Now write the screenplay!

Nonsense.

No one should ever have to work with C++ metaprogramming in their work.

It should not be encouraged. It's a horrible dead end. Sadly it isn't the only dead end in computer science.

It's also that C++ requires so many workarounds for template metaprogramming, so many help libraries, so many types, that writing, say template metaprogramming library that plays nice with Boost takes an infinitude of time and detail.

Syntax isn't the majority of the problem. The rest of it is even worse.

someone was asking for the luajit implementer, Mike Pall, to add copying data structures as something optimized by the compiler and he was told that not sharing structures was a "code smell"

Oh God. The implementer is so out of touch and focused on low level efficiency that he doesn't recognize the basics of reliable programming.

I've done that sort of metaprogramming. Years ago I wrote a compile-time Lisp interpreter. It's a HORRIBLE language.

Look, say you have some advanced feature. You could write a library in scheme - it will take you 1 day to a week.

You could write it in C++ templates. It will have a worse feature set than the scheme version, it will be much less readable (not that scheme is readable) and much harder to use. It will have unusable error messages. And a mockup version will take you months to write.

Getting your mockup embedded in Boost and working well with it will take the help of a bunch of experts and a two or three times as much work.

If you want it included in the Boost libraries, you'll need a couple years of work integrating it and getting it approved.

Horrible.

old stuff is old

in 1953.

That said, Barry Rubin was a disappointment to me. He spent the last few years of his life inciting the tea party tards on PJ Media throwing mad tantrums over Obama, afraid that anyone who doesn't seem 100% deferential must be working for Satan himself and bringing the final Holocaust.

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only because they fight their wars IN their neighbors borders. See Lebanon and Syria. Also note that they manage to not have a civil war against another sect, see Syria.

Ok, they're also not as culturally backward as Egypt or some of their neighbors, unless you count their leadership.

Actually the problem with Iran has nothing to do with the US. Iran and similar countries are thoroughly dysfunctional without needing any reference to the US, see Syria.

All utter failures of authoritarian messes and delusions need to declare normal countries their enemy, otherwise their captive populations would demand a system like ours that wasn't Kafka's worst nightmare.

president caused ebola.

educational materials to be published at all.

I buy a reference book and only read the chapter I need for a current job, then the author is only compensated for 1/20th of what I paid Amazon and Amazon gets the rest?

Someone sue Amazon publishing so hard that they can't find their god damn feet ok?

Not true. I'm a generation after the Beatles and all of my friends in high school knew all of their music and had all of their lyrics memorized.

And if you really care you can get good digital copies of their music though the sources are odd. For instance the best copy of Abby Road is from the initial Japanese CD release (one of the first CDs ever made)... They were slapped down and told they didn't have the right to release it by the parent company, but since digital is eternal, there are flac files out there.

A few overplayed artists aren't on Apple, nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Also you can't even get good version of, say "The Beatles" on cd since the record companies made them fatal victims of the loudness war after stealing their music.

I buy lots of Dells. But they usually break in the first month and have to be fixed or replace.

I know mine must be an anomalous experience or they'd be out of business. But the do sell a lot of defective electronics. Maybe they don't do any burn in.