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Stop mocking your system
Yes, mocking has a mostly negative meaning! Only this - to imitate (someone or something) closely - doesn't feel negative.
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Still hatin' on git: now with added Actual Reasons
Monday’s little diatribe on git seemed to stir up quite a bit of strong opinion, both agreeing with me and disagreeing. As is often the case, they two camps seem to be split about 50-50, whi…
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Named Booleans prevent C++ bugs and save you time
Published: 17-02-2023 20:21 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
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I played 1k hands of online poker and built a web app with Cursor AI
In the last two weeks I spent over a dozen hours playing poker, primarily online at pokerstarsmi.com, and live at a local casino. You can view the last 1,000 hands I played here: https://poker.rchase.com I spent at least as much time reviewing my hands with
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Don’t look down on print debugging
Print good, not bad!
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The Turkish İ Problem and Why You Should Care (2012)
Take a look at the following code.
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Test-Driven Development is Stupid
Blog of Agatha Mallett: A post in which I provocatively argue that test-driven design results in worse code. I cite real-world examples, discuss why these failures occur, and suggest alternatives.
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Making Wrong Code Look Wrong (2005)
Way back in September 1983, I started my first real job, working at Oranim, a big bread factory in Israel that made something like 100,000 loaves of bread every night in six giant ovens the size of…
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W64devkit: A Portable C and C++ Development Kit for Windows
As a computer engineer, my job is to use computers to solve important problems. Ideally my solutions will be efficient, and typically that means making the best use of the resources at hand. Quite often these resources are machines running Windows and, despite my misgivings about the platform, there is much to be…
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Obscure C++ Features
This page is a collection of obscure C++ features, gathered over the years as I've explored different corners of the language. C++ is very big and I'm always learning more about it. Hopefully you'll learn something from this page even if you already know C++ pretty well. The features below are roughly ordered from…
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C23 Implications for C Libraries
The upcomming standard C23 has a lot of additions to the C library clause. Most of them are small, some of them are big but optional.
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Tar is an ill-specified format (2015)
http://invisible-island.net/ autoconf/ Copyright © 2014–2015,2016 by Thomas E. Dickey
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Working on It (TextMate)
Over the past two years, posts on this blog have slowed to just a trickle, and a number of TextMate users have asked about TextMate’s status, or publicly worried about its future. This blog post, the first I’ve written here in a long time, is an attempt to assuage those concerns and answer some of the most frequent…
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Sandboxes won't save you from OpenClaw
AI agent misbehavior isn't a sandbox problem—it's a permissions problem.
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A Pythonista's Review of Haskell
A Python developer's honest review of Haskell: the type system, tooling, learning curve, and practical tradeoffs.
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Unsafe Zig Is Safer Than Unsafe Rust
This pattern is pretty common if you are interacting with Operating System APIs . Another example .
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Why I prefer objects over switch statements
A different approach to handle your conditions...
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Summary of C/C++ integer rules
This is my own collection of hard-earned knowledge about how integers work in C/C++, and how to use them carefully and correctly. In this article, I try to strike a balance between brevity (easing the reader) and completeness (providing absolute correctness and extensive detail).
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Are pointers and arrays equivalent in C? (2009)
Longer answer: it depends on what you mean by "equivalent". Pointer arithmetic and array indexing are equivalent. In other aspects, pointers and arrays are different.
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