Daily Olds?
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A sharp-eyed reader would notice that very few of the items in the Daily Insider newsletter are particularly newsy. I've intentionally shied away from an approach of regurgitating the day's tech news in the newsletter. If that's what you want, go check TechMeme or Mashable or CNET... they do a way better job at it than I ever could. Do you really want to know who's got VC funding, or that Justin Bieber is trending on Twitter? Instead, my focus is on looking for items that will be of interest specifically to programmers, with slight bias toward programmers working on the Microsoft stack. (Though not exclusively, because I think y'all need to be well-rounded in your skills and environments.) Very little of this is news in any sense. If it's news because you don't know much about NoSQL, then it's equally possible someone else doesn't know much about C -- particularly if they started coding in the last decade. We're not all grizzled veterans of COBOL and TurboPacal. In fact, my real goal in all of this is to do at least one of the following: A.) Make you laugh 2.) Help you learn something new III.) Spark a conversation I think this ancient article on C did all three. The feedback *is* always appreciated. Really. I'd like to see more of it, because I really do listen to the good and the bad and make changes accordingly (usually... well, sometimes). But let's dispel the notion that the daily news is actually news in the traditional sense.
Ok, gotcha. Fair enough. And yes, while I don't follow each and every link on CP Insider Daily News, those I do follow often achieve at least 2/3 of your stated goals. And TBH I don't care all that much how old that site actually is. As I said, it just made me wonder. Oh, and I did notice that link to the FORTRAN article in the latest 'News'. Made me :laugh: before even clicking on it :thumbsup:
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Ok, gotcha. Fair enough. And yes, while I don't follow each and every link on CP Insider Daily News, those I do follow often achieve at least 2/3 of your stated goals. And TBH I don't care all that much how old that site actually is. As I said, it just made me wonder. Oh, and I did notice that link to the FORTRAN article in the latest 'News'. Made me :laugh: before even clicking on it :thumbsup:
Excellent. My work here is done. Until tomorrow's headlines... :-)
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Interesting, I really didn't know that. Thanks for the info. Regarding the bigger systems, I know exactly what you mean, had been designing embedded systems with a considerably huge amount of 16MB flash, although only about a third of that was actually available for the app. Still, we did some pretty sophisticated programming (at least when considering this was an embedded system), including smart pointer mechanics, pool allocation, lots of inheritance and polymorphism, etc.. Each actuator and each sensor of the machine had it's counterpart in the software. The only thing we had to look out for is keep down the use of templates, which tend to blow up the binary. Now, I have no idea how much overhead all of this introduced for using C++ instead of C, but the high level of abstraction and object orientation based on physical parts of the machine allowed us to adapt our software to a new machine prototype within just one day! I don't think I've ever done a project that allowed this high degree of reuse. And that was only possible because OO mechanisms fit so well with software that is so closely linked with physical hardware.