Fred Nurk

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I'll probably use SO from time to time, but not often.

fredbnurk at gmail dot com

You really want both StackExchangeScripts and to remove the annoying tag from page titles.

print "\n".join((x % 3 == 0) * "Fizz"
                + (x % 5 == 0) * "Buzz"
                or str(x)
                for x in xrange(1, 100+1))

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Mar 10	comment	How to convince a client that you will not steal his idea Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats. – Howard Aiken, creator of the IBM/Harvard Mark 1 Computer
Feb 22	comment	Avoid GPL violation by moving library out of process @Andrey: If the "nature" of your program is directly tied to the GPL code, the section quoted above would not apply. From your question it sounds like that is the case. A counter example could be a network intrusion analysis program which just happens to use GNU readline through the mechanism you propose. (Readline is an interesting test case because there's a BSD-licensed drop-in alternative.)
Feb 21	comment	Avoid GPL violation by moving library out of process @vartec: Linus' post you linked doesn't support what you have said here in comments. For example: "So [either static or dynamic] 'linking' basically has very little to do with 'derived' per se." And: "anybody who thinks that copyright law cares about 'mkisofs' [or static linking] vs 'ld' [or dynamic linking] is just obviously misguided."
Feb 21	revised	Best practices for using namespaces in C++ added 44 characters in body
Feb 21	answered	Best practices for using namespaces in C++
Feb 21	comment	Best practices for using namespaces in C++ Access restriction is orthogonal to modules. In fact, you have successful systems like Python's which definitely are more "module-like" than C++'s namespaces, but impose no access restrictions at all.
Feb 19	comment	Why does the word “Pythonic” exist? I've seen many people (on SO, mostly) start out saying they're going to write this in a "Pythonic way", then proceed to write absolutely horrible Python code (as far as being readable and idiomatic goes) just because they want to condense everything to certain features (e.g. list comprehensions or lambdas). Don't let these people unfairly color your view. Example: stackoverflow.com/q/4854588
Feb 19	comment	What project did you work on when you were a C++ beginner? This is fundamental. Real projects need users, otherwise there's no way to tell when you're done (= "met the users' requirements"). Being your own user simplifies many steps and is directly useful to you immediately.
Feb 16	awarded	Nice Answer
Feb 16	revised	Learning C++ properly (not C with classes) added 257 characters in body
Feb 16	answered	Learning C++ properly (not C with classes)
Feb 15	answered	Is C++ not suitable for OOP?
Feb 15	revised	How important is it that you know the C++ standard? added 194 characters in body
Feb 15	revised	How important is it that you know the C++ standard? added 46 characters in body
Feb 15	comment	How important is it that you know the C++ standard? @DavidThornley: Here's an example of what I mean regarding standardese not being conducive for learning.
Feb 14	comment	How important is it that you know the C++ standard? @Nim: As far as parameter types and positions, well, it's hard to screw up that kind of copying and pasting (usually someone will make a few trivial errors here, but I remember reporting one to cplusplus.com and it got fixed quickly). I sometimes use it for that since the web is usually easier to navigate than a PDF. But some of the examples, which would be the really useful bit, are just horrid – and I remember finding grosser inaccuracies in them.
Feb 14	comment	How important is it that you know the C++ standard? @DavidThornley: I will very rarely quote sites like that (cplusplus.com in particular has too many problems for my taste), but for most posters on SO, they also seem more useful, even with errors, than the standard – and being easily available online is, unfortunately, a big part of that.