Dunno why I'm posting this one, but what the heck? One of the things I've been doing for several years now is being a moderator for this site. Occasionally, someone will join who is eager to join the ranks of moderators. Other times, we grow enough where we need to add one or two more members to our ranks. Regardless, there seems to be no awareness that being a good moderator and being a good member of the forum are completely different things. All of us joined this ...
For those of you who visit CODECALL daily (thank you for coming so often), you might have noticed that the site was down since 9PM PST and finally came back online around 11:45AM today. To make sure everyone is aware of what happened (lost threads, posts, messages, etc.), I put up a notice across the site to notify everyone: Due to an unsuccessful upgrade of vBulletin v4.10 last night, we had to restore the site to a previous backup. Although we made a backup of the site right before ...
Updated 02-09-2012 at 03:56 PM by Roger
I've found that the best way to learn a mathematical or theoretical subject is to work things out in your head. Think about the material you're learning and come up with your own theorems, corollaries, proofs, etc. That's what I've been doing with the computer science subjects I'm studying. In a display of self-importance I've decided to call these DarkLord's Laws. Though to be fair, these have probably been worked out by countless people before me, and they're not the kind of thing I would ...
It seems Microsoft's marketing strategies have been going steadily downhill. Here are some things I've noticed. 1. They can't put attractive people in their ads. If you look at a banner ad for an iPhone or Android, you'll probably see a hot girl holding a phone. Ads for Microsoft products tend to show homely people and/or people in business suits. This has the effect of 1) not attracting people's eyes, and 2) once again associating MS with office work. 2. ...
Duplicati is one of those small miracles that occurs once every millennium. I can already see people lining up to say "Eww it's a GUI", "You call yourself a programmer??" and "I use to use GUIs then I took an arrow to the knee" but to be honest it works, and it works well. I spent ages searching for some backup software that would connect to my server and do an incremental backup. I mean the other way round with servers SSHing into my laptop would be inconvenient (if ...
I have to write a program that will calulate the total currency value of a number of coins using only pennies. 2 dimes, 25 nickles, 15 quartes with the total in pennies. I'm completely lost Please help I can't get pass the Declare.
Great language/concept. Terrible Implementation. The language and design concepts are great: a language where you can compile once run anywhere, a language where you can pass objects easily without any pointers, a language where everything seamlessly fits. As for the implementation, the runaway memory usage drives me nuts (3GB of RAM for some thing that shouldn't scrape 512MB?) and the CPU overhead is also annoying (but understandable once you consider the portability besides ...
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