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Why C is terrible, and Java/C# are Great

I know this wasn't your overall point, but for the record: I hear this a lot, but I have seen no indication that it is really true. As long as you have competent programmers and intelligent library selection, you can develop fairly rapidly in C++, or any other language. With bad programmers in...
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- Post #84
- Jun 13, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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MS vs. Google: What patents are they claiming, exactly?

If any of the big companies were as confident as you about that, it would have been done a long, long time ago. Besides, that sort of suit might be just what would trigger a massive patent war. As for those companies "paying up", I don't see it. So far, HTC is in litigation, and Canonical is...
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- Post #10
- May 7, 2010
- Forum: Open Source
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If You Use Linux Read This! - Maybe You Don't Know

And when do you expect this to start kicking in for all of the distros that have been around for over a decade?
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- Post #63
- May 4, 2010
- Forum: Open Source
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64bit OS - who actually needs it?

I'm well aware of that (I'm actually an Ubuntu user as well), it's just that a frequently have to use Windows for many tasks, and since I've never had anything not work in 64-bit (Linux or Windows), I pretty much do 64-bit everything.
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- Post #27
- May 3, 2010
- Forum: Operating Systems
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64bit OS - who actually needs it?

It's a simple cost vs. benefit problem. All it costs me to run 64-bit Windows/Linux is exactly what it would cost me to run 32-bit Windows/Linux (I have personally never encountered any problems running any of my apps). On the other hand, if I stuck with 32-bit, I wouldn't be able to use a...
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- Post #14
- May 3, 2010
- Forum: Operating Systems
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If You Use Linux Read This! - Maybe You Don't Know

Hear, hear. Installing any operating system is a chore, Linux or Windows. The idea that Windows is any easier to install than Linux is a myth.
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- Post #58
- Apr 25, 2010
- Forum: Open Source
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Programming languages for total newbs.

I don't think anyone was arguing that C++ was a good choice because it's important to learn memory management. I certainly wasn't. Actually, no reasonably well-done software project using C++ should be using manual memory management at all (anymore). Smart Pointers are pretty much ubiquitous...
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- Post #47
- Apr 14, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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Firefox & Opera on Ubuntu 9.10 your thoughts?

That's interesting. I'll have to look into it.
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- Post #19
- Apr 13, 2010
- Forum: Open Source
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Firefox & Opera on Ubuntu 9.10 your thoughts?

Oh really? [root@Ares pdusen]# pacman -Sy chromium :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date archlinuxfr is up to date resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... Targets (1): chromium-4.0.249.43-1...
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- Post #16
- Apr 12, 2010
- Forum: Open Source
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Programming languages for total newbs.

http://www.cppreference.com/wiki/ It's all there.
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- Post #27
- Apr 12, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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Programming languages for total newbs.

I assure you, I read the OP. The fact that you have a different opinion means nothing.
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- Post #24
- Apr 12, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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Programming languages for total newbs.

C++ does all of those things, if you use the STL.
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- Post #19
- Apr 12, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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Programming languages for total newbs.

If he's a beginner programmer, he should be writing beginner programmer programs (Hello World, Counting Change, etc...), none of which requires pointers or classes. As for your claim about error messages: Yes, C/C++ error messages aren't the greatest, but there's nothing terrible at the...
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- Post #15
- Apr 12, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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Anyone psyched for VS 2010?

I'm looking forward to it primarily for all the C++0x features being added (MS is being surprisingly agile about that.)
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- Post #15
- Apr 12, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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Programming languages for total newbs.

I agree that you should start with C++. It is a bit challenging, but programming is _supposed_ to be challenging. In my experience, people who start off with more abstracted languages (BASIC, Java, etc...) tend to have a hard time understanding what is going on under the hood down the road...
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- Post #13
- Apr 12, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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Why does the search feature on Windows 7 suck so badly?

I guess his name is "totalnoob" for a reason.
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- Post #28
- Apr 12, 2010
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Weird thing I noticed with Linux themes

Not readable to YOU. And that's the entire point. It's great that web designers put so much thought into aesthetics, but there are a hundred reasons an end user might want to override those settings--not the least of which is VISUAL DISABILITY. As far as I know, there is no web designer alive...
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- Post #22
- Apr 12, 2010
- Forum: Open Source
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Firefox & Opera on Ubuntu 9.10 your thoughts?

I use Chrome/Chromium, on all platforms and linux distros (With the singular exception of Arch, which uses a ridiculously old version for reasons I cannot fathom.) I used to use Firefox exclusively, but once Chrome came along I was no longer able to justify Firefox's atrocious performance on...
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- Post #12
- Apr 12, 2010
- Forum: Open Source
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Is It Me, or is the Newer Gnome Panel Useless

Toolkits are a funny thing. I vastly prefer Gnome (and GTK, particularly GTKmm) to KDE (and Qt) on Linux, both aesthetically and functionally, but on any other platform GTK just looks terrible, while QT is passable.
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- Post #7
- Apr 12, 2010
- Forum: Open Source
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Coding a smart pointer class

That example doesn't allow for multiple pointers to the same data. But the OP already basically understands how to do that.
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- Post #5
- Dec 24, 2009
- Forum: Programming
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Coding a smart pointer class

Boost.SmartPtr is a header-only library. All you have to do is include the header. Of course, it includes several other boost headers, so if you're specifically looking to only include a single header, then that would be a problem. That's pretty much right for your basic smart pointer. There...
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- Post #3
- Dec 23, 2009
- Forum: Programming
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The GPL is a Joke

What you say is certainly true of the Free Software movement, but the GPL is just a license. Ascribing any "attitude" to it is not reasonable. The GPL is THE license to use if you want your software to be open-source and usable in other open-source products, but not usable in proprietary...
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- Post #26
- Dec 20, 2009
- Forum: Programming
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C vs C++ for Embedded System Programming?

