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Month: September 2012

The Cookie Monster!

13/09/2012 ~ evilrix ~ 1 Comment
Really starting to get fed up with having to accept cookies on all sites I now visit thanks to EU legislation. Ironically, these are the same cookies I’ve been accepting since the Internet Cookie was conceived.

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Stop Reinventing C++ Wheels!

02/09/2012 ~ evilrix ~ Leave a comment

Necessity is the mother of invention

One thing that always amazes me is how often I see C++ programmers reinvent the wheel. The times I’ve seen engineers writing yet another sort routine or implementing their own version of a linked list, because they have a “special case” that necessitates it, just beggars belief. A “special case”? Really? Come on!

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