Archive for November 18th, 2004

‘using’ isn’t a waste

Thursday, November 18th, 2004

Be Mindful of the References / ‘using’ / Manifest Relationship

I always have a tendancy to rip out code that’s unneeded or wasteful. Apparently, it doesn’t matter how many using statements you have in your file. It doesn’t make a difference when it comes down to the execution speed or code size.

That’s good. Maybe I can come up with a nice concise list of ‘using’s that I can use for most every file. And then I can just cut-n-paste when I make a new class. Kinda like the way every C++ file usually has at this at the top:
#include stdio.h
#include stdlib.h
#include string.h

Pennies

Thursday, November 18th, 2004

What an odd coincidence…
Pennies pay off when Ohio collector cashes in
This story came out the exact same day that I decided to pull out all of the change in the house and start rolling it up. This is years of collecting coins, and I just happen to do it the exact same day that this story showed up. So weird!

I do agree with the old guy though. Doing it had a sort of meditation quality to it. Relaxes the mind counting pennies. Hmm…

How much did I end up rolling? Just about $95. Not quite the $14,000 this guy ended up with, but not bad for a day’s work.