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It really does not matter what country you hail from, paying respect to your country's fallen men and women is important.
This is a memorial day for all people across the world that have died in service to their country.
modified 31-May-21 7:15am.
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With 4 serving and 2 retired, I care. Check out [^]
I cannot wait for 3pm local.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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To absent friends
![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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sigh truth
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I was at Lowes today, and they played Taps over the PA system while I was there. They also had a small memorial in the parking lot.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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As it's a bank holiday I assume there will be no CCC today.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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It can't be a bank holiday.
It's warm, sunny, and not raining ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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What ! in Wales !!!
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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See? Can't be a Bank Holiday can it? 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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When I lived in Caernarfon they had a saying, if you can't see the mountains, it's raining, if you can, it's about to start.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Mildly NSFW but not really. Use of a b word but not the most offensive one.
Recruiters[^]
Real programmers use butterflies
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I wonder if they sell used cars on the side? 
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Recruiters are people who have failed the integrity test for engineers, the honesty test for politicians, and the intelligence test for bankers, but ask one to trust that they are honest brokers.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I swear I know the recruiter!
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Why is he not wearing a red uniform? They're for disposable staff; like Temps, you use them up, then toss them in the dumpster...
Will Rogers never met me.
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I taught myself C++14 and C++17 by writing one core piece of code - my pixel template.
To this day, it's some of the code I'm the most proud of. The things it can do at compile time are pretty impressive.
const auto col = bmpa_color::red;
col.channelr<channel_name::A>(.5);
This for example, sets the alpha channel to make a red color half transparent. It does so in a pixel binary format that is completely arbitrary and user defined, and does so entirely at compile time, yielding a color value with the appropriate binary footprint. All of the bit shifting and other nonsense that makes this possible is all computed by the compiler.
I tried writing an article (actually two, really) on it but I fear it wasn't well understood by people.
C++ template arcana is bloody hard to teach. The only way I could learn it well is practice practice practice until I could intuit the syntax because trying to remember all the rules by rote is extremely difficult if not impossible, at least for my mind.
Accelerated C++ by Andrew Koenig and Barbara Moo is still the best book to introduce people to generic programming in C++ in my opinion, but it doesn't teach the newest features, nor does it teach super complicated constructs.
So for starters, just so I can have something to refer people like my buddy to when he wants to learn this stuff, do any of you C++ devs out there have a book to recommend on generic programming with particular emphasis on metaprogramming, type lists and the like?
Also, are there any really useful tricks out there you've learned regarding this type of coding?
Real programmers use butterflies
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Alexandrescu's book[^] was pioneering in this area. While looking for it, I came across this one[^], which seems to be more recent and focused on the topic.
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Yeah but are they good?
For every good C++ book out there I find 10 bad ones, hence why I'm looking for recommendations.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Sorry, can't help you there. I looked at the first one when learning C++, so I don't recall much because it wasn't what I needed at the time. I'll probably get the second one when I'm buying another one on voodoo.
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I gave up on C++ books years ago. The best help I get are from various sites like Bartek's coding blog[^] and just trying stuff. (Stack Overflow sometimes has great answers, but they are few and far between.)
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I don't really do books myself either, but in this case I felt like they might be useful.
I'll take a look at that blog, thanks.
Real programmers use butterflies
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