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There have been a number of times when I've been in difficult situations with severely drunken or otherwise vulnerable people, and every time I've called the local police station (rather than the emergency number) and they've sent someone over. But it's always the police I would call - never the fire brigade.

Nintendo tests third party emulators? I thought they were pretty vocally against the emulation scene.

I have had exactly the same kind of existential anxiety from a very young age (I remember discussing this extensively with my parents at ~7 year old). It used to be something that only happened late at night when I was alone - until the first time it hit me in a completely normal situation. I was literally mid conversation and suddenly all I could think about was my inevitable mortality. I can not describe the feeling of shock and helplessness. The floor disappeared beneath me.

I walk out of the house every morning and look at the people in the street, and I just don't understand how they can function normally in the face of certain death. Terminally ill people are often anxious because they're going to die. But everyone is going to die. We are all terminally ill with this fatal disease called "life".

It's nothing to do with wanting to accomplish more before I die. It's the very idea of not existing that I can't comprehend. I'm sure anyone would agree that the world ending would be a fairly grim prospect. When you die, the world ends. Game over, even if everyone else continues.

Alcohol is a wonderful escape from an over-active mind, but guzzling a substance that's likely to screw with your health long term... isn't exactly ideal for an existentialist and hypochondriac. SSRIs seem to help regulate things until - months in - you realise they are actually pretty nasty drugs with too many observable side effects to count on both hands.

Maybe shrooms are the answer, indeed, though having never dared touch them from - strangely enough, fear of their inducing a panic attack - I've yet to be able to comment on that.

    template<class T> class foo
    {
    public:

        ~ foo()
        {
        }

        foo &operator = (const foo &rhs)
        {
            foo::~foo();
            new (this) foo (rhs);

            return *this;
        }
    };

    int main(int argc, char * argv[])
    {
        foo<int> a, b;
        b = a;
    }

It's certainly not standard, but I wrote a nice little generic list library you might be interested in: http://github.com/udp/list

It uses GNU extensions, but can fallback on C++ instead if you need to build with MSVC.

On that note, is there anyone else up in the North East interested in organizing some kind of meetup here?

[1] http://gmailblog.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/send-mail-from-anoth...

Can you tell me more about these sacrifices that would have to be made? I'm genuinely interested.

Oh, so that's why they wanted my grandma to buy a new version of Windows (and a new computer to meet the system requirements) just to update Internet Explorer.

Also, if the license says "Copyright <author> et al." (as many license headers do), does the copyright actually belong to the contributors as well as the author? How is this determined?

Then there are things like the portable integer types - which you decided aren't necessary because everyone is writing Win32 code (???), the designated initializers which I use every day to make my struct initializing code safe from changes in the struct itself, for loops, a consistent bool type ... heck, I could go on all day if you hadn't already dismissed the rest of the standard as "stuff that no one uses".

I really don't mean to come across as aggressive, but this kind of ignorant and dismissive attitude is so rampant in the tech scene at the moment. And it's getting us nowhere.

Definitely writing C99 in that I compile the exact same source files with -std=c99 -Wall -pedantic when using a real C compiler.

I think casting void pointers is very much the lesser of two evils. And of course I can use MinGW, but that doesn't mean the majority of Windows developers don't insist on using MSVC.

The problem is, if I want my C code to compile with MSVC, it has to compile as C++ - and even if I abhor Windows for development myself, a lot of developers are using MSVC.

I just wish Microsoft would update their C compiler, at least to C90. But then I suppose the standard has only been around for 23 years, and nobody really uses C anyway.