All the other languages I’ve worked with except C++ have checks for ambiguous inheritance. For example, if a class inherits two other classes in which both have a member function called which have the same name an ambiguous reference is created. That took me forever to figure out. I was trying to overload the board [...]
I think I have the worst learning curve when it comes to sleep. Probably when I was 5 my parents told me that sleep makes you grow. I doubt I believed them, and probably assumed it was another myth like Santa. Then when I was around 10 I probably learned all what happens when a [...]
I redid the way things were grouped on this. The old way was that I had just had a seperate column for the Category. Instead now I created a seperate table for the Category now. That way, if I want to reorganize or rename a category, all I have to do is edit the category [...]
Everyone is gossiped about sometime other the other whether about something or someone. Annoys you? If so, talk with the person you are being gossiped about, and all of a sudden the gossip loses its power. It turns into a matter of amusement, rather than of annoyance.
Yahoo is moving to PHP! This should be a real good boost for open source. Yahoo’s old systems were powered by C++, and now they need something that is easier to modify. They also are planning on using MySQL for newer projects. I imagine that they’ll be writing lots of modules for more power as [...]