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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.
@DvKirn I've added your project to the list. Sorry for the small delay.
Yo. I cannot be more appreciative of you guys for handling this so smoothly. @Miblo, I'd like to e…
Stepanov and Rose's book has this to say about concepts:A concept can be viewed as a set of requir…
Mattie —
If MergeIfPossible() returns the pointer to the merged block when the merge succeeds, what should …
Raxfale —
Your generalization is just over kill and you ain't gonna need it. Templates can be very useful b…
I cannot believe I am saying this but one good thing about MatLab is its builtin math. It does hav…
Could anyone point me to a write up about why Casey thinks C++ is so bad, I mean really specifical…
Concepts are like interfaces for templates. When you say: Then vector expects certain things to …
Part of HMH's fun is trying to anticipate how Casey is going to write something before he writes i…
That is not generally how one templatizes a linear algebra vector. Typically you parameterize no…
Yes, as Martins says, there are a lot of benefits to a metaprogrammed vector type. The problem wi…
His implementation avoids reimplementing for each Vector type functions like dot, length, lerp and…
For those interested in details, I've added one such implementation to the above repo. (lml.h and…