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Matt Joiner

teh boosh, 'Straya

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About Me

I like parsimonious code, with simple interfaces and excellent documentation. I'm not interested in enterprise, boiler-plate, or cookie-cutter nonsense. I oppose cruft and obfuscation. My favourite languages are Go, Python and C. I wish I was better at Haskell.

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My favourite posts

  • What are the thread limitations when working on Linux compared to processes for network/IO-bound apps?
  • What should I learn first before heading to C++?
  • How much bad can be done using register variables in C++
  • C and C++ source code profiling tools
  • How big can a malloc be in C?
  • memory use of STL data structures, windows vs. linux
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504
What is the '-->' operator in C/C++?
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How to disable GCC warnings for a few lines of code
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Get day name from datetime
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226
Greenlet Vs. Threads
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219
Using print statements only to debug
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164
How to split a list into pairs in all possible ways
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101
Selectively disable GCC warnings for only part of a translation unit
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94
How to read a file in reverse order?
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82
Is there a quiet version of subprocess.call?
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73
Why do std::string operations perform poorly?
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73
Use static_assert to check types passed to macro
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72
What do the counters in /proc/[pid]/io mean?
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71
Is there a portable way to print a message from the C preprocessor?
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68
Programmatic way to get variable name in C?
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66
What are the thread limitations when working on Linux compared to processes for network/IO-bound apps?
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65
Convert char to int in C and C++
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48
How big can a malloc be in C?
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48
What's the difference between GNU99 and C99 (Clang)?
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47
Why do digits 1, 2 and 3 appear so frequently using C rand() function?
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44
Initialize a string in C to empty string
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40
Checking whether a variable is an integer or not
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38
Golang: how to verify number of processors on which a Go program is running
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38
Use cases for the 'setdefault' dict method
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36
C and C++ source code profiling tools
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35
Non-blocking pipe using popen?
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34
How do I profile C++ code running on Linux?
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33
List environment variables with C in UNIX
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33
How is socket connection being handled in a forked process
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28
how to get process handle from process id?
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Integer overflow in C: standards and compilers
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