The world has shown repeatedly and conclusively that it doesn't care about your unmeasurable "feels", no matter how many high-profile PR battles are started. The majority of the human race /do not want/ to care that your feelings were hurt by something someone said, somewhere... maybe. You see if we have to care about your feels when it is about genitalia-speech, then we have to care about your feels when the speech is about your belief in the FSM, or Jesus, or vaccine-causes-autism, or Mohammed, or Microsoft-vs-Linux-vs-Apple-vs-Google, or any one of a number of things *you* believe in.

The world has already decided that peoples feelings about speech are not important enough to care about. You are advocating limiting someone's non-harmful free speech while using the platform of free speech to do so. I suggest that you first follow your own advice and keep quiet; if that is not appealing to you then consider why no one else (i.e. the rest of the world) finds it appealing.

PopeRatzo posted his results some time back about the level of harrassment for men and women on 8-chan (or similar, I don't remember). He displayed conclusively that (perceived) men received a multiple of the number of harassment than (perceived) women.

Because batched data entry with punch-cards is exactly like Java programming!

"He wanks as high as any in Wome" :-)

You have learned that your point of view is not as popular as you thought it was. You may want to re-examine your definition of "socially moronic".

Whether it [causing offence without any other harm] should be illegal or not is a different question - right now it is perfectly legal as you imply, hence many, if not most, sane people fall on the side of "free speech, but no incitement" rather than "free speech, but spare my feels".

That's a hypothetical future - right now the harm cannot be measured, and so is (correctly, IMHO) ignored by most legal systems.

Offense is nothing like physical force, which is what a water balloon imparts.

What if you take offense to me saying "god doesn't exist"? Should I then be automatically in the wrong because you found my speech offensive?

They can still save themselves without giving it away for free. I'd buy Windows 10 if the price was around 20USD for the full non-crippled run-as-many-processes-and-users-as-you-want version, rather than 100USD for the crippled home-user-who-only-runs-one-program-at-a-time. As it stands, I've got Win7, won't move off it due to their stupid pricing but will gladly upgrade to Win10 for free if it is anything like Win7. If it wasn't free, I am willing to pay up to 20USD for Win10, but won't "upgrade" to Win10 if the upgrade is to a crippled home version of Win10.

I do not recall public transit as an option in the original SimCity. Nor in SC2k, come to think of it.

You may be on to something there - it worked the same way for bitcoins - "Only smart people who can understand the math can see why BTC are a good idea. Can you see?"...

I do not disagree with any of the above; what you said was:

and what I said in reply to that was:

I do not expect to see widespread (hell, even in limited numbers above a single percentage point) challenges of discrimination in court. Firstly, in most jurisdictions it is legal for employers to discriminate based on criminal record. Secondly, if you found a jurisdiction which makes it illegal to discriminate against ex-cons, how the hell would you prove a particular ex-con was discriminated against?

I mean, even with the whole organised PR campaign against discrimination of women, we have yet to see a successful case of an employer discriminating against females.

That's true for all professions, excepting the star/celebrity ones.

Good luck proving discrimination. Hell, half the stories here are about systemic discrimination in IT against females, and even that has yet to be proved successfully, in court, or in any peer reviewed journal. There is no PR war over systemic discrimination against ex-cons, and yet you still expect to see an employer prosecuted for discrimination of ex-cons?

I just finished Raising Steam last week. I count his books amongst my more valuable possessions and I've read more than one more than once. When my first wife left, she took half the Terry Pratchett books with her, and just to annoy me she took every alternate one :-)

I always used to joke that if anything happened to Sir Terry I'll have to write my own books to read, not so funny anymore. Anyone else out there writes like him? Any suggestions?

Reread my solution - there's more than two arguments. I predicted you'd change the constraints once they were met, but you aren't even doing that, you're ignoring your own spec.

Firstly, in the real world you don't get to change languages based on something that is easily fixable in the current language with three extra lines of code (6 extra lines if you fix the errors in your spec). Secondly, I adhered to the spec - you said two local arguments passed by copy - that's what I did. If there were additional restrictions I would have met those two, because those of us with real CS degrees from a real university already know that one turing-complete language is equivalent to another turing-complete language.

Then you should have specified in your spec, in which case add these three lines to the solution which now addresses your extra constraints:

void *kickoff_twin (struct foo_t *array) {
do_something (array[0], array[1]);
}

That's what your one line example did, and I've already read the previous poster handing your ass to you because you did not realise that you made this mistake in the first place. Since the spec called for compatibility with the C++ example you gave, I gave you bug-for-bug compatibility.

Your "challenge" has thus far had 3 different successful solutions. They all adhered to your requirements. And, as a matter of fact, I just have you 3 extra lines that even adhere to your brand-new made-up-because-you-got-your-ass-handed-to-you requirements.

Challenge accepted, see here for my first go that satisfies all the bolded conditions. Any further conditions you impose now will make you look even more like an ass than you already do for posing such a fanboyism challenge. Note well: there are literally only four lines of code to achieve this - I posted the other lines to give the readers some context.

struct foo_t {
size_t one;
size_t two;
};

void *do_something (struct foo_t *array)
{
printf ("%zu, %zu\n", array[0].one, array[1].two);
}

#define THREAD_CREATE(fptr, type, a, b) do {\

// Start of challenge
type array[] = { a, b };\
pthread_t tmp;\
pthread_create (&tmp, NULL, (void *(*) (void*))do_something, array);\
pthread_detach (tmp);\

// End of challenge, you're welcome
} while (0)

int main (void)
{

...
struct foo_t first, second;
...
THREAD_CREATE (do_something, struct foo_t, first, second);

...
...
}

As you can see above, no deficiency found - in the actual real world, as opposed to the one populated by inexperienced fanboys like yourself, the above solution would not be discarded from the solution set if it meant changing the codebase from C to C++.

You can now be an adult about the whole thing, accept that what you can do in C++ can be done in a readable manner in C as well. I don't think you will, though - I have a feeling you'll come up with another idiotic "C++ can do this, can C do this?" question, at which point I will once again be happy to smack you in the face with a solution like I did just now.

Consider yourself schooled.