C++ is so good at being simultaneously wonderful and terrible. Rarely is the terrible aspect due to being too restrictive, or due to some silly omission, but sometimes this is the case.

I adore pointers to data members. They're very useful for some kinds of generic programming. I won't try to explain why they're useful, just show their use.

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I have been asked for my chili paneer recipe several times. I have now put it on the Internets. Along with a lot of rambling. Enjoy!

The ideal choice for women with fussy husbands and complaining children. Now your family will demand all the vegetables they once frowned upon. BMC Sabzi Masala adds taste to the wholesome but otherwise considered ‘bore’ vegetables by your family. Just add a little to your routine cooking and see the twinkle in their eyes.

I am writing in reply to an opinion piece published in your paper recently which culminated with:
They have come for the trade-unionists; what is to stop them from coming for me?
The writer of this piece is ghoulishly appropriating the struggles of trade-unionists to glorify his own life. Of course nobody is going to come for him, he's in such a ( Read more... )

So I posted back in January about changing my tickets coming home from Boston on the Boston to Chicago leg of the train. Amtrak had a bedroom price online that was lower than what I had paid for a roomette and so I called up and changed my tickets. The agent confirmed that I wouldn't have to pay anything extra, that they'd done an even exchange, ( Read more... )

I finally understand why the United States is so gung-ho about doing whatever the RIAA and MPAA ask. It suddenly made sense when I saw a headline saying that James Cameron, having gone to the deepest depths, is now going to set himself up mining asteroids ( Read more... )

Thank you. Thank you for reading, if you read, the things that I write. Thank you for letting me imagine that you do, or that you might have in the past. Whether you might have skimmed it or read it deeply ( Read more... )

I found myself looking at my fingernails. Not at the nails themselves, but the nail beds. The half-circle at the base of them, closest to my wrist, in sharp, pale contrast to the to the purple-and-pink just past it, towards the ends of my fingers. From there to the tips of my fingers, the color goes paler and then darker once again, before the ( Read more... )

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