Life of Andrew

The Phantom Menace Was Not a Very Good Movie

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

I own all of the Star Wars DVDs except for one - The Phantom Menace. Even the weakest of the others have a certain charm, but TPM was stupid through and through. Even the title is stupid! I have yet to work out exactly what the titular menace actually was. ...

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The C++ Boost Libraries Part 6 – boost::any

Sunday, December 6th, 2009

In C++ if you have a variable that you say is of type "Person" (for instance), you can be fairly certain (more or less) that it always actually contains a Person (or perhaps a subclass of Person. If you have a container of Persons, then you know (more or less) ...

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