4/28 When you write assembly code do you have to account for branch
delay slots or is that the assembler's responsibility?
\_ Yes.
\_ You have to put in the delay slots yourself.
1/14 Why is NULL defined to be "0" in C++ instead of "((void *) 0)" like in
C? I have some overloaded functtions where one takes an integer
parameter and the other a pointer parameter. When I call it with
"NULL", the compiler matches it with the integer version instead of
the pointer version which is a problem. Other funny effect is that
sizeof(NULL) is different from sizeof(myPtr). Thanks.
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3/24 How are people transferring large files to one other person these days?
When I need to send some videos to my parents, I upload them to
my SpiderOak account, but they don't have anything like that,
so I'm not sure how to get videos from them. Does DropBox do this
for free?
\_ DropBox +
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2/19 I program a lot by sshing to a Linux cluster. So I'm used to using
Xemacs to code. This works fine from a Linux or Windows workstation,
but sometimes I have to use a Mac. On Mac, the meta is usually
bound to option, but that often doesn't work over ssh for some reason.
This makes using emacs a real pain. Any suggestions on how to fix it?
(Other than "use vi")
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12/18 Happy 25th birthday Perl, and FUCK YOU Larry Wall for fucking up
the computer science formalism that sets back compilers development
back for at least a decade:
http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/18/print-happy-25th-birthday-perl
\_ I tried to learn Perl but was scared away by it. Maybe scripting
lanauages have to be like that in order to work well?
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