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Broken Books
With the addition of features like auto, initializer lists, lambdas, and smart pointers, a lot of C++98 programming idioms and guidance have become obsolete now that C++11 is here. Thus, as Herb Sutter said at GoingNative 2012, a boatload of code examples in the best C++ books are now “broken“.
As a result, new and revamped versions of the books will take awhile to become available. Here’s Herb’s “estimated time of arrival” for several stalwart books:
In the meantime, you can feast your eyes on, and feed the left side of your brain with, these links:
- Bjarne Stroustrup’s C++11 FAQ page
- Wikipedia C++11
- Scott Meyers Overview Of C++11
- C++11 Features To GCC Compiler Map
- C++ Standards Committee Home Page
- GoingNative 2012
- C++11 Features in Visual C++ 11
- Clang Compiler C++11 Support
- Writing Modern C++ Code (Herb Sutter)
Do you know of any other good links to add to this post?
operateUntilDeath()
Putting aside the “NotYouAndMe” class name in the bogus BD00 model below for a moment, I think most powerful and wealthy people believe that they can willfully control their feelings, actions, and behaviors via a “Conscious Executive” entity hosted within their brain. Objects of this fictitious class “require” and are “provided” energy by the one and only “life force“.
“NotYouAndMe” objects continually execute the “operateUntilDeath()” function in a “while(alive)” loop until the “life force” asynchronously pulls the plug – which can be anytime and anywhere. D’oh!
Each cycle through the “operateUntilDeath()” function goes something like this:
- Poll your senses for objects and events “out there“.
- Evaluate the sensor input data against prior memories accumulated and stored in your “Experience Database“.
- Speak/act according to whether you consciously perceive the current landscape as a threat or an opportunity.
The only problem with the model above (beside the fact that it’s another whacky BD00 concoction) is the “conscious” part playing the CEO of your corpus. That’s why the aggregator class is aptly named “NotYouAndMe“. To see this fallacy more vividly, feast your eyes upon the real, Nobel prize winning “YouAndMe” model below.
The BD00 mandated reality is that there’s a hidden and oft-denied “Unconscious Executive” behind the scenes that enables/disables the “Conscious Executive” object whenever it damn well pleases. In effect, the “Conscious Executive” gets sloppy seconds on the sensor data only after it’s been censored and chewed up by the “Unconscious Executive”. In totally clueless people like BD00, the “Conscious Executive” is rarely, if ever, “enabled“. D’oh!
How about you dear reader? Do you believe that you’re “fully in control and in charge”? Are you a “Conscious Executive“? The more you believe it, the less it is.
The “E” Test
From Dan Pink’s “FLIP Manifesto“:
To take the E test, draw the letter “E” on your forehead. Oops, too late. You already know which way is the “correct” one.
Ingrained Internal Shared Mindset
All Models are wrong, but some are useful – George Box
One of the models below puts the owners and managers of an enterprise at the top and the other model places them at the bottom. Which system design do you think is capable of creating more wealth for all stakeholders over the long term?
Finite Experience
An Unexpected Honor
What Do You Do?
While perusing Dan Pink’s FLIP-Manifesto, point number 5 triggered a “WTF?” moment within my being:
“Outraged” at Dan’s audacity to attack one of the pillars of my UCB (the burning desire to continually search for personal passion), I navigated directly to the blasphemous pages that rationalize his assertion.
I discovered that Dan is right. In lieu of wrestling with an “endless self-examination and searching for some inscrutable holy emotional grail“, ask “what do I do?” instead of “what is my passion?“.
What do you think? More importantly, “what do you do“?
Structure, Not Content
The problem is not the content, it’s the conditioned structure of the human mind – Eckhart Tolle
If the structure of one’s mind has been conditioned and molded into a crystallized pyramid from birth (and whose mind hasn’t?), then its time-varying content will be heavily distorted by pyramidal thoughts. You know, those thoughts that put you at the top of the pyramid so that everyone will know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you’re smarter and more important than they are.
Still Waiting…..
Holy shite! Look at what my wordpress blog dashboard says today:
One thousand freakin’ published posts. BD00 is quite the bullsh*t l’artiste, no?
Alas, I’m still waiting for my….












