jochance wrote:

Does endian-ness ever matter to you?

No, normally the compiler handles endian for you. The only time you have to check endian is when you're doing network programming, and then you just call a function to convert to network-endian from native endian or vice versa. Shouldn't even be using signed pointers, that's normally handled for you too... it was me messing up the code.

jochance wrote:

So. Much. Stuff.

Yea, C++ got a lot, but if you learn it, you learn 80% of all the other languages. I'd recommend C# as a first language or for regular use, though.

I once had VS debugger say a condition was false when the C++ code continued like it was true. Turned out the VS debugger was using unsigned pointer comparison, whereas the code was using signed pointer comparison. Debugger was technically more correct since signed pointers don't really make sense...

I don't use them, because it's just light pollution. My desktop is tucked away, and even if it wasn't, it's like having your boiler on display. I even found the little plugs for the lights on the desktop case to keep them unplugged. Headphones have a USB to light up, which I don't plug in. I do like having a backlit keyboard, though, all the keys lit up via transparent letters. Does help find keys, particularly good for things that need quick fixes at night. (usually just take a note on my phone, though) I just set my keyboard to plain blue, no fancy RGB or flashing/cycling.

DerekT-P wrote:

Then copy/paste changes back to the source. The downside with that is I have to remember all the elements where I changed any CSS values; to make this manageable I tend to work in very small "increments" updating the source CSS / HTML frequently and reloading the page

You may want to explore the Filesystem tab in Chrome dev tools: it'll save your changes to the original CSS file. Might just be for when you're working on a localhost webserver, but I've found it pretty useful.

Wasn't Einstein the same one to say "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough"?

I'm used to C# so tried

return new client(){username = ""; /* etc */ }

but didn't get told off about it until compile-time ;P

I'll get a static initialised without a explicit ctor if it kills me! header:

struct client {
static client dummy;
std::string username;
int id; // 0+ OK
}

cpp:

// Static definition
client client::dummy = std::move(*[=] { client * c = new client();
c->username = "";
c->id = -1;
return c;
}()
);

I'm not going to use this code but I wonder about it... memory leak?

I wouldn't say it's common sense, since it's not commonly done. It's certainly not a bad idea, or an irrational one. Preppers do take the form of "build a nuclear bunker and stock up years worth of baked beans". Some people make it an obsession, so the term "prepper" tends to be used similarly to "conspiriacy theorist" now. It's a large solar flare that'll kill all the plants. The heavy-duty transformers will blow and need replacing. Multiply that by most the side of the Earth getting overwhelmed and you're not looking at power back anytime soon. I just have a little UPS that'll keep my compy running for an hour. Enough to save docs and check the internet. Not enough space to get a generator or whatnot. I wonder how those living in caravans will cope...

Also, you're using < in one for loop, and <= in the other.

I've reached Twenty x 10. ;P Time well spent. (I have a screenie, but since it's HTML5, that's kinda moot.) The trick is to build 3 towers, on the left/right/center, and move all the joined-together ones on top of the towers. And just play it endlessly whenever you're not sure of some code, with some music like Ayreon's The Human Equation.

Being serious, it may not be possible, if it's caused by updates. Probably done by M$ in the name of 'simplifying things'. You can get programs that custom-make your login screen[^], so that might be an option. Obviously it might be a security risk too, but that's up to your discretion. Give changing Fast User Switching on/off as well. That might have something to do with it. Another hacky workaround is to design an auto-login program that logs both users in on PC bootup, in some way - that will make their icons be specified explicitly as per the lock screen design.

Seems like "ban user" is their default response. ...sounds like quite a few chatroom admins.

Visual PH# Studio 2015 SP3 to be released with three editions: Ultimate, Professional, and Express[ly Irritating].

He apparently "gazed into the garden, scratched, listened to the birds, then wrote 42". I suspect there was a time-traveller wearing a camo suit in his garden with a MindRay 3000.

They worked out you can read faster with one word displayed at a time. So why not apply that to code too? Go through hundreds of lines in a few minutes and hope your instincts are attentive enough.

They know regex. That's a coding language, right?

I thought Vista was a virus. I tried installing XP but Vista insists it's a "better version". Now I just use 3.1 and have no viruses!

Jörgen Andersson wrote:

Enter the banjos. :)

Dramatic banjos. :laugh:

Richard Deeming wrote:

t was decompiled rather than released as open-source

Apparently it's from a PDB file. That essentially contains the original full code. Notwithstanding tools like .NET Reflector can revert C# apps back to original code as well. They'll have to run ngen to hide anything. Presumably the "winner" had more important matters to deal with, so they gave them the PDB so they could debug anything that went wrong.

Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer wrote:

I will go for Whitespace[^]

Whitespace, where you can write two coding languages at once in one badly-indented file.