Posts by Rashakil Fol

Yep, it's C++. It gives you better ability to make and use abstractions than almost any other language and better ability to micromanage the low level than any other language (and that includes C).

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Software Development is something I enjoy but I feel like I am more of an ideas person and may not get all the satisfaction I require from work by simply writing code for years on end.

This is code talk that says you suck at programming. So I perused your posting history, and four months ago you couldn't write a recursive factorial function without asking for help. So indeed you do suck at programming and computer science in general.

What you need to do right now if you want to not suck at your job, be it in a management role that you eventually get, or a job as a programmer, is to stop sucking at programming. That's the path you need to venture on, otherwise you will be an incompetent who gets in other people's way. I don't know if you will actually achieve this, some people manage to improve themselves and others do not. Another option is to avoid software development as a career altogether.

Never mind. I can't see the point of replying to a question like this. These terms are obviously not specific to some particular sort of customer relationship, so your question is nonsensical.

It's a^n b c^(n+2), and if you can't even use basic parentheses how are you even human?

PROTIP: a^n b c^n c c is the same thing.

There is no restriction that the numbers must be integers for question 1.

Proof please.

That's the definition of "negative". FFS what did you think negative meant?

This is just wrong. If it were true then i would equal 1 or -1.

Instead of talking about stuff you don't have a clue about, you should try not talking about stuff you don't have a clue about. It's a good idea.

pyTony, on the other hand, manages to talk about mathematics without just making stuff up and then arguing with standard definitions.

And no it would simply mean that abs(i) equals 1.

Obviously it's PHP.

I only met two university graduates who could not program their way out of a paper bag (in this environment). The only programmer I met who was not certified was a complete failure as a programmer.

Let me get this straight. Not counting the set of programmers who have certifications but no degree, you have met exactly three bad programmers.

And you have only met one programmer who didn't have a certification in something.

I have an alternate theory to explain your experiences: You're incapable of discerning between good and bad programmers.

Would you care to back up those sweeping generalizations with some actual facts?

Uh, they already are facts. You should try coming up with facts to support whatever beliefs you have. But I guess your beliefs are privileged, because they're yours, and they don't need to have any basis in reality.

Because in reality, the only meaningful predictor of a person's ability to code is examples of past code they've written and the ability to solve trivial problems (such as FizzBuzz or turning a binary search tree into a doubly linked list, in place) on a whiteboard. After all, there are MIT grads who can't grok recursion and there are people with associates degrees who are way better than most people here. There exist no institutions in the world that accurately label people with a "this is a good programmer" stamp, except for the institution of looking at their code on github and asking them to write code on the whiteboard.

The main disadvantage of OO modeling is that it implies a vastly inferior type system.

Memory limitations? What are you smoking? You're 100% wrong, there are no memory costs to OOP.

Speaking of worthless contrived examples, here's mine:

An O(n \log n) algorithm:

for (int i = 0, e = int(n * log(n)); i < e; ++i) {
    printf("ho ");
}

How illuminating!

all comparison-based sorting algorithms need at least O(n\log n) comparisons in order to complete the sort for most inputs.

This is not true at all. Comparison-based sorting algorithms need at least \Omega(n\log n) comparisons.

print 55

What? No it can't. You're totally confused and I don't know where to begin except to say look at what the flyweight pattern is.

This is the dumbest news story ever written in the history of Daniweb.

Ah, there we go.

my question is
what does n - 1 mean (n minus 1)

That's the same kind of minus as the minus key on your calculator. Just put n - 1 into Mr. Calculator and you'll calculate running time.

what does n/2 mean (n over 2 or n divided by 2)

That's the same thing as n ÷ 2.

because stuff like this is being mentioned am soo confused when the being used i need to know what they mean, and why is it being used and when would you use them..

Yeah, it can get confusing, but you don't need to know this low level stuff. Just use your calculator.

Bugga - The Google Go language isn't in the Ubuntu synaptic package manager so tons of commands need to be done to install the Go compiler. And I can tell you now very few people would want to do that so this language will never be popular at this rate with a command line interface to install and an endless installation process depending on the OS. I might just stick with Java.

Honestly you deserve to be stuck with Java.

The real value of a forum like Daniweb is in how it helps the people who search for problems in the future. The needs of the OP are immaterial.

The reason it exists is because somebody put it there. Supporting the marking of threads as solved is like supporting the death penalty: innocent people will get executed, and threads with bad solutions will marked as solved.

Look, I could be trolling you back, or I could take your arguments to pieces, or quote recognized authorities and studies that confirm the lack of safety in C++, or point you to references on qualities of good programming language design... But would that get us anywhere? Would that make you accept any argument of any "authority" other than yourself? Or make you start talking to me on equal footing? Probably not.

The trouble with trying to argue with me is that you don't disagree with me about C++.

Edit: What you disagree with, apparently, is the practice of providing reasons for the things you say.

You don't know me, so you assume I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm not bashing about C++ because I don't know it. I'm doing it because I do know it. (I've been a C++ system programmer for 10+ years.)

I don't care about you or your appeal to self-authority. I'm going to assume you don't know what you're talking about because most people don't.

And stop having a chip on your shoulder, and I was comparing C++'s safety merits relative to Python's, because there are some.

To say "If you know how to use C++, it's a very safe language" is a no-statement. Everything, even assembler, is safe if "you know how to use it". That's not the point about safety in programming languages.

That's not true. Even if you "know how to use" assembler, there's still a high probability of yourself creating a memory error. Unless you're using a statically typed assembly language or something. If you "know how to use" C++, you can reduce the probability of memory errors in most of your code to zero. You of course have to restrict yourself to a subset of the language and standard library -- at mundane levels such as avoiding certain functions like std::vector's operator[], and at other levels such as using smart pointer types, avoiding pointers entirely, using non-cyclic data structures, just tolerating some copying, and avoiding STL-style iterators.

"C++ provides the best resource safety of any mainstream language"??? Yeah, dangling pointers, memory …

4I just get tired of watching you post and complaining about what other people say, -rep them, down vote them, and generally antagonize people because you want to be an ass that day all the while you're contributing little.

I just don't want people to mark threads solved.

Please do us a favor and contribute or shut up.

Why do you get so butthurt when you see people with different worldviews than yours?

Well, since you're unwilling to think, I'm not going to do it for you.

This poll is rubbish, how the hell am i winning?

You are popular the way Bill O'Reilly is popular.

Firstly, me...secondly, a fair few of the solvers i've seen here on the boards.

Really, you and other people? Who would have thought?

Marking a thread as solved indicates to others that the problem no longer requries attention,

No, it indicates that people think it no longer requires attention, but adds a presumption of the correctness of the answer -- and frequently a thread's OP isn't qualified to judge that matter.

and a reminder to mark seems to be a very common closing comment.

So?

Remember to mark the thread as solved.

Who cares?

Try understanding what the code does. This will allow you to find the fault. I suspect that I have made some stupid error in it, which you can easily figure out... :)

Bah, I meant to uprep this post with "complete win" while downrepping the first, but forgot you could only rep somebody once per day. :(

A Taylor series isn't really a good way to compute this function unless you're looking for asymptotic accuracy around a particular point, rather than general accuracy along the whole thing. Also, it's a good idea to start by folding the number down to the interval [0,pi]. But suppose we did want to go with a Taylor series because that's all we knew of.

static double cos(double x) //calculate cosine
        {
            // move x to value in [0, pi] with equal answer
            x = Math.Abs((x + Math.PI) % (2 * Math.PI) - Math.PI);
            const double tf = 1.0 / 24.0, vtz = -1.0 / 720.0, fzhtz = 1.0 / 40320.0, fukit = -1.0 / 3628800.0;
            double p = x * x;
            // use Horner's method instead, just because.
            return 1 + p * (-0.5 + p * (tf + p * (vtz + p * (fzhtz + p * fukit))));
        }
    }
}

See pages 115 and 116 here for a comparison of a Taylor approximation with one that strives for a different metric of accuracy.

I'm about tired of you. Do us all a favor and get banned again. Thanks.

Why don't you do yourself a favor and start charging money to do people's homework for them.

Rashakil why the hell did you insert the "retarded-mentally" tag in my thread?

Huh? I didn't insert any tags.

Do your own homework.

Yeah. i have just been noticing people putting things down for absolutely no reason.

Lawl.

I would recommend reading Code Complete, 2nd Edition.

This is like the most useless book I've ever purchased.

Thanks.. but can you be more clear by giving an example of what to make.

Make a poop simulator.

Honestly Java's obsolete; you should just use Scala or Clojure.

Though a majority of the developers out there regard HTML as a programming language,

What????? Maybe in bizarro world.

Fail it, and well you can guess the rest.

Fail it and you're on the road to having nothing to do with your life other than moaning at people on Daniweb about their futures?

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I disagree :(

The img tags are messed up.

Definitely iamthwee.

Why the hell are you writing "two = 2.0"? That's retarded.

The problem with your code should be obvious if you stepped through the calculations by hand.

You're acting completely ignorantly of the people who could answer your question.

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