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Earthquake Update and How to use your Water Heater as a Reservoir :: The Brush Blog

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The Founding Fathers of the Silicon Valley. Yes, my credit card number *does* have spaces! Endian solution for C. Earthquake Update and How to use your Water Heater as a Reservoir. Status update and some thoughts. We hope this finds you well. Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with all our fellow citizens of Christchurch and New Zealand who’ve been affected in some way by the recent major 6.3 earthquake in Christchurch. How to use your water heater as a reservoir. We all know by now that lack of cle...

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Ten things I love && hate about C :: The Brush Blog

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The Founding Fathers of the Silicon Valley. Yes, my credit card number *does* have spaces! Endian solution for C. Ten things I love && hate about C. Recently a guy asked “Why Should I Ever Use C Again? 8212; I don’t agree with him, but at least he did say in passing that it’s okay to use C if you’re “coding on a thumb-sized computer” or bootstrapping a language. And I’ll add: Or writing device drivers. Or platform-specific kernels. But anyway …. And I’d come from the world of DOS and TSRs. Is easily the ...

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Save a Gmail message to hard disk :: The Brush Blog

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The Founding Fathers of the Silicon Valley. Yes, my credit card number *does* have spaces! Endian solution for C. Save a Gmail message to hard disk. Often you want to save a formatted Gmail message to your hard disk. Maybe it’s a license key or some design documentation that you want to save in version control. You can print the whole conversation as a pdf, but not just one message. And .html would be better than pdf. Well, here’s how. Ugly if it is an html message displayed in plain-text format. That&#8...

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Endian solution for C :: The Brush Blog

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The Founding Fathers of the Silicon Valley. Yes, my credit card number *does* have spaces! Endian solution for C. Endian solution for C. Are numbers stored big-end or little-end first? C programmers have to byte-swap manually to deal with this. Portable code becomes icky. The full ickiness is illustrated in Intel’s excellent Endianness White Paper. Suppose we’re dealing with a USB protocol setup packet:. Struct setup { char bmRequestType, bRequest; short wValue, wIndex, wLength; };. The following solutio...

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Archives :: The Brush Blog

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The Founding Fathers of the Silicon Valley. Yes, my credit card number *does* have spaces! Endian solution for C. The Brush Blog archives. For what they’re worth. A month-by-month list of all our previous posts. Click on any title to go to that post or to comment on it. Or return to the blog home page. Yes, my credit card number *does* have spaces! Masterminds of Programming (13). C#'s async/await compared to protothreads in C (5). Save a Gmail message to hard disk (5). Endian solution for C (2). Can mod...

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C++ for C programmers, part 1 of 2 :: The Brush Blog

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The Founding Fathers of the Silicon Valley. Yes, my credit card number *does* have spaces! Endian solution for C. C for C programmers, part 1 of 2. There’s no such programming language as C/C . C and C are two different beasts. I’m not going to argue here about which is better. For small or embedded projects, the complexities. Of C can get in the way. For larger projects, some of the features. Of C are very useful. I’m simply going to list the features C adds to C. Int read(int bufsize =512). For smart p...

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Ten quirky things about Python :: The Brush Blog

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The Founding Fathers of the Silicon Valley. Yes, my credit card number *does* have spaces! Endian solution for C. Ten quirky things about Python. Just thought I’d share a bunch of neat (and weird) things I’ve noticed about the Python programming language. You can chain comparisons. Assert 3.14 pi 3.15. It’s a neat equivalent of. Assert pi 3.14 and pi 3.15. That you can’t do in most other languages. Default values are only evaluated once, at compile-time, not run-time. Try. For x in list: s = x. Is a floa...

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C#’s async/await compared to protothreads in C++ :: The Brush Blog

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The Founding Fathers of the Silicon Valley. Yes, my credit card number *does* have spaces! Endian solution for C. C#’s async/await compared to protothreads in C. For different parts of my job, I get to work in both high level and very low level software development — developing a Windows 8 app in C# on the one hand, and writing embedded C code for an microcontroller with 4KB of RAM on the other. In our embedded codebase we’ve been using our C version. There’s a great answer. Is available at the language ...

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Masterminds of Programming :: The Brush Blog

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The Founding Fathers of the Silicon Valley. Yes, my credit card number *does* have spaces! Endian solution for C. My wife gave me a real geek book for Christmas:. By two guys named Federico Biancuzzi and Shane Warden. In it they interview the creators of 17 well-known or historically important programming languages. And the publishers considered translation too expensive. If you’re a programmer, definitely go and buy the book. This review got rather long. C , Bjarne Stroustrup. A very good idea. As usual...