It reminds me of an incident involving an old colleague of mine at some kind of graduate recruitment fair thing. He walked past a stand which was trying to hire engineers which had some code on the wall when the following exchange happened:
Recruiter: Hey there! <indicates the code> Do you know what this is?
Colleague: Err, <looks…thinks for a bit>… It *looks* like some sort of network protocol
Recruiter: <smug> No, it’s *COMPUTER CODE*
fiedzia 19 minutes ago [-]
I like to pause movies when some code is shown and see what it is. Apparently you can break into pentagon by knowing basic sql and high-level employees have alternate life writing tcp implementations and graphics libraries.
Render your local file tree, win a free pentagon entry
bad_username 2 hours ago [-]
I wish <smug></smug> was a real HTML tag
kstrauser 2 hours ago [-]
It's a semantic div tag, and it's spelled "<actually>".
20k 3 hours ago [-]
Its crazy to me how little effort publishers put into the basic parts of their job sometimes. Its even funnier that raymond chen of all people is the one calling this out
defrost 3 hours ago [-]
On the matter of book back text, The Profit by Kehlog Albran has a rear blurb that likens the style of the author to that of a man with a much larger brain.
Bolwin 3 hours ago [-]
Also is this an official Microsoft dev blog?
Probably not a good look back at publishing hq
windward 28 minutes ago [-]
It is, and it's a famous and popular blog too. Lots of older submissions have been highly upvoted here.
_kst_ 48 minutes ago [-]
I wonder if the book itself is actually any good.
My understanding is that authors often have little or not control over the covers chosen by their publishers.
It's at least possible that the book itself is excellent, but I'm not going to spend $90+ on a hardcover copy to find out.
taneq 1 hours ago [-]
This post discusses the topic and makes several key observations.
uwagar 11 minutes ago [-]
i so wanted it to be the cover of stroustrup book :P
fwiw, i stopped keepin up with c++ in 2003. saved my sanity!
koolala 2 hours ago [-]
At least the JavaScript image is excusable since most implementations are made in C++.
pjmlp 1 hours ago [-]
And some of us expect that candidates have at least read the C++ addons documentation chapter.
block_dagger 2 hours ago [-]
A clear case of human slop.
hmry 1 hours ago [-]
This 9 year old publisher still slops the old-fashioned way
haeseong 38 minutes ago [-]
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gruntled-worker 3 hours ago [-]
auto get_xyz_position() -> std::unordered_map<std::string, double *> { ... }
hmry 2 hours ago [-]
You'll need to elaborate
klez 41 minutes ago [-]
It's probably the C++ version of the tired EnterpriseBuilderPatternWhateverFactory jokes about java verbosity.
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Probably not a good look back at publishing hq
My understanding is that authors often have little or not control over the covers chosen by their publishers.
It's at least possible that the book itself is excellent, but I'm not going to spend $90+ on a hardcover copy to find out.
fwiw, i stopped keepin up with c++ in 2003. saved my sanity!