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List bands you've heard of, but cannot recall ever actually having heard the music of. Now I know this is gonna descend into "Well that's cuz they suck!!" territory, but let's at least try to keep it informative, shall we? If you see a band listed here...
Started by funkee1 on
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by 15 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at ebassist):
Hey!!! I'm just trying to educate ....
You can either thank me or slap.
Been playing that song for 2 1/2 months and had heard of the band but didnt not horrible (except for the lame raps!) Anyway, now you've heard him.
By Foster The People.
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The title says it all! Tools / utilities / games that I might not have heard about, but you can't live without?
Started by Andy Mikula on
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by 32 people.
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There actually....
F.lux , a daemon that darkens the screen at night .
Plus its all GUI based for those that are afraid of the command-line .
Probably btnx , a tool for customizing and tweaking every mouse button you have (great for mouses with tons of hot keys) .
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I heard that Python has automated "garbage collection" , but C++ does not. What does that mean?
Started by alex on
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by 8 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
// somewhere else in your program you....
Example in C++:
char *ch = new char[100]; ch[0]='a'; ch[1]='b'; //... .
That means that python user doesn't need to clean his dynamic created objects, like you're obligated to do it in C/C++ .
Try reading up on it.
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Being a passionate developer, I'm sometimes amazed when people in the industry have not heard about key technologies, news stories, new sites, development podcasts, etc.
Does not reading RSS feeds, listening to podcasts, or following key Twitter users...
Started by Shaun on
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by 16 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Different != Bad
Stackoverlow.
And I have heard of jQuery, but I don't know that you haven't heard of some of the things that they use daily.
Disclosure: I have no idea whatsoever what Csla or DntTV are .
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I've heard that i++ isn't a thread-safe statement since in assembly it reduces down to storing the original value as a temp somewhere, incrementing it, and then replacing it, which could be interrupted by a context switch.
However, I'm wondering about...
Started by samoz on
, 14 posts
by 14 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
It may well be that "i++" is thread.
You've heard wrong.
The answer is to test the heck out of it .
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Following the Egregious pop culture perversion of programming , what is the most outlandishly insane technobabble you have ever heard, either in fiction or real life?
Extra points to those unfortunates whose real life stories beat Hollywood.
Note: feel...
Started by pookleblinky on
, 46 posts
by 45 people.
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Where everyone called the desktop, the "modem." We have all heard the "harddrive" phrase.
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I've heard many in my career.
"Don't waste time coding for that. This application will NEVER require additional functionality."
"Unit testing is a waste of time."
"Just do what you have to do to make it work."
Does anyone wish to share?
Thanks, ~ck in...
Started by Kettenbach on
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by 10 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Actually, the "don't waste time coding for that" would have been okay, if they had finished up with "we'll do that when we need that functionality."
I don't care which... .
Lame, but unfortunately true.
Lately I've been going around you to get things done" .
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I have heard like I said in the title, that if I could only have one all around gun for carry home protection whatever, It would be a Glock 23.
I'm asking why the 23?
Started by jasmen on
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by 9 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at calguns):
A G19 would be nice to own too.
G17 and 1 G26 if that tells you anything.
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My employer was recently acquired by a much larger company. In the process of sorting out all the legal details around our licenses for our development software, we have learned that the vendor of our IDE charges a "nominal" fee of 25% of the cost of ...
Started by Scott W on
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by 10 people.
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I have heard of some agreements where you can't.
Think about buying music, images etc.
I've heard of it before in regards to some high-end graphics software to software either.
Or did not check it out.
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This is a derivative question, but I'm inquiring as to the data structures that you should at least be familiar with for their usefulness. These structures are too hard to implement without some expertise however.
I would say a good boundary between the...
Started by Overflown on
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by 8 people.
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Have heard of them, but I do believe they're an interesting example of what kind of complexity you can.
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