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andrewducker

Interesting Links for 20-07-2013

Jul 20, 2013 12:00

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cairmen July 20 2013, 11:06:11 UTC

Right, I need a trip back to Vancouver...

spacelem July 20 2013, 18:32:38 UTC

I didn't read the whole article about garbage collection in Firefox, but it seems to me that c++11 has pretty much solved that problem with its new pointers: unique_ptr, shared_ptr, and weak_ptr. You don't really need to delete anything these days (except default constructors that you don't want to use).

c++11 is magic.

philmophlegm July 20 2013, 22:59:46 UTC

I can think of a recent literary use of one of those "obsolete" words: "tyromancy" features in 'And Another Thing', Eoin Colfer's continuation of Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's series. And with exactly the meaning given.

andrewducker July 20 2013, 23:01:25 UTC

Clearly he's a fan of obscure old words!