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I'll make a note to go over this on Monday - I think you're correct, because I forgot about this a…
Fred —
Hello, my install of Emacs is definitely using Casey's .emacs file (all his shortcuts are active a…
It is my understanding that the problem is largely a combination of educational and institutional.…
Raxfale —
I'm a fair bit behind, so forgive me if you covered this... ... and I haven't even looked at the c…
For hardcore optimizations Agners optimization manuals are good: He has stuff on how to optimize …
Well, obviously there are Handmade Hero episodes that give light introductions. But I'm not an o…
You were right, Miblo. I've pushed a small formatting change to my annotations of day 163 to trigg…
Beautiful. Thank you, Abner! I do solemnly swear to abuse my powers responsibly. And to begin brac…
I completely agree. I think part of the problem is that they expect the compiler or OS to "just h…
popcorn —
You can do anything fast if you already know how to do it. It's basically learning over time. For …
Filip —
Somewhat OT question, does sublemacspro support navigating the compiler build output in a sane way…
That is kind of what I meant. I want my tools to get the job done faster whilst not compromising o…
The real problem, of course, is not "getting the job done quick", because I am all for getting job…
"Getting the job done quickly" is as I believe a general problem in our hectic times. And it has n…
In the Q&A of Day 162, Casey was explaining about how bad tools have become. Visual Studio is crap…
Just a small correction for day 162. Casey said that UTF-16 is like UTF-8 a variable length encodi…
Yeah, I see what you mean. bool wins.
Thank you for the update. Yes this makes sense (I just was not 100% sure there would be a separat…
That's correct. You've been elevated, so abuse your powers responsibly. Regarding the translations…
dvkirn —
It's all good man, no need to apologize. :)
It'll be very loudly announced once it's ready. I have done the database system for authenticatio…
Well the problem there is that MergeIsPossible needs to check to see if the blocks are contiguous,…
Every year Microsoft makes it harder to actually ship a working executable.Casey
Somebody from MS turned up in Reddit thread where people are discussing C++ redistributable stuff …
I think omgagiantrock is thinking along the lines of what I was thinking. Essentially, in the plac…
I suppose there is nothing new? (Which is fine, just making sure I did not miss an email.)
robert —
Well, I could see it returning the merged block and if it could not merge the empty block (of witc…
Yo Abner, I'd be happy to take the reins. I'm guessing the elevated privileges will enable me to a…
I don't generally look at the code off-stream, so I'm just going by memory here: My suspicion is t…
If the merge doesn't happen it would just return the original block pointer.