Archive for December, 2005

One Man’s Pain Is Another’s Business Opportunity

Posted in Life | Tuesday, December 20th, 2005 | No Comments »

Just came back from a nearby LIRR station buying train tickets for tomorrow. 1.5-hour line in 25-degree weather, thank Pete it’s just cold, clear skies and not windy; actually quite nice if you have enough layers on.

A couple of young women were trying to re-sell $4 tickets for $10 to the people at the beginning of the line, ostensibly because they would not need them anymore. But there were no dopes among us who decided to get their tickets the night before.

Then, closer to the end, a guy walked by handing out menus. He’d have more luck pouring hot coffee though because at that point the line rounded the corner under the bridge where a noticeable draft made everyone quite uncomfortable.

I could not get rid of a feeling that I’ve seen a couple of people on this line before: a guy behind me I had a little chat with and a woman in front.

I Discovered Eclipse and CDT

Posted in Programming | Monday, December 19th, 2005 | No Comments »

I discovered Eclipse, a multi-platform, multi-language IDE. I got interested when I read a news article somewhere that Eclipse is not just for Java anymore, and I wanted to try it out since. Recently I had a couple of ideas to play with but I was not looking forward to doing it the hard way, with a text editor and command line tools. Since I decided to adopt GCC, I was interested to see if GCC could be integrated into some generic IDE, and Eclipse seemed like a good place to start looking, and I was blown away by it. I wish I have tried it sooner!

Here I want to share what I’ve found so far.
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