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Technical writers could learn from this man
Aug 28, 2008 15:05 EDT
Try to maintain a consistent naming style. For example, capitalize nonstandard library user-defined types and start nontypes with a lowercase letter (for example, Shape and current_token). Also, use all capitals for macros (if you must use macros; for example HACK) and user underscores to separate words in an identifier.
hahaha.
This is why I love reading Stroustrup, he doesn't get so technical your eyes start to bleed. He brings a certain humour and lightheartedness to his writing that makes it almost enjoyable, which makes it easier to stick with and actually get something out of it.
Deep Dish - Flashdance
bored
everybody seems to think i'm lazy, i don't mind, i think they're crazy
Aug 6, 2008 21:40 EDT
A lot of people like to fool you and say that you're not smart if you never went to college, but common sense rules over everything. That's what I learned from selling crack
- Snoop Dogg
The Beatles - I'm Only Sleeping
amused
i feel like swimming in your apathy as a kind of parody
Aug 4, 2008 14:58 EDT
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly towards aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interest of the ruling class--whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual (from Frank Herbert's Children of Dune)
Above all else, the mentat must be a generalist, not a specialist. It is wise to have decisions of great moment monitored by generalists. Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma. The mentat-generalist, on the other hand, should bring to decision-making a healthy common sense. He must not cut himself off from the broad sweep of what is happening in his universe. He must remain capable of saying: "There's no real mystery about this at the moment. This is what we want now. It may prove wrong later, but we'll correct that when we come to it." The mentat-generalist must understand that anything we can identify as our universe is merely part of larger phenomena. But the expert looks backwards; he looks into the narrow standards of his own specialty. The generalist looks outward; he looks for living principles, knowing full well that such principles change, that they develop. It is to the characteristics of change itself that the mentat-generalist must look. There can be no permanent catalogue of such change, no handbook or manual. You must look at it with as few preconceptions as possible, asking yourself: "Now what is this thing doing?"
- The Mentat Handbook (from Frank Herbert's Children of Dune)
Bloc Party - Banquet (Phones Disco Edit)
heat
i had no hand in watching it all fall apart
Aug 2, 2008 19:14 EDT
I see things before they happen sometimes, see the future unfolding in my head, and all I want to do is change the course of the people I care about so they avoid the sadness and the pain in their path. They don't see what I see though, don't believe I can see it, so if I try they resent me for it. For what they see as an intrusion of their will, for the slight they perceive in what is only an act of love on my part.
For once I stood aside, I held my tongue. I watched everything in my head happen, saw events culminate and create pain in someone I love and now I feel failure. Failure that I can never change anything, that if I fight I lose who I care about, and if I don't, I have to live with the thought that I didn't try hard enough. That I didn't do what I knew was the right thing because just once I didn't want to lose what made me happy. I hate myself a little more for it.
I know to see things this way is wrong, that I have to put myself first, that people have to live their own lives and make their own mistakes, but then what point is there in my existence? What point is there in what I see, in the thoughts I'm constantly haunted by if I can never do anything for the people I care about?
I wish it would all just go away.
The Smashing Pumpkins - Blissed & Gone
heartbroken
i don't, feel, anything
Aug 2, 2008 13:06 EDT
i wake up, on the floor, start it up again, like it matters anymore
i don't know, if it does, is this really all, that there ever was?
put the gun, in my mouth, close your eyes, blow my fucking brains out
pretty patterns, on the floor, that's enough for you, but i still need more
Nine Inch Nails - 1,000,000
emotional overload