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Ghetto closures in win32 with C++
One of the more annoying gaps in C++ is that there is no sort of "method reference" concept in the language. However, with just a bit of ingenuity and some knowledge of assembly and particular bits of win32, we can dynamically generate a bit of shim code that adds an extra argument into a function call ( Read more... ) -
Depression Driven Development
I realized something today: legacy code is not the exception, it is the rule ( Read more... ) -
uhhhhh stuff
So, some people are doing a thing.
For those who don't know me, my name is Andy, and I write code all day for IMVU. It is pretty cool.
My interests include long walks on the beach, Caribbean food, and exhausting reams of non sequitors written for no reason other than for me to gape in awe at my own vocabulary. I'm kind of like Tycho, except ( Read more... ) -
Crashing
One of the surprising challenges of shipping software to customers is that you really, really want to know when it crashes.
The problem with crashes, of course, is that they take out the application. In order to test these cases, you get to write a giant source file that is full of creative, suicidal functions:
IMVU_DEFINE_CRASH( ( Read more... ) -
Asynchronous programming using imvu.task II: Futures
In my last post, I demonstrated a tiny little application that asynchronously opens a bunch of http connections in order to recursively download all the assets linked to by a page ( Read more... ) -
Introduction to asynchronous programming using imvu.task
It is my distinct pleasure to announce that IMVU has open sourced its asynchronous event library, imvu.task. You can find it on our SourceForge.net pageThe best way to summarize what imvu.task does is to say that it provides an efficient way to do useful work while waiting for things. This may seem a bit simplistic, but if you think about it, any ( Read more... ) -
Python Quiz II Answer
The phenomenon shown in my previous post is also demonstrated with this snippet:
print 2 in [] == FalseBelieve it or not, but this expression is equivalent to
print 2 in [] and [] == FalseThis is the same syntactic mechanism that, believe it or not, allows you to write expressions like "5 > 6 > 7" in Python. -
Python Quiz II
Guess what this program does:
def throw():
raise Exception()
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Go
I started learning Go a few weeks ago. It's hard. And cool. -
Things I Never Learned About Software Engineering Until My First Real Job
I was feeling introspective (it even says so in the "mood' field thingie) and it occurred to me that, with all of my not-for-profit dicking around with computers and subsequent formal computer education, there was a pretty big gap between the set of things that I knew how to do, and the set of things that I never even knew I didn't know. This list ( Read more... )