STL comments on Tips and Tricks for Answering Hard Questions - Less Wrong

47 Post author: Wei_Dai 17 January 2010 11:56PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 19 January 2010 08:17:47PM *  1 point [-]

This C++0x feature is rvalue references. Wikipedia has an article section about it, although it contains inaccuracies ("The function returning a std::vector<T> temporary need only return a std::vector<T>&&." is wrongity wrong.)

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 20 January 2010 12:29:13AM 0 points [-]

Pleased to make an acquaintance of your secret identity. :-) It's a shame you are not on Facebook.

Comment author: [deleted] 20 January 2010 05:25:33AM 1 point [-]

It's a shame you are not on Facebook.

Why? (I'm genuinely curious. I haven't yet figured out how being on Facebook could be a productive use of my free time, which is unfortunately very limited.)

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 29 January 2010 07:29:41PM *  2 points [-]

I'm genuinely curious. I haven't yet figured out how being on Facebook could be a productive use of my free time, which is unfortunately very limited.

The basic functionality is simply to keep track of the list of interesting people, ideally with contact info automagically updating. Following the status updates is an extra that supports the sense of being in touch without explicit effort on your part, which can be made efficient if you block enough of the more prolific/uninteresting updates, and/or restrict the connections to people you know reasonably well.