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Break a leg! ..or is that only for actors? 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Well, we can start with a chicken leg and take it from there at least. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Have 5!  BTW, I checked your site. Nice resume...I spent a few years in Mandeville, LA at the same time you were there. Now, those folks know how to eat! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Thanks man. And that's awesome about Louisiana. Never really realized a CPian was that close. Small world, eh?
Louisiana is a party state that's for sure. Never understood how much until I left it. So yeah, we're gonna feed you and get your drunk.
Jeremy Falcon
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It will happen. Good karma and positive vibes sent your way. Believe.
(And if it doesn't happen, it's for a very good reason that you will take delight in only later. But I hope it happens.)
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: And if it doesn't happen
Oh, but it will! And thanks man.
Jeremy Falcon
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/ravi
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Wishing you the best !
«Differences between Big-Endians, who broke eggs at the larger end, and Little-Endians gave rise to six rebellions: one Emperor lost his life, another his crown. The Lilliputian religion says an egg should be broken on the convenient end, which is now interpreted by the Lilliputians as the smaller end. Big-Endians gained favor in Blefuscu.» J. Swift, 'Gulliver's Travels,' 1726CE
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Thank you man.
Jeremy Falcon
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Wishing you the best.
And how'd it go?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Thank you man, and I'll know tomorrow. Just happened to be I had other interviews lined up the past couple of days I promised to go to already.
Jeremy Falcon
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I was reading this article that said that we need to yank out C++ code from dangerous areas and rewrite them in Rust. One commenter mentioned that the newest C++ iteration fixes all the problems. Now I had "retired" back when auto_ptr was the hot new thing to take care of the deletion problem, and it seems that there are some new language features to fix the issues that auto_ptr introduced, and of course there is the whole new section of the language to give us the functional programming paradigm (I always like to use that word, LOL). That said, I suppose even with all the new features, it still is possible to blow one's foot off, something that Rust does not seem to allow oneself to do.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/16/death-to-c/[^]
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An article to cancel, only my mind 
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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If you follow good practice when designing your C++ code then your code will be safe.
See :C++ Core Guidelines
I'd rather be phishing!
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I mean seriously... what does Bjarne know!?
Jeremy Falcon
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Modern C++ (C++11 and up) gives you ways to protect yourself, but it doesn't force you to use them. And even then, it just makes it harder, not impossible, to do stupid stuff. But that's true for any language.
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And that's good. Otherwise the language would be slow and too restricted to be of any use.
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You mean like managed languages?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Yes. The worst thing is that some people don't really know what they are doing anymore and turned ignorance into a matter of faith. I have seen guys who were unable to find a memory leak that forced the server to be reset every day. Instead of finding the leak, they insisted on not managing memory and tried to bat the garbage collector into submission.
I perfer C++, because it let's you do what you want and therefore also leaves you with the responsibility. When something goes wrong, it's time to use your head and not to recite religious beliefs.
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Last project I worked on had 250 meg in the source control repository.
The 'performance' problems I encountered were all due to poor design and architecture decisions. Not mine. Best I can suppose it that they were based on ignorance, fantasy and whim. And some of that isn't conjecture when people actually admitted that they did it wrong or did it just to try something new.
I am very thankful that I didn't also need to track down memory leaks.
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I've also seen projects go to crawl trying to locate the memory leak. Every time, it was proven that the 3rd party library was to blame.
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C++ is far from a safe language. Specially if you need to deal with many DLLs, maybe compiled by different C++ compilers. Most of the safety features of C++ are only safe in the context of a single binary or maybe different binaries built by the same compiler. In fact templates in general (used by all kinds of "safe pointers") suffer a lot of optimizations that may break across binaries.
So, is it safe now?
Well, it has much more safety features than in the past. But those are not 100% guaranteed in all scenarios and, well, you can ignore them at any time.
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Avoiding smart pointers and third party fancy stuff, should do the trick. And most of the critical applications runs on embedded systems, that have their own simplified, hardware specific compilers.
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You can blow your foot off with Rust too, but it's a bit more explicit.
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I dont like "safe" languages, because all safety features are brakes. C++ is dangerous and thats why faster than the rest. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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