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  • Dave Ballantyne (1/4/2011)


    Do you even know what bit shift is ?

    No... should I?

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  • WayneS (1/4/2011)


    Dave Ballantyne (1/4/2011)


    Do you even know what bit shift is ?

    No... should I?

    Rhetorical question 😉 , but a bit shift involves moving all the bits in a byte (to the left or right) , which has the effect of multiply or dividing by 2.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitwise_operation#Bit_shifts



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  • Jeff Moden (1/4/2011)


    On the first one, click on the "Report Abuse" button, select the radio button with the CopyRight indication, and follow the appropriate link to report the infringment to the DMCA.

    Then, since there is no "Report Abuse" button that I can discern on that second article, I'd just report it the same way as the first one.

    Reported the first one under DMCA , as its hosted on blogspot that should have some effect.

    Mailed both 'owners' and left comments on the blogs , we'll see....



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  • Dave Ballantyne (1/4/2011)


    Had to share ... On facebook one of my wifes friends posts

    On drilling into C++ from C#, I know now why C# is so called "word safe": Bloody hell C++ can be hard work, by comparison, it's like a surly teenager. So far my programs have not run because of the occasional "+" instead of a "<<", and stuff being not in the "correct order". By heck it's pedantic...

    Thrashes on ...

    Yes, you fool , it is the languages fault that you meant bit shift left rather than add.

    Do you even know what bit shift is ?

    Strange. On my keyboard the + and the << are not close together. How do you make a typo like that?

    And a programming language that wants you to put stuff in the correct order? Blasphemy!

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  • Koen (da-zero) (1/5/2011)


    Dave Ballantyne (1/4/2011)


    Had to share ... On facebook one of my wifes friends posts

    On drilling into C++ from C#, I know now why C# is so called "word safe": Bloody hell C++ can be hard work, by comparison, it's like a surly teenager. So far my programs have not run because of the occasional "+" instead of a "<<", and stuff being not in the "correct order". By heck it's pedantic...

    Thrashes on ...

    Yes, you fool , it is the languages fault that you meant bit shift left rather than add.

    Do you even know what bit shift is ?

    Strange. On my keyboard the + and the << are not close together. How do you make a typo like that?

    And a programming language that wants you to put stuff in the correct order? Blasphemy!

    No kidding. You'd almost think it was procedural or something and obeyed the GIGO rule. The nerve.


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  • Any programming language that complains when I try to use 0 as a divisor should be taken off the market and all its install disks buried in the Mariana Trench! EDIT: That includes C++.

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  • Dave Ballantyne (1/4/2011)


    Had to share ... On facebook one of my wifes friends posts

    On drilling into C++ from C#, I know now why C# is so called "word safe": Bloody hell C++ can be hard work, by comparison, it's like a surly teenager. So far my programs have not run because of the occasional "+" instead of a "<<", and stuff being not in the "correct order". By heck it's pedantic...

    Thrashes on ...

    Yes, you fool , it is the languages fault that you meant bit shift left rather than add.

    Do you even know what bit shift is ?

    See you on C++Central.com!

    Are you trying to imply that a lump of plastic, metal, and toxic semiconductors can't understand that it's supposed to do what I want, not what I told it to?

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  • GSquared (1/5/2011)


    Dave Ballantyne (1/4/2011)


    Had to share ... On facebook one of my wifes friends posts

    On drilling into C++ from C#, I know now why C# is so called "word safe": Bloody hell C++ can be hard work, by comparison, it's like a surly teenager. So far my programs have not run because of the occasional "+" instead of a "<<", and stuff being not in the "correct order". By heck it's pedantic...

    Thrashes on ...

    Yes, you fool , it is the languages fault that you meant bit shift left rather than add.

    Do you even know what bit shift is ?

    See you on C++Central.com!

    Are you trying to imply that a lump of plastic, metal, and toxic semiconductors can't understand that it's supposed to do what I want, not what I told it to?

    Definately a PBCAC programming error.

    (problem between chair and computer)

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  • Koen (da-zero) (1/5/2011)


    Definately a PBCAC programming error.

    (problem between chair and computer)

    I've always heard of it as a PEBKAC error. "Problem exists between keyboard and chair."

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  • Brandie Tarvin (1/5/2011)


    Any programming language that complains when I try to use 0 as a divisor should be taken off the market and all its install disks buried in the Mariana Trench! EDIT: That includes C++.

    @=)

    When i get round to it , my blog to-do list includes Divide by zero errors in SSRS.

    If you do it in an expression you get "Infinity" (WTF) in a code segment #error and then in a SQL Statement it throws the error to SSRS correctly , but if its scheduled the agent task completes with success.



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  • Brandie Tarvin (1/5/2011)


    Koen (da-zero) (1/5/2011)


    Definately a PBCAC programming error.

    (problem between chair and computer)

    I've always heard of it as a PEBKAC error. "Problem exists between keyboard and chair."

    That's possible. I was too lazy to google for the correct acronym, so I invented my own 😀

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  • Brandie Tarvin (1/5/2011)


    Any programming language that complains when I try to use 0 as a divisor should be taken off the market and all its install disks buried in the Mariana Trench! EDIT: That includes C++.

    @=)

    What? There are programming languages that don't include the revolutionary new concept of "nullity" created by a self-proclaimed mathematical genius in the UK?

    http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2006/12/nullity_the_nonsense_number_1.php

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  • I would love to get some info/help on this thread I started.

    -Roy

  • GSquared (1/5/2011)


    ...

    Are you trying to imply that a lump of plastic, metal, and toxic semiconductors can't understand that it's supposed to do what I want, not what I told it to?

    It's not limited to a lump of plastic. There are people showing exactly the same behavior.

    Are those some kind of androids then? 😀



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  • Dave Ballantyne (1/5/2011)


    Brandie Tarvin (1/5/2011)


    Any programming language that complains when I try to use 0 as a divisor should be taken off the market and all its install disks buried in the Mariana Trench! EDIT: That includes C++.

    @=)

    When i get round to it , my blog to-do list includes Divide by zero errors in SSRS.

    If you do it in an expression you get "Infinity" (WTF) in a code segment #error and then in a SQL Statement it throws the error to SSRS correctly , but if its scheduled the agent task completes with success.

    Lovely. That is a post I will have to read.

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