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| location | England, United Kingdom | |
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| visits | member for | 2 years, 7 months |
| seen | 21 hours ago | |
| stats | profile views | 112 |
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Feb 27 |
awarded | Informed |
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Feb 26 |
awarded | Constituent |
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Feb 25 |
awarded | Caucus |
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Oct 21 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Sep 5 |
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How can I give a basic idea of what I'm working on to a non programmer? +1 "Explain what you are doing in a way that doesnt relate to code" Exactly right. A non programmer couldn't care about all the finely crafted classes communicating through widget protected global variables and the nest of GOTO statements that you put in to confuse the maintenance group. Explain in terms that relate to their life experience. Anyone can understand "the website is slow and I am making it go faster". |
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Jul 30 |
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Are some NOP codes treated differently than others? Most times the NOP instruction is used to insert a short delay, usually as a result of some hardware dependency or device errata work around. The performance penalty is the reason for using the NOP. |
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Jul 17 |
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Should you keep a copy of all the code you write? See this article embeddedgurus.com/stack-overflow/2012/02/… from Nigel Jones who acts as an expert witness in software theft cases. |
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Jun 1 |
answered | What is the purpose of “re-type your email” field? |
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May 3 |
awarded | Great Answer |
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Apr 17 |
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Is it a good practice to use smaller data types for variables to save memory? @nikie - they might be aligned on a 4 byte boundary on an x86 processor but this is not true in general. MSP430 places char on any byte address and everything else on an even byte address. I think that AVR-32 and ARM Cortex-M are the same. |
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Apr 17 |
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Is it a good practice to use smaller data types for variables to save memory? When writing for an embedded processor the difference between short, int, long is often going to make a huge difference to whether your application will fit in the available memory. In the embedded world different rules apply. ...And before anyone says that C++ is not used on small processors - my last C++ project had a massive 32K of RAM, before that we had just 2K. |
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Apr 17 |
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Is it a good practice to use smaller data types for variables to save memory? +1 for the fact that different rules apply to embedded systems. The fact that C++ is mentioned does not mean that the target is a PC. One of my recent projects was written in C++ on a processor with 32k of RAM and 256K of Flash. |
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Apr 12 |
answered | Why do different languages use different Code Line Delimiters? |
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Mar 20 |
awarded | Guru |
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Mar 15 |
answered | The reason to make some code open source |
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Mar 15 |
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Should I log trivial fixes? During the early development phase, before releasing a first version out of the engineering team then there is no need to log changes in the bug tracker. The changes will however be noted in the version control logs against each submission. |
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Mar 15 |
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Should I log trivial fixes? Just because it takes longer to log than to fix is not sufficient justification. Ha! this one had an explanation :) |
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Mar 15 |
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Why are statements in many programming languages terminated by semicolons? added 1420 characters in body |
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Mar 14 |
answered | Right Amount of Security on Machine |
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Mar 14 |
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Why are statements in many programming languages terminated by semicolons? @Travis Christian - Semicolon added :) |
