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redi is currently certified at Journeyer level.

Name: Jonathan Wakely
Member since: 2005-04-07 13:39:20
Last Login: 2008-05-16 13:13:19

Notes: Mix equal parts of C++, UNIX and Free Software. Bring to the boil and serve.

My open-source contributions are currently limited to occasional GCC and libstdc++ patches in my spare time. I'm a sporadically-active member of the ACCU and the BSI C++ panel that represents the UK on the C++ Standards Committee.

Projects

Lead Developer on PStreams
Wholly Discordian Episkopos on The Universe
Lead Developer on mysqlcppapi
Helper on GCC: GNU Compiler Collection
Helper on mod_virgule
Contributor on mysql++
Developer on libstdc++

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22 Apr 2008 »

movement, brilliant! Humm, Pastor Roger Byrd ... "Roger" is so close to "Roget" I think he may be a thesaurus and therefore doesn't recognise god.

ncm, thanks for sharing that. As an ex-physicist who is very skeptical of the entire astronomy/cosmology field I think the poster's explanation for the behaviour makes a lot of sense.

17 Apr 2008 »

First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is a mountain.

The three stages of expertise

Ruby is a cult.

You can ignore one or two fanboys who want to teach you why they're right and you're wrong, but after the hundredth one raving about Ruby's unique features it just gets laughable.

Hint: Smalltalk. C'mon, kids, try to explain why Ruby is good without the rhetoric, you're just exposing your ignorance.

1 Apr 2008 »

I'm off to the ACCU conference tomorrow and have just bought an Asus Eee on which I plan to install GHC in time for Simon Peyton-Jones' talk. I'm pretty impressed with it so far - it meets all my criteria for a convenient way to ssh to my home PC (cheap, lightweight, wireless, *nix, proper keyboard, fits in my larger pockets.)

Over the past week I've been porting STLsoft to Sun's compilers and Solaris. Pantheios now works with Sun compilers on Linux or Solaris. Once I submit those patches my next step is to get it working with GCC on Solaris. I must say, Solaris system headers are a lot nicer to read than GNU ones. Solving a glibc include-order bug happened in spite of having access to the full source code, not because of it!

19 Mar 2008 »

Hank Paulson, who I had assumed to be a fairly well-educated man, said yesterday the US economy is in a "downcline". This is rather conturbing information, and a matter of real discern. We must keep our crongers fissed that it does not become a more serious deturn, I suppose.

Thinking about that stupid word make me regret recently coining the term "deducerator" for C++ functions such as std::back_inserter and std::make_pair. Although it was suggested as a joke, I do think it's more memorable than Object Generator, or the less specific "creator function" used by Matthew Wilson in his books. I think functional languages call them constructors, but that would obviously be confusing in C++.

jtauber, that's due to GNU bash. Bash remembers that you changed dir via the symlink, and preserves that information in your pwd, which is why bash's pwd command has a -P option to see the physical pwd, not symbolic one.

20 Feb 2008 »

cannam, to uncertify someone just certify them as Observer. You make a very good point otherwise, making it optional would be an improvement.

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