Recent content by gmar

You say curl_exec() returns true indicating success. What does "success" mean? Let's say curl successfully runs, successfully contacts the destination webserver, and successfully transmits your message. However, the server is responding with "200 OK" and "Busy, please try again later!" instead...

There's an underlying issue here that I think people are on different sides of and perhaps not realising. This is, "Do you believe that your coding standard is part of your project's specification?" If you do, it's easier to come to the decision to reject non-compliant code. Especially in...

I really like that website. I might have to start sending more people there. I thought it was just for maths. I would suggest an improvement, make the objects you are dodging/collecting all spherical. Then you can test for collision by distance to the centre. This would alleviate player rage...

Is this homework? If not then nothing you can write in JS will outperform the built-ins. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/split I am not fully familiar with JS but it looks like you want a set, or a failing that, a standard dict...

I don't see how those opinions differ. I just did some Google-fu. I think we are in agreement. I didn't know he was involved in the project until I noticed he wrote "we". I guess that commerically, C++ did "need" some kind of high-profile embedded project. I am not at all convinced by...

There's a lot of points to cover in this thread. We know their (Google's) C++ style is possibly controversial but the point is, firstly if a Googler said "only use single points of return" then, assuming he meant C++, it has to borne in mind the environment in which he works, and secondly, when...

I am not sure this is a C++ question. The OP did not mention what language the Google engineer he quoted was working with and the OP himself chose to consider the statement only within C++. If the original source was referring to C++, you have to also consider Google's C++ style guidelines...

You should be probably be doing this instead: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/range-for

One community's pattern is another community's anti-pattern. This is quite common in C. function allocate_and_process (): a = allocate () if test (a) == fail: goto UNDO_A b = allocate () if test (b) == fail: goto UNDO_B c = allocate ()...

That's weird since doing a custom extension for an existing extensible code formatter is probably a weekend's work for an intern. My programming background is embedded systems in C. We do a lot of things the majority of non-realtime coders don't like, but in all honesty, the majority of...

What is all this? while i < len (x): print (x[i]) i +=1 Is that Python? It looks a C programmer tried to write Python. Might I suggest this: things = ["alice", "bob", "carol"] for t in things: print (t) If you need the index, use this...

There is certainly some dispute over the former issue. As for the latter, your editor or IDE can automatically reformat code when you open it. I am much more interested in the GOTO issue that was mentioned earlier in the thread. It's actually standard practice in quite a lot of places...

Don't roll your own crypto. When sorcery like this starts flying around most people should realize they are in way over their head and use a standard library. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timing_attack So you might think, OK I'll just add a random delay. But, if you can miss something...

In some languages that is OK.

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