All right, so I'm a little slow on the uptake. My complacency has allowed me to overlook IRC Chat (http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1736.html), Web Mobile...

Two-year-olds. They have no patience.

You know who has less patience than a two-year-old? The parent of a two-year-old. In the car. Heading out for a long drive for a holiday weekend.

Several...

This doesn't work?
char source[] = "hello world";
char destination[sizeof source / sizeof *source];When you start going down the trail, they begin to disappear.

Ah, but if you declare it...

No, I take it you didn't understand my point. Like I mentioned, just because it's been done for 30 years doesn't mean that it's the best.

If you take a look at where a #define is used for array...

If you've never heard of the following inane code, do a search for "Rob Pike rules". (Or just do that anyway, it'll be good for you.)
Since that kinda thing is so well known, we don't actually see...

In a number of text and other references, the author stops short of recommending good practice (a blackbird (http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry857.html), perhaps?), and plenty of code and its...

This is just too good as it stands. Peter Seebach concisely covers just about everything. Part 1: What's in a type? (http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-ctypes1/)
Part 2:...

The following came to mind a while ago in regard to aspiring programmers who visit forums such as this. [I claim no credit for this, I found it somewhere on the net.]
And why some programmers remain...

Be a jerk. It's tough love!

Years ago, when I was about two years into my career as an embedded systems programmer, I thought I knew C very well. I had stumbled upon the newsgroup comp.lang.c...

So many of us C forum old timers have answered the same basic questions so many times that even our occasional attempts to be humorous or creative with them seem to get dull. You'd think that by the...

Echoing some of this and jwenting's reply and food for thought:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#skills4