Sometimes you want to generate a series of random numbers in which no numbers are repeated.

After googling high and low for such a solution, I decided to write one.

Without further ado, here is a C++ function that will return "random" numbers in a sequence in which each individual number is guaranteed to be unique:

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Cynical, misanthropic male, 29, looking for soul mate but certain not to find her. Drop me a note. I'll call you, we'll talk and I'll ask you out to dinner where I'll probably spend more than I can afford in a feeble attempt to impress you. Then we'll realize we have absolutely nothing in common and we'll go our separate ways, more embittered and ( Read more... )

"If reality could be predicated of a world, it would be a self-existent cosmos and the Buddha teaches that there is really no such thing."

Welcome to hell.

 

Overriding the "new" operator in C++ can be tricky. If you have any globals that call new in their constructors, there are issues with things like global initialization order. Seemingly innocent things like "if (GFoo)" aren't reliable if GFoo is a global ( Read more... )

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A company named Parallax, which has been around for ages making cool little microcontrollers for robotics projects and such, has developed an eight-core 32-bit chip and a very cool demo board along with it ( Read more... )

I just made a Coke Blak float. It definitely qualifies as one of the strangest things I have ever tasted.