnybody local have ( Read more... )

The difference between learning a language by reading a tutorial, and impatiently diving into it by just looking up a couple of command descriptions in a reference and glancing at some machine-generated code:

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"There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses." -- Bjarne Stroustrup

[And a happy Beltane to my friends celebrating it!]

Enough sleep makes it easier to see where a dollar-sign was missing.

Okay, I cannot figure out how to make foreach() iterate over an array of objects, assigning keys to a loop variable, in PHP4. Either what I'm trying to do constitutes abuse of the foreach() control structure, or I need more sleep. (I'm hoping it's the second of those two possibilities and will make more sense by this afternoon.)

Wheee!

I'm trying to use Visual C++ for the first time. I want to test something under Windows. Usually if I want to write anything in C I just do it all under Linux/Unix. (Hmm. I wonder whether any of the distros in the house include a Windows cross-compiler...)

So far, I've decided that this user interface is designed for folks who have really huge ( Read more... )

I'm looking through old code -- I wrote some of it more than ten years ago -- and as a result I have an earworm. A song I'm sure several of you know.
Little boxes
In the listing
Little boxes
Made of asterisks...

But I'm feeling just a wee bit smug about being able to look ( Read more... )

Are any of my friends using Guido Gonzato's 'abcpp' (ABC preprocessor) program? If so, would any of you find it handy to be able to define an actual substitution macro on the command line? (That is, "-name=value" which would be equivalent to "#define name value" in the input file, rather than just "-name" by itself which ( Read more... )

Got my head quite thoroughly stuck in a computer problem/project and lost track of a) time, b) my own fatigue level, c) the temperature, d) my own hunger. Yah, the short translation is that I was "in hack mode", but the way my body is, that's gonna cost me later. And there was some place else I'd really intended to be today. Oops.

But I've got ( Read more... )

Headache, bad; also lack-of-sleep issues; so I'm not at Balticon ( Read more... )