fancydriving
Re:Duolingo, learn a new language while translating the web
on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @03:43AM (#4135996)
I tried this out because I know a little French and would like to know more.
I was first put off becuase when "Je suis de Anchorage" (which I'm pretty sure is not idiomatic anyway) was expected, "Je suis d'Anchorage" (which is correct within the scope of the already unidiomatic expectations) was not allowed. Granted, French is still in beta.
Then the audio portions produced... no sound. It's a bold move for a web site to depend on audio. I recommend making sure it works first.
Re:The state of space in 2055
on Sunday May 27, 2012 @12:39AM (#4029260)
And if we're mining asteroids at that point, there's no need to toss the stations into space. Just build them there.
Re:Metaprogramming custom control structures in C
on Monday March 12, 2012 @10:46PM (#3696760)
I think a good rule of thumb is to only use the preprocessor to generate code that you would be comfortable writing yourself. Spaghetti produced by macros is still spaghetti.
The article reminded me of queue.h from BSD (http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/sys/queue.h?re...), but those macros expand to readable code.