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Comment on Ikigai by Sebastian Marshall – A Review by Calvin Froedge

Calvin Froedge — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:19:08 +0000

Yea, man! It’s funny, just re-reading what I wrote after your response I saw several of my own minor mistakes that I didn’t notice while I was writing = ). If you want anything proofed in the future hit me up.

Really enjoyed Ikigai. A book I’d highly recommend you check out (right up your alley) is “The Talent Code” by Daniel Coyle. Fascinating stuff about how talent is built through deliberate practice (the science, down to the level of myelin wrapping neurons in your brain to hard wire new skills).

Comment on Ikigai by Sebastian Marshall – A Review by Sebastian Marshall

Sebastian Marshall — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:15:40 +0000

Thanks for the review, really appreciated. We’re doing a final cleanup of typos and polish before we push to Createspace so people can get physical copies — I agree about the value of polish. Thanks for the read and the review, best wishes,

-SM

Comment on The difference between a function-like macro and a function in C, C++ by Calvin Froedge

Calvin Froedge — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:23:59 +0000

Yo, thanks, John! Yea, you’re right. The MIT Open Courseware also compares several of the different possibilities based on parenthesis uses. Thanks for reading!

Comment on The difference between a function-like macro and a function in C, C++ by John Crepezzi

John Crepezzi — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:22:28 +0000

Nice post – definitely worth noting that since the macro is equivalent to a substitution, wrapping 2 + 1 in parenthesis fixes the discrepancy. Great topic!

Comment on How Well Do You Understand “Static” Variables? by Calvin Froedge

Calvin Froedge — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:52:20 +0000

Hey Nick, thanks, I dd not include the static keyword in the second code sample by mistake. I copy and pasted from the first.

You make a great point about what may seem like a subtle difference:

static $test;
$test = 0;

…does yield a totally different result than

static $test = 0;

For anyone who may not have caught the difference, in the first example $test is initialized as a static variable with a NULL value, and is then immediately reassigned a value of 0. In Nick’s second example, $test is initialized as a static variable with a n integer value of 0. Because the static keyword is used, $test need not be reinitialized.

Thanks for reading and contributing!

Comment on How Well Do You Understand “Static” Variables? by Nick Brown

Nick Brown — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:41:09 +0000

In the second code example, you should actually put the ‘static’ keyword in there, to be clear about what you mean.

static $test; $test = 0;

… produces a completely different result than …

static $test = 0;

The static keyword not only affects the behaviour of the variable, but also the behaviour of the initialization of the variable, if and only if it is initialzed as part of the static declaration.

I think you’ll struggle to dispell anyones sense of it being trippy, unless you get that point across.

Cheers.

Comment on Quick Introduction to the Observer Pattern by Fast, Easy Web Design! » Blog Archive » Web based Application Development and ReEngineering Viteb …

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:51:16 +0000

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Comment on How I fixed screen flicker on Acer S232HL widescreen – Macbook Pro by Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:25:37 +0000

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Comment on CodeIgniter Payments – A New Library for CodeIgniter Reactor by Iván T.

Iván T. — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:56:11 +0000

Great job! Do you have in mind Liberty Reserve and Bitcoin APIs ?

Comment on Дом Водка – My Last Night on the Black Sea by svchost.exe

svchost.exe — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:27:08 +0000

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