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	<title>His Deeds Are Dust &#187; Poor choices</title>
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	<description>surveying sub-optimal solutions</description>
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		<title>The undervalued bool</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A colleague of mine wanted to reduce the repetition in this fragment of C++: funcA(false); funcB(false); funcC(false); funcD(false); funcA(true); funcB(true); funcC(true); funcD(true); and, in a burst of sheer genius, came up with this solution: for (bool status = false; status]]></description>
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		<title>Security through perversity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The corporate Information Services overlords have recently introduced a single sign-on solution for our intranet applications, CA SiteMinder. Somewhere along the lines, a discussion must have taken place about a feature of that pesky Mozilla Firefox, helpfully remembering passwords. Although we have to sign on to even access our internal network, there must have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The magic of #ifdef</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The beauty of the preprocessor #ifdef . . . #endif directives in C and C++ is that there are so many ways to abuse them. I&#8217;ve been working on some vintage code (at least 15 years old) that provides a model for how not to do things. The compilation is controlled by no fewer than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The not so super SuperDisk</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>flo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1997, I bought a new PC, and specified that I wanted a SuperDisk drive on it. It seemed like a good idea at the time. The LS-120 drive was a reasonable alternative to the Zip drive, and it had the advantage of being able to read 3½&#8221; floppy disks as well as the 120 MB [...]]]></description>
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