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[Levi]

Hehe, nice!

[olemars]

Although the cool thing about linkedlists is that if you are building your own, you have a lot of options to mess around with. Will it be single or double linked? Linear or circular? Or will you just say fuck it and turn it into a tree structure? The possibilities!

You dirty criminal patent infringer.
I guess that belongs more in some other thread, but it illustrates that software patents means that all programmers are guaranteed to unwittingly infringe on some ridiculous patent or other that should never have been granted. This is just one tiny example among tens of thousands.

[Max White]

That is as stupid as putting a copyright on building a house with triangular rooms. You copyright designs, not design choices.

[Siquo]

That is definitely WTF material, even though I already decided I wouldn't WTF anymore about USian software patents.

But why make your own if there's already really good stacks, maps, hashes, queues, deques, linkedlists, arraylists, vectors, priorityqueues, sets, multimaps, and multisets? 

[MorleyDev]

It's usually for when you're doing something low-level. Those are all general case implementations, but there are some specific optimisations you can do when you can make certain assumptions about how and where a list is going to be used ^^

[Virex]

Although the cool thing about linkedlists is that if you are building your own, you have a lot of options to mess around with. Will it be single or double linked? Linear or circular? Or will you just say fuck it and turn it into a tree structure? The possibilities!

You dirty criminal patent infringer.
I guess that belongs more in some other thread, but it illustrates that software patents means that all programmers are guaranteed to unwittingly infringe on some ridiculous patent or other that should never have been granted. This is just one tiny example among tens of thousands.

Ha! that one doesn't count in Europe!

[MadocComadrin]

But why make your own if there's already really good stacks, maps, hashes, queues, deques, linkedlists, arraylists, vectors, priorityqueues, sets, multimaps, and multisets? 

Specific optimizations and learning experience: linked lists are remade almost on a daily basis in college classes. Hell, we had to do it twice: one in Java, and again when we were "introduced" to c++ (in quotes since most of us already had c++ experience).

[Siquo]

Specific optimizations and learning experienced: linked lists are remade almost on a daily basis in college classes. Hell, we had to do it twice: one in Java, and again when we were "introduced" to c++ (in quotes since most of us already had c++ experience).

Me, too, but those arent necessary, they're for learning purposes, but Morley has a point: sometimes you need a real specific implementation, or a specific one can be a lot faster.
I stand corrected. (again) (me and my big mouth )

[Virex]

learning purposes

Not covered under patent law. You can reproduce anything to learn from it, though I recall that reproducing something to do research on it doesn't fall under fair use any more for some stupid reasons (which is a ruling that needs to be repealed asap as it defeats the point of patents)

[Willfor]

The Top 10 Songs From a World called TERTOR.

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Let's Go Home, Skalei  by  Makeri Ramond
Oh, Eziara  by  Opeket Hakvri
Garree, I'm Yours  by  Caitamae Graemm
Look Into My Eyes, Tavlux  by  Hardav Nitkan
At The End Of The World With Lortar  by  Thomkai Cerrach
At The End Of The World With Eziara  by  Opeket Hakvri
Let's Go Home, Reesera  by  Sawhaz Brendeb
Let's Go Home, Jondia  by  Caplal Eggezi
Hubba Hubba Friend  by  Nepora Ampdan
Why'd You Grab My Heart Jondia  by  Caplal Eggezi
... I need to expand my song title template a little bit. But anyway, I decided that it wasn't enough for my simulated beings to create music that I would only ever read about. I'd already given them the ability to have musical preferences of their own (though based on a mainstream of their culture), and write their music accordingly. And I wanted a chance to try my hand at creating midi files. So 7 hours of work later, the songs that I used to only be able to read about are things that I can hear.

These are the top 10 songs of the (entire) second world I generated now that I have the files working. The songs change every 10 seconds, and they go down the above list in order.

Now to try to make them write things that aren't love songs. Or make their love songs have an actual effect. Or something completely different. I've been plugging away at music for two days now...

[Levi]

Wow.  I can't wait to listen to it after I get off work.  Does it take a long time to generate the songs?

Edit:  Oh wait, my co-worker just left for the day.  Now I can slack off and listen to music all I like.
Edit 2:  Drat, windows media player doesn't seem to like the midi file. 

[Willfor]

I was testing my success in Winamp, and it played alright. Now I tried playing it myself in other systems. So far:

Works in:
-Winamp
-FL Studio

Doesn't work in:
- Windows Media Player
- Quicktime
- SONAR

I'm probably failing in some key aspect.

[Levi]

I'll try it out in a few things when I get off work.

[kaenneth]

re-posting from fish thread, since it's more relevant here.

The only person who will be looking at my code is me

And VB indentation is horrible.

I do contract software testing, two contracts I had were in the same group; so I ending up working on code I had written myself 2 years previously... and then had someone else maintain.

I literally cannot overstate the importance of good comments. I had everything commented, but a lot of them were 'what' comments, not 'why' comments.

It's vitally important to explain in comments if there is a reason you used a particular pattern/construct/method.

Otherwise you'll end up looking at your own code, and wondering what the hell you were thinking at the time.

[Aklyon]

Its called a fish thread now?