This is only true if you actually use the template with the 4 different datatypes somewhere in your code. Template combinations that aren't used are ignored by the compiler.
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- Post #5
- Nov 27, 2009
- Forum: Programming
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C++ Question

You are correct. As the poster said, he explained it wrong. He originally made it sound like he was doing this: Base** array = new Base*[10]; for (int i=0 ; i < 10 ; ++i) array[i] = new Derived; Which is perfectly valid, since all pointers are the same size regardless of type.
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- Post #13
- Nov 6, 2009
- Forum: Programming
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C++ programming practice question

This does not necessarily follow. I find it's definitely easier to depend on well-written libraries to access platform-specific functions rather than create my own wrappers, particularly in the space of well-written, highly-portable libraries such as boost.
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- Post #12
- Nov 5, 2009
- Forum: Programming
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C++ programming practice question

Also, the shared_ptr library is header-only and doesn't need to be compiled, just included.
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- Post #9
- Nov 5, 2009
- Forum: Programming
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Thinking about going back to school for programming

You have an interesting definition of "every". In this area, at least, most financial institutions have moved on to newer systems. Anyway, if a language is consistently not being used for new projects (which is clearly true of COBOL), then I think that classifies it as dead.
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- Post #13
- Sep 18, 2009
- Forum: Programming
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Which Ubuntu?

That's all you'll see if you walk into some place like Best Buy looking for a computer... Luckily, only the absolute bottom-of-the-barrel consumers do that. Your average consumer buys directly online, from places such as Amazon, or even the manufacturer's website (Dell is a big example).
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- Post #15
- Aug 24, 2009
- Forum: Open Source
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Deciding on a programming language

I'm not really sure what that has to do with what we were talking about. Can you please clarify? Perhaps, but that, too, is a question of the platform, not C++ itself. Besides, the only instance in which that happens would be a switch of platforms or an enormous version jump; for instance...
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- Post #25
- Aug 1, 2009
- Forum: Programming
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Deciding on a programming language

It is true that C is the Linux standard, but not for the reasons you say. Linux got started before C++ really took off (early 90s), so by then the Kernel and a lot of the GNU userland had already been done in C and other languages. You have some strange ideas about C++. The language itself...
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- Post #23
- Jul 31, 2009
- Forum: Programming
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Anyone familear with the Linux TOS?

...Do you even know what Linux is?
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- Post #2
- Nov 25, 2008
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Vista Ultimate x64 Install Problems

Thanks, but I've finally figured it out-- in lieu of a failsafe mode, I manually disabled all of the onboard devices that were not absolutely crucial for installation, and the disc loaded just fine at that point. Thanks guys!
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- Post #12
- Aug 7, 2008
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Vista Ultimate x64 Install Problems

That isn't the problem I'm having... they are having a failure to detect drives from within the Vista installer. My installer doesn't even get that far before rebooting on me.
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- Post #10
- Aug 7, 2008
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Vista Ultimate x64 Install Problems

I am fairly certain this is some sort of bios configuration issue. Does anybody have any experience with this board?
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- Post #8
- Aug 7, 2008
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Vista Ultimate x64 Install Problems

3: The only USB device currently attached is my mouse. 2, 4: I cannot find either of these settings in my BIOS.
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- Post #7
- Aug 7, 2008
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Vista Ultimate x64 Install Problems

Tried again with 2 gb memory, manually set voltage to 1.9 (that is what is printed on the surface of the modules), everything else is stock. Flashed bios from version 0506 to 1004. No change whatsoever. Can anyone else help?
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- Post #5
- Aug 7, 2008
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Vista Ultimate x64 Install Problems

Already tried without one of the RAM modules. I would also say it's not likely to be a temperature issue; I went ahead and tried to install the 32-bit version and the whole thing went off without a hitch. I didn't activate; I'm still intent on installing the 64-bit version on here. Anyone...
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- Post #3
- Aug 7, 2008
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Vista Ultimate x64 Install Problems

So I just purchased a few new pieces of hardware, and my current build is as follows: New Stuff: ASUS P5Q Motherboard Intel Q9300 2.5 ghz 2x2 Corsair XMS2 DDR 800 Old Stuff: ATI Radeon HD2900xt 250 GB Seagate SATA 500 GB Seagate SATA Silverstone DA 750 PSU That seems to be the...
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- Aug 6, 2008
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- Forum: Operating Systems
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doctor billed me!

I love this thread.
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- Post #74
- Aug 6, 2008
- Forum: OT Discussion Club

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