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| I've been thinking - a lot - lately about how few programmers actually take the time to learn how their language of choice works. I mean, it's understandable for those using languages (*cough* Visual Basic *cough*) that don't have their own source code available.
But really, those are rare. C? Crap, there are a billion implementations available, for free. Easily downloaded and perused. Same with C++. Python, Perl, PHP, Java, or Ruby? They're open source, too.
This probably makes me sound like an elitist bastard. That's ok - I am one. But I honestly wonder how someone can claim, "Hey, I know how to code in *blah*" without having actually read the source of it, to see how and what's happening.
Documentation is great. It's grand. But it's often only telling half of the story, if that much.
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| Battle of the bands finals are this Saturday at 2pm at the Catalyst in Knoxville. Our own Mercury Griffin will be there with the rest of HateSickLive. They sound pretty wicked - and hell, the drinks are pretty cheap, so they'll sound even better - so come on and show some support. | | |
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| Our ab and back machine suffered from a meltdown. Specifically, one of the welds broke, and the metal was torn pretty badly. We'd been using the hell out of it, so unfortunately that's not surprising. Bear managed to fix and reinforce it, as she used her powers of unbelievable awesomeness on it - plus a couple of blood sacrifices - so we're good to go for now. I won't be able to use it on maximum resistance, but hey, I'm not complaining. I'll just have to do a hundred more reps to get the proper burn. I'm using the weight vest again for push ups. Started back at 20 extra pounds to give my joints a chance to acclimate. I'll be using it at that weight for stances soon enough. Continuing seeing progress with stretching. I'm almost more flexible (hah) than I was before I got out of shape. My tendons tend to the steel cable variety so that's pretty amazing for me. I still need to work a crapload on back flexibility, but the legs, they're getting better. I hit 30 mph on 4th resistance, actually a little bit over but I'm only counting whole numbers. That's about it. | | |
| Lately I've been thinking that while Python's got its standard bag of goodies, as does Java, PHP, Perl, and C#, C++ has been missing out on a lot of love from the community. Granted, it has the Standard Template Library, and that's great for what it is, but after using the higher level languages so much, it felt like something was missing. However, thanks to some judicious digging around, I've found that there's a spiffy library (set of libraries, really) out there called Poco. It's basically attempting to be a treasure chest of things any programmer will have to deal with (database access, socket handling, configuration file parsing, et al), and providing a pretty nice interface for it. Whereas Boost provides handy idioms and tools to build the tools you need for an application, this is more along the lines of "inherit, override, compile, and go!". Kind of like Python or PHP, really. (: | | |
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