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1991

I DO PROGRAMMING ON THIS ARCHAIC THING

Where, if you test your program and it crashes or enters an infinite loop, YOU HAVE TO START OVER

user226528

Those of you who have a PayPal account might want to be extra careful.

user226528

3:23 PM

Eek! This certain piece of spam is especially disturbing. It says I have an unclaimed shipment of *** toys. Even scammers have become kinky.

bertieb

Don't kink-shame spammers

It's not their fault that sending heaps of unsolicited email gets their motor running

allquixotic

@rahuldottech what C++ standard does it support? the first one? :P

rahuldottech

@allquixotic No

First standard was 1998

Standardization
Year	C++ Standard	Informal name
1998	ISO/IEC 14882:1998	C++98
2003	ISO/IEC 14882:2003	C++03
2011	ISO/IEC 14882:2011	C++11, C++0x
2014	ISO/IEC 14882:2014	C++14, C++1y

I have literally no idea what this thing does

Burgi

@rahuldottech it was an ok year

i think i got a BMX for christmas

rahuldottech

I'M BEING FORCED TO PROGRAM ON A COMPILER WHICH WAS RELEASED A DECADE BEFORE I WAS BORN NOTHING IS OKAY HERE, NOTHING.

@Burgi ^

Burgi

3:30 PM

you live in india, people drive cars that are HALF A CENTURY OLD

rahuldottech

@Burgi Nah, that's rare

really rare

Usually it's maybe a decade or two old at max

Burgi

the hindustan ambassador

rahuldottech

@Burgi No but it still gets updated, right?

Burgi

lol

rahuldottech

Difference between a 1952 Ambassador and a 2013 Ambassador

Sure, the brand is old, but the car is not

No one rides a car from half a century ago. Maybe one that has existed for so long, yeah.

Burgi

3:32 PM

i'm willing to bet there is little difference between the two

user226528

You mean it is not a Chevy anymore?

rahuldottech

@Burgi Sure except that it's actually a really good car

3 mins ago, by rahuldottech

I'M BEING FORCED TO PROGRAM ON A COMPILER WHICH WAS RELEASED A DECADE BEFORE I WAS BORN NOTHING IS OKAY HERE, NOTHING.

This is rather tumblr-esque

Burgi

you breathe air that was invented 1 billion years ago

rahuldottech

@Burgi that is so irrelevant

like

I challenge you

To use this

thingy

for programming

Burgi

C++?

That Brazilian Guy

3:35 PM

@rahuldottech The concepts of the language still stand. Core CS concepts don't change like JS frameworks, you know.

rahuldottech

@Burgi yes

@ThatBrazilianGuy yes but

We aren't studying core concepts in school

We're making fully featured programs on this

Burgi

@rahuldottech when i get a spare 3 days i'll learn it and take up your challenge

rahuldottech

14 mins ago, by rahuldottech

Where, if you test your program and it crashes or enters an infinite loop, YOU HAVE TO START OVER

And did I not just say

Like, start writing the program from the beginning

Burgi

thats how you learn the concepts

rahuldottech

i hate you guys

can you not just let me rant

bye

That Brazilian Guy

3:37 PM

@rahuldottech "Fully featured" as in those classic "make a car rental / DVD rental / blah blah system" assignments?

rahuldottech

@ThatBrazilianGuy MY TEACHER ASKED ME IF I CAN USE THIS FOR ARDUINO

LIKE

Burgi

yes

rahuldottech

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Burgi

the answer is yes

That Brazilian Guy

@rahuldottech Start over as in erase your code and start from scratch? Okay, THAT PART is utterly idiotic and would make any moderately sane person hate the subject forever.

Burgi

3:38 PM

C++ is closer to the bare metal

rahuldottech

@Burgi You cannot use turbo c++ as an IDE for arduino

Which is what my teacher asked me

the so-called IDE

Not the language

That Brazilian Guy

@rahuldottech ~~Use what for Arduino? C++? I'm not familiar with arduino, does the framework support C++?~~

rahuldottech

@ThatBrazilianGuy Only C

That Brazilian Guy

@rahuldottech Oh god.

Burgi

so your issue is with the IDE, NOT the language

rahuldottech

3:39 PM

@Burgi what have I been saying

Burgi

can you not import the libraries?

rahuldottech

@Burgi nothing of normal c++ exists here

And I'm only allowed to use Turbo C++ with default libraries during practical exams

Like the one I had today

user226528

I remember having to work with Turbo Pascal when I was 15.

Burgi

i remember pascal

it only worked properly on WIN95

user226528

There is a community patch for it.

Burgi

3:47 PM

you had to re-write vast sections of code to get it to work on WIN98 or 2000

user226528

If you mean Turbo Pascal, its name was changed to Delphi.

user226528

So, if you stuck with Turbo Pascal 7, it is pretty much on you.

Burgi

it might have been turbo pascal, i haven't used it since the turn of the century

it might have been TP7, i can't really remember

user226528

Before .NET Framework came around, Delphi was the best IDE ever.

user226528

It's compiler created the fastest EXEs on Earth.

user226528

3:50 PM

Act of War: Direct Action is written with Delphi.

user226528

The 2nd good things after Delphi was Visual Basic, which was far too underpowered, and Visual C++, which was far too low-level in comparison.

Burgi

i liked VB6 at college

bertieb

I think I used Borland Delphi for ...some things?

user226528

You know, Delphi didn't have or need a garbage collector. It was a neat-by-design object-oriented IDE.

user226528

When an object is destroyed, it calls its destructor which cleans up its own code.

user226528

3:52 PM

Of course, Delphi could never compete with Microsoft in price department, so Borland lost the competition.

user226528

Also, Pascal and Delphi never suffered from stack overflow bug.

user226528

Their strings were reference-counted instead of null-terminated.

user226528

Oh, look at me. I am rambling again. I should probably shut up before all of you leave.

rahuldottech

4:20 PM

@FleetCommand Oh, no

This is interesting stuff

Good to know :)

user226528

5:07 PM

Well, that's all the interesting stuff I knew about Delphi. These architecturally superior aspects of it were quickly overshadowed by its architecturally inferior aspects.

user226528

For example, Borland wasn't quick enough to support Unicode and x64.

user226528

Not just in Delphi, but also in its BDE.

user226528

Oh, and then there is Microsoft marketing power: It markets its products in 200 countries! Borland never sold to so many countries.

Burgi

6:41 PM

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Burgi

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bwDraco

7:27 PM

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Hmm...

First time I've used CamelCamelCamel.

djsmiley2k

camelcamelcamel is cool

especially for things that sem to randomly drop in price

bwDraco

For whatever reason, Lenovo Vantage is constantly writing to disk while on the power settings page. It's apparently writing over the same LBAs repeatedly; Romex PrimoCache helping big-time by preventing most of those writes from hitting the eMMC.

By my estimate, it's doing about 15-25 GB/hour.

rahuldottech

7:46 PM

Rick Astley basically predicted how hit his song would be back in 1986: latlmes.com/entertainment/astley-ready-for-stardom-6-88-1

Burgi

its bad having a birthday at the end of jan

no-one has any money for presents and the sales are over

rahuldottech

8:02 PM

> He wore thongs on our first date. If I am getting dressed up all nice for you the least you could do is wear some fucking shoes.

LMAO, Aussies

(source)

@Bob ^

djsmiley2k

I just hate birthdays tbh @Burgi

wait, are we discussing my birthday? (It's tomorrow :/ )

9

rahuldottech

8:19 PM

@JourneymanGeek did you investigate the "You have starred and pinned this message" dialogue? I still get it in the transcript for anything I star.

bertieb

@djsmiley2k Have an early birthday star

:D

Michael Frank

MANY STARS FOR THE BIRTHDAY BOY! @djsmiley2k

@rahuldottech I get the same message, it's probably a string bug.

Canadian Luke

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Michael Frank

8:46 PM

@CanadianLuke I reckon Tasker could probably hook that menu function with a single button.

djsmiley2k

9:02 PM

Srsly tho, who's birthday was @Burgi talkign about

bertieb

Was it not his and David's recently?

Wait what... am I missing something?

Jan 22 at 16:37, by djsmiley2k

Happy Birthday @Burgi

Je suis confus

Canadian Luke

@MichaelFrank I'll take a look

Doesn't look like it

Michael Frank

It might work, but it's likely to need custom code.

djsmiley2k

9:36 PM

oui

i win the 'birthday at end of January award ;D

allquixotic

9:47 PM

Reference counting

In computer science, reference counting is a technique of storing the number of references, pointers, or handles to a resource such as an object, block of memory, disk space or other resource. It may also refer, more specifically, to a garbage collection algorithm that uses these reference counts to deallocate objects which are no longer referenced. == Use in garbage collection == As a collection algorithm, reference counting tracks, for each object, a count of the number of references to it held by other objects. If an object's reference count reaches zero, the object has become inaccessible,...

Zillions of languages and runtimes use it.

Even lots of C++ libraries (modern ones) use reference counting for automatic allocation and deallocation.

Bob

morn

bertieb

o/

DavidPostill

@rahuldottech An AU thong is not what you think it is :)

DavidPostill

10:05 PM

@rahuldottech lol. The first c++ compiler I used (I taught myself using it and the The C++ Programming Language first edition) was - in 1986 - First commercial Cfront PC port (Cfront 1.1, Glockenspiel)

That Brazilian Guy

11:21 PM

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Interesting answers there

Bob

11:34 PM

> Alleviating the Stress Induced by Maintaining a Popular Free and Open Source Software Project

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idk if that's relevant to anyone here :P

lol. what on earth is going on here superuser.com/questions/1290504/vpn-dedicated-ip (cc @DavidPostill)

I'm sure it made sense in their head...

ohhhh it's actually worse after the edit

Burgi

11:51 PM

@bertieb @djsmiley2k i was talking about my own, i got loads of vouchers and money this year BUT being so late in january means that all the sales have ended and everything is either full price or totally sold out

bertieb

Hold on to the and CamelCamelCamel your way to voucher success :D

This isn't my ~~URL bar!~~ ~~omnibox!~~ SkyNet interface

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