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Hungarian notation is morally bankrupt. A variable's type belongs in its declaration and definition, not in its name. "Of dubious practical advantage even for type-unsafe calls in C, or in environments when nearly everything is a type-challenged int or void* handle," she shook her head sadly...

What the heck are you doing? To format anything other than your system and boot drives, use Disk Management. To nuke Windows XP itself, use XP Setup.

Shouldn't ./ access the current directory? A bare / should access the root directory.

I should probably mention that while the 1998 and 2003 C++ Standards cost $18 each in PDF form, you can now access the Working Paper (which will become the next C++ Standard) freely: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2004/n1638.pdf The site is slow, but it will load...

[Nemezer] > I say you use a Hashtable. They are cool > It's also the most efficient way of doing it. This is incorrect. The most efficient data structure for determining whether a given word is in a dictionary is a trie. Querying whether a word of length M is in the dictionary then...

C is a crummy language. Don't use it if you're not required to use it. Data structures are a hojillion times more fun in C++. Not only does C++ provide data abstraction support like constructors, destructors, and access control (public/private), it provides templates, so your data structures...

It clutters up the page for the user. By the Wrath Of Khan Principle, I win.

What's funny is that I'm not bothered by anyone here now that Special K is gone. (The L Word's recent attacks on my development experience, or lack thereof, are secretly hilarious, because I know something he doesn't.)

[Anarchonixx] > You have a funny notion of what constructive criticism > entails.~ Well, if it looks ugly, and lacks any content whatsoever, it shouldn't exist. My website was the same way about 7 years ago. Please, gymboy. Think about what you want to say before how you want to say it.

[lessthanjakejohn] > No go on that, our webmaster is hosting this offsite with > some company and paying 17 bucks for no more than a gig of > bandwidth and what not. Mlar. Well, just keep it in mind. > there really is no reason. 1. Smaller file size. 2. Ideology - You know how evil...

Looks like crud. (The truth hurts.) What kind of content is it supposed to have? I don't click past entry pages.

[:LJ:] > I know you can't prove a negative, so I'm not asking you to > prove it. I don't have to. I am in the privileged position. You are the one claiming it matters, like claiming that rain dances bring rain. > from what I've seen of your software skills, I'd say that you > have...

Sgarissta admits that it is a Power that tele-operates sophonts in the Beyond. But consider how difficult it is to have a close-coupled automation with time lags of more than a few milliseconds. The Known Net is a perfect illustration of this... combined with the low bandwidth available across...

Skill is not subjective.

[maw] > however, text based pages have the overwhelming disadvantage > of being dull and boring. nobody wants to ingest their > information as a solid wall of text. Yeah, books. Who needs them? > a website has to find ways to draw people in and to hold > their attention. The best...