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assertion failure
Assertion failed: !rants->empty() in file shyamjournaltopicgeneration.cc, line 1410
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The answer to the previous C++ question
The reason that's wrong is because you can't initialize a parent's member variable in the subclass. This is due to what initializer lists really mean. Without initializers list, when an object is constructed, all it's member variables are allocated and constructed with the default constructor. When you use initializer list, you are tell the ( Read more... ) -
Riddle me this Batman
Tell me what is wrong with the following bit of C++ and why it is so:
class A {
protected:
int foo;
};
class B : public A {
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Al Gore
Al Gore came and gave a talk about climate change at Google last friday and I must say that he is much different than I thought. First of all he's not boring! The talk was quite engaging, and he seems to have facts and figures that support his stance and refute some of those that the other side has. But then again, statistics lie. That is all ( Read more... ) -
Pictures
Some people were complaining that my blog doesn't have enough pictures and then I realized that all those ladies back east never get a chance to see my smiling handsome face, so I decided to give them solace of at least looking from afar. Enjoy. The pictures are from the previous weekend when I went into SF, for the second time since I came here ( Read more... ) -
The Wizardly Shyam asks
Have you felt that you can answer questions better than the Wizardly Shyam ( Read more... ) -
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I am really beginning to hate pthreads and linking. So apparently there is a bug in either the google code or the pthread library, or the linker such that if pthread are linked in dynamically, sometimes the pthread manager thread dies, causing all of the children thread to go defunct. Ok I try to link my binary statically, but this fails because ( Read more... ) -
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Wasn't meOn a different note, it seems that my changes actually have a noticable improvement on our internal evals. Would users really notice? Who knows. Plus babysitting has been taking less and less of my time ( Read more... ) -
Ga Tech education
I think that my GT CS education was not quite adequate. How do I go four years pretty much loaded up on CS classes and have no fucking clue what a select loop? Actually I am pretty sure it's cause I took very few networking classes and the basic networking class was too simplistic. Or maybe I feel particularly clueless on this subject because I ( Read more... ) -
Shyam's weekly musing
Finally launched! W007. This still doesn't make my life any easier. I am sure to find an infinite number of bugs in my system. To be honest, I am still not completely happy with the system when it launched, but in the end most users won't know the difference anyhow. Crap, I'm sounding like a crappy software apologist now don't I? Anyway at ( Read more... )