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Or, Why C is The Worst Language To Teach Beginners In
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Caveat: I am currently enrolled in a certain IT education system known for its ads featuring two teen actresses, one of which is associated with the so-called "jologs" and "bakya" crowd, with the other being too sugary-sweet and having a gratingly high-pitched voice. The opinions presented herein are my own and not my school's— besides, I honestly dislike the place, and am there on a mere formality (I need a damned diploma).
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There will be an online meeting tomorrow evening at 9pm for the Software Freedom Day this September. The meeting will be held over Yahoo! Messenger. If you're interested in helping out, feel free to join us tomorrow. Contact me by sending an IM to Y!ID cyberlizard0 tomorrow evening to join in.
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I’m a bit impatient waiting for my order of CDs to arrive from Canonical (I still want them, if only because the packaging is good and I prefer original CDs), so I asked my cousin to download and burn Hoary preview for me. Yesterday, I got the CD and last night I installed it on my relatively-ancient PC
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Question: Say you had the following tables:
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On one project I was assigned to recently, I used Hibernate to manage data access. I even explained the whole deal to my technical manager and my project manager— with some level of excitement. (Okay, maybe with a lot of excitement— think a kid in a candy store).
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Some links I found recently, after a long and lively debate I had with a co-developer about the economics of open source software. I was for open source, and my colleague was for closed source. He basically was arguing that open source fundamentally can't be sold (i.e., there is no business there, and open source will die out). I was arguing that there is a business model there somewhere.
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Lately, I’ve been working on a project in Microsoft Visual C#. The language itself closely resembles Java (especially in certain parts of the class library exposed by Microsoft .NET), but its heritage is more C++ than Java. Inheritance is via the same construct/syntax as C++, and both interfaces and classes are inherited this way, unlike in Java with its
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I’ve been catching up with F/OSS news lately, and have been reading several articles, blog posts, and news items. What seems to be the common denominator in the F/OSS community is the level of zealotry and passion that dominates conversations and comments. For example, this blog post of one user’s opinion has pretty inflamatory comments from various KDE and GNOME users.
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Some snippets of last night's conversation, while I was playing around with the Debian box (now named butiki, no relation to my home box:
Posts with code snippets in various (programming) languages.