Thoughts of a Curious Software Engineer

Intro Recently, I have been reviewing the function std::async and decided to get a better understanding. The C++ standard says: The function template async provides a mechanism to launch a function potentially in a new thread and provides the result of the function in a future object with which it... [Read More]

While writing about smart pointers in C++ I’ve noticed a funny thing: Google Docs know about C++ syntax but not about C++ 11-17! It showed the following suggestion: [Read More]

A bit of history The first time a shared pointer was introduced in boost library in the year of 1999. Even before boost had release numbers! Back then the only alternative standard C++ could provide with was std::auto_ptr. It was so bad that it was rarely used, got deprecated in... [Read More]

As a reader may know UDP network protocol does not support either message retransmission or acknowledge. It means that all these problems are supposed to be handled at the application level. In audio/video transmission domain the problem is usually solved with forward error correction technique. The idea is to add... [Read More]

This is the second post about debugging with strace. [Read More]