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5teveH wrote: If you had to pick a song that described you, what would it be?
Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
(SFW, unless your boss hates life)
Jeremy Falcon
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger, "Better Days" No Dice Album
Great guitar solo from Pete Ham
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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ELO and Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu - my favorite ELO music
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Billy Joel “You may be right, I may be crazy. But it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for”
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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It just might be this one: The I-95 Song[^] NSFW so use the headphones. I actually got a DJ to play this one at a family friendly bar in beautiful, downtown Cheyenne, WY in 1989, and it got quite a bit of applause. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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I think I got a new favourite song.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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Hanging on in quiet desperation...
pibbuR who has written his first post on CodeProject
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We Gotta Get Out of This Place from The Animals
or
Highway to Hell from ACDC
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AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
It covers both me and my coding style 
(I had to reply to this one. I've lurked for years.)
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Depending on the day, either Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel) or King of Pain (The Police)
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"I've always been crazy, but it's kept me from going insane."
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Waylon-F*ucking-Jennings FTW
(And to all the normals here, yes - that's the right way to say his name.)
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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It's a toss-up between "Oh Lord It's Hard to Be Humble" (Mac Davis), and "Take This Job and Shove It" (Johnny Paycheck)...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
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As an incredibly enthusiastic user of C++ from its very first release, I've expressed this (personal) opinion a number of times over recent years: C++ has lost its way - it now takes more time, learning, effort and skill to make good, efficient use of C++ than it takes to solve the problems one is using it for.
A caveat: I am thinking specifically of business tasks and related domains - I accept that for the most cutting edge stuff near to the metal it still offers the one of the best overall effort/performance ratios.
In part, the effort to maintain backwards compatability at almost any cost (despite the fiasco of i(o)streams and manipulators between versions 1,2 and 3) whilst adding ever more features adds huge amounts of technical debt that then has to be fought against in other ways.
This article I think demonstrates this nicely Speeding Up C++ Build Times | Figma Blog[^]
Discuss! (ducks for cover...)
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Quote: However, there are other common solutions that we also employed to reduce build times, including local caching, remote caching, and precompiled headers.
From the rest of the writing, it seems they haven't implemented precompiled headers correctly, because all their efforts to eliminate redundant headers amount to very little savings if the precompiled header gets each precompilation unit added once and then not again with additional redeclarations. At least that is the way I understand precompiled headers, and they have saved me a bunch of time in the past. I wish they would have talked about that aspect more as my understanding could be deepened.
PS - Mike Winiberg wrote: In part, the effort to maintain backwards compatability at almost any cost (despite the fiasco of i(o)streams and manipulators between versions 1,2 and 3) whilst adding ever more features adds huge amounts of technical debt that then has to be fought against in other ways.
This article I think demonstrates this nicely Speeding Up C++ Build Times | Figma Blog[^]
I don't see that article supporting your assertion in any meaningful way. All it seems to be saying is that their coders haven't kept their headers clean, and often included unneeded headers that they had to take out. That doesn't seem to be speaking about the difficulties inherent in modern C++.
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