Programming
the ideal programmer
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The ideal programmer is located in Paris, at the House of Weights and Measures, under a glass cap without air.
Single point of failure
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It is generally considered that something with a single point of failure is bad. It means if that point fails, everything fails.
Are Pascal and Object Pascal (Delphi) two different languages?
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Well... Pascal is ancient and defined by Wirth in the 60s. Since then, Borland added some object-oriented features to the language back in its ver 5.5 of Turbo Pascal.
What is C++
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C++ is basically just some world contest of who writes the best String class.
Java and garbage collection
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Java has an automatic garbage collection; Java projects tend to collect all the garbage in the world.
Swapping variables using XOR, the edge case
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Consider the following function:
Differences between sleep(0) and sleep(1)
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Well, sleep(ms) gives away the processor for at least ms milliseconds.