What's the best way to learn C++ nowadays?

That's a difficult question to answer without knowing your current skillset.

I'd definitely recommend CPPCast (http://cppcast.com/) for learning about the C++ community.

Pluralsight has