Patrick Niedzielski (patrickniedzielski)

Patrick Niedzielski GNU's Not Unix , C++ , Guillermo

C++ Primer Plus was good for syntax, but doesn't teach modern C++ style. Scott Meyers's Effective C++ series is a pretty good supplemental.

Patrick Niedzielski X11R5 , Sander

An economics class on @sandersch 's credibility. I'm okay with that.

Patrick Niedzielski

Summer Break. Finally.

Patrick Niedzielski thelovebug

Yeah: when you are coasting, you are using fuel to keep the engine turning. When in gear and moving, the momentum does it.

Patrick Niedzielski thelovebug

With an automatic, though, that has slipping in the transmission, I'm not entirely seeing how that could be true.

Patrick Niedzielski thelovebug

I can see it being true in a manual transmission, where the wheels are connected directly to the engine camshafts.

Patrick Niedzielski Charles Roth

100% agreed. There is no excuse for not allowing me to cancel my account on my own. It should not require anyone's intervention to do so.

Patrick Niedzielski

I really want them to explain to me why me needing to ask them to terminate my account for me constitutes my power to terminate my account.

Patrick Niedzielski Patrick Niedzielski

[...] This goes against your Terms of Service.

Patrick Niedzielski Patrick Niedzielski

[...] account without any action on your part. Currently, I do not have the power to terminate my account -- only you do. [...]

Patrick Niedzielski Patrick Niedzielski

Additionally, as per section 10 of your Terms of Service, it would be greatly appreciated if you allow me to terminate my [...]

Patrick Niedzielski Patrick Niedzielski

Dear Washington Post: Please delete my account, associated with this email. The display name is "********".

Patrick Niedzielski

Deleting an old account I have for some reason on Washington Post. Have to send an email to them to request a deletion. Not happy.

Patrick Niedzielski Patrick Niedzielski

Which is amusing, because those are the three hours I get to code tomorrow. Thankfully, though, there exists distributed version control.

Patrick Niedzielski

"Project Hosting will be READ-ONLY Thursday at 3:00pm UTC for up to 3 hours for network maintenance."

Patrick Niedzielski

I've seen worse code.

Patrick Niedzielski sweet

You're funny.

Patrick Niedzielski Patrick Niedzielski

Sometimes I don't want to deal with a person, but that shouldn't call into question their right to the service, right?

Patrick Niedzielski

Somewhat related: I'm concerned about the default behavior of blocking being to flag the user as well.

Patrick Niedzielski Jeff Ratliff

Can I configure it to be a good text editor? #obvioustrollisobvious :)