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gfodor on Oct 10, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Deep C

Here, have an upvote. So many people in this thread are missing the forest for the trees here and turning this slide deck into a referendum on interview styles, programming personas, and style. I guess it certainly makes for a nice bike shed, but the point of this is to help you appreciate some of the finer details of writing good C code. I like it.

wisty on Oct 11, 2011 [–]

That's one of the dangers of "attention grabbers".

"What you learn today Johnny?"

"Pure sodium goes BOOOM!"

"Why's that?"

"Um, the teacher said something about chemistry, but we were all just watching the fireworks."

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