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Tax Deductions Defy Equality and Fairness – Letter to the Editor

In response to this: It is nonsensical to oppose “legislatures […] buy[ing] votes with other provinces’ money”, and yet advocate “tax recognition for the costs of raising children”.  They are the same...

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Opening Mail Attachment Warning – How to Suppress Programmatically

Perhaps you’ve seen this dialog when using Microsoft Outlook: You may have noticed that occasionally the “[a]lways ask before opening this type of file” is greyed out—as it is in the screenshot above....

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Higher Unemployment or Higher Prices? – Letter to the Editor

The minimum wage here in B.C. recently jumped from the lowest in Canada to the highest ($10.25). I sent a letter to the editor to honour the occasion: Today the minimum wage in B.C. rose to $10.25....

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“May Day” Shameful – Letter to the Editor

Walking from the office to the parkade, I walked through Centennial Square and was disgusted by the communists out in force. Got home and wrote/sent this: Today – May 1st – is “International Workers...

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Harper Right to Stem the Flow of Handouts – Letter to the Editor

In response to this: The writer comments that Harper’s government has “offended financially vulnerable Canadians of all ages”, but how has he done this? By no longer giving them that which they do not...

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CentOS on Hyper-V Clock is Fast

I recently setup a Hyper-V VM (CentOS) to run my Minecraft server (it was previously on a dedicated physical box, but that wound up replacing my Exchange server after it died).  Logging into it last...

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Unicode Console Output (Windows)

Unicode and Regular Expressions have been two interests of mine for a while, so I decided to implement both of them as a personal project and as a learning/growing exercise in C++. Amusingly, the most...

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Unicode Console Input (Windows)

I previously posted about outputting Unicode to the Windows console. Before I get started on the next in that series of posts, just wanted to talk a bit about what encoding the Windows console actually...

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The Veneer of Unicode-Awareness

Unicode is complicated. Handling Unicode properly is hard. ASCII, Latin-1, et cetera were all easy.  One character was one byte, and that was all there was too it.  There was no distinction between...

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Variadic SFINAE

So earlier I was writing an API for a personal project of mine to send data.  I had a lot of overloads, and I wanted to add some templates that would take a callable object as a parameter, and a...

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