We are entering troubled waters, beware! visual diff tool, C++ Templates, Google’s”Testing on the Toilet” and Compilers.

Sun, 03 Nov 2019

I am entering stormy seas. A lot of changes in my life at once. It is going to be interesting to see how I tackle this. I need to update this log now more than ever.
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Diffee Checker1 is a website to check the visual difference between two webpages.
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Mon, 04 Nov 2019

How to increase your mouse speed on Ubuntu2.
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Tue, 05 Nov 2019

You cannot separate template definition from its implementation3. This is because the compiler when expanding the template definition wouldn’t know how to expand it.
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Wed, 06 Nov 2019

Life lessons: start before you think you are ready4
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Thu, 07 Nov 2019

To run something on startup, you can use crontab @reboot functionality.

@reboot <user> /path/to/script.sh

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Google posted a really nice article on how to comment on code reviews5.
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Interesting list of tutorials by Daniel Miessler6
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I have, for sometime, been trying to better understand how compilers work. I plan on writing a blog post on it soon7 8 9.
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  1. http://diffee.me/ ↩

  2. https://io.bikegremlin.com/11541/linux-mouse-scroll-speed/ ↩

  3. https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/templates#templates-defn-vs-decl ↩

  4. https://austinkleon.com/2019/11/05/start-before-you-think-youre-ready/ ↩

  5. https://testing.googleblog.com/2019/11/code-health-respectful-reviews-useful.html ↩

  6. https://danielmiessler.com/study/ ↩

  7. https://towardsdatascience.com/understanding-compilers-for-humans-version-2-157f0edb02dd ↩

  8. http://xahlee.info/parser/compiler_tutorial.html ↩

  9. https://course.ccs.neu.edu/cs3650/ssl/TEXT-CD/Content/COD3e/CDSections/CD2.12.pdf ↩