so I wrote this simple function.

So the above code gets simplified to:

I wasn’t happy about the extra copy being created but was willing to live with it.

Then I ran across this fragment which is so similar but ended up changing the final design:

The difference is the above check sets an arbitrary value if it wasn’t within the range instead of just assigning one of the bounds to the value. That caused me to split it into a test, within(), to handle this case and a setwithin() to handle the earlier cases.

Splitting it also let me do a minor optimization. The typical case is that being out of bounds is rather exceptional and it’d be nice to avoid doing a copy. Accordingly, setwithin() checks if the dest has the same address as the replacement value and avoids doing the assignment.

Editted Aug 10.

Sadly, it’s a hoax:

Techcrunch:

“Girl quits her job on dry erase board, emails entire office (33 Photos)” is indeed a hoax, say its creators John and Leo Resig.

If you take the best rate from the 1990′s it’s down to about 8 years! Here’s the chart with how many months it’ll take based on the rate with a couple note worthy rates highlighted.

Anyway, TechCrunch had an interesting perspective about it when they compared it to a scene from Mad Men (official site. They are getting people to make an emotional connection with the iPhone rather then the analytical one of feature X vs. feature Y.

An investigative panel at Pennsylvania State University, weighing the question of whether the scientist, Michael E. Mann, had “seriously deviated from accepted practices within the academic community for proposing, conducting or reporting research or other scholarly activities,” declared that he had not.

This is the second report from Penn St. clearing him and joins two others in Britain clearing related researchers.

These senators were in the tradition of Thurmond, not Byrd — indeed, they are Thurmond’s direct heirs. Like Byrd, Thurmond had been an ardent Democratic foe of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Unlike Byrd, he left his party in disgust that year and endorsed Goldwater, jump-starting the migration of the Democrats’ racist cadre and their political toxins to the G.O.P. and setting the stage for the Republican “Southern strategy.” That strategy isn’t dead.

The NY Times had an interesting obituary about Senator Byrd including his Ku Klux Klan membership, title as “King of Pork”

Mr. Byrd’s perspective on the world changed over the years. A former member of the Ku Klux Klan, he filibustered against the 1964 Civil Rights Act only to come to back civil rights measures and Mr. Obama. A supporter of the Vietnam War, he became a fierce critic, decades later, of the war in Iraq. In 1964, the Americans for Democratic Action, the liberal lobbying group, found that his views and the group’s aligned only 16 percent of the time. In 2005, he got an A.D.A. rating of 95.

  std::map m;
  std::multimap m2;
  m["a"] = 0;
  m["b"] = 1;
  m["c"] = 0;
  std::transform (m.begin(), m.end(), std::inserter (m2, m2.begin()),
                  pair_switch<std::map::value_type> ());

And the actual code:

template
struct pair_switch : public std::unary_function<
    std::pair,
    std::pair >
{
    typedef std::pair argument_type;
    typedef std::pair argument_type2;
    typedef std::pair argument_type3;
    typedef std::pair result_type;


result_type operator()(const argument_type3 &amp;p) const
{
    return result_type (p.second, p.first);
}


};

• Ran my custom backup script:

  $ cd ~/Desktop/wp-backup
  $ ./backup
  

• Downloaded wordpress 3.0:

  $ cd ~/Desktop/src/downloads/pkgs
  $ curl -O http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
  $ mv latest.tar.gz wordpress-3.0.tgz
  

• Make sure you know the WP administrator user password as WP 3.0 uses a “Super Admin” interface.
• No real special requirements for my site for wpmu upgrade most a lot of warnings about plugins and themes not necessarily being compatible.
• Follow the directions or these even better directions
  • Disable plugins from site admin web page
  • Remove (save somewhere else) wp-admin, wp-includes
  • Extract the wordpress-3.0.files
  • Fix permisions (this is Apple’s Snow Leopard Server)

    $ cd /Library/Webserver/Documents
    $ mv wp-admin wp-includes ~/tmp
    $ tar xzvf ~/Desktop/src/downloads/pgks/wordpress-3.0.tgz
    $ chown -R _www:_www .
    

• remove blogs.php

  $ cd /Library/Webserver/Documents
  $ rm wp-content/blogs.hp
  

• Modify .htaccess to add the rule for wp-files (replacings blogsphp):

  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.wp-content/plugins.
  RewriteRule ^(./)?files/(.) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]
  

• Upgrade the site (site.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php). Login as the administrator user, if you don’t see “Super Admin” you aren’t the right user.

• My site admin had some extra steps to perform like getting rid of blogs.php and adding some code for the cookies.
• Update the plugins