New Testingstan

i always find it funny that when a language apologist tells you "now you don't have worry about memory management/types/const/whatever" what they usually mean is you can't "worry" about those things when you need them, essentially taking away "You don't have to worry about ...

I've finally gotten my Xbox 360 wired up to the internet (the older cream coloured model). How long will Xbox 360 games maintain online communities after their recent obsolescence? It sounds like GTA V 's online presence bought the PS3 and Xbox 360 more time as secondary games consoles (and PS4 and...

Type inference is indeed awesome. I can't wait for my workplace to move onto a C++11 compliant compiler just to get that feature and make using templates & iterators on templated containers tolerable. I wouldn't use it for simple types, too much ambiguity for too little gain, but std::<container...

Typing and the the approximate lack thereof was one of the things that always drove me barmy about PHP before I gave up on the whole deal and went back to my C++ ghetto. Simple things like declaring a function to be bool IsSomeShitICareAbout(std::string& someShit) turned into a mess as I had to ...

Shoplifting is an incredibly minor crime.

I would like to apologise for reacting in a way I would in person with mates I socialise with as a drunken fool. My text doesn't offer the body language cues I would in person and makew it all seem far more harsh than I really mean. I really mean that. Text doesn't give the cues I'm used to when tal...

Fuck all of that. The 2011 riots wouldn't have even been noticed by the vast bulk of the country if the media hadn't ran wall to wall coverage of them. We've seen far worse without assigning that sort of power to the authorities and will undoubtedly see far worse again in the future. The whole thing...

If the Commons keep passing this bill, the Lords will eventually accept it. They can only hold it for so long before convention kicks in and we face a proper constitutional crisis.