C programming resources:
GNU C Function and Macro Index -- glibc reference manual
The C Book -- nice online learner guide
Current ISO draft standard
CCAN -- new CPAN like open source library repository
3 (different) GNU debugger tutorials: #1 -- #2 -- #3
cpwiki -- our wiki on sourceforge
Keep eating your vegies and you too will find yourself sexually attracted to beautiful and smart women when the time comes.
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
Last edited by zacs7; 12-30-2009 at 01:23 AM.
Either that or it means that performance on the Mensa test is not strongly predicted by level of formal education. I haven't taken the test, but I would imagine that very few of the questions are the sort of thing taught in school anyway. If that were the case, anybody who did well in school would do well on the test, so the implication is false in BOTH directions
Code://try //{ if (a) do { f( b); } while(1); else do { f(!b); } while(1); //}
IQ tests, in general, I think are flawed. I always scored well at them (which is pretty odd, in and of itself, actually), but I have noticed that (1) they do require some degree of context, whether it be cultural, social, or otherwise, and (2) the "correct" answer to the question is often not *really* what you had in mind. I do understand that no test is perfect, but something tells me that they could be a lot better. To that end, I really don't place too much value on an IQ score, Mensa membership, etc. I prefer to use my own heuristics and intuition to gauge a person's intelligence, anyway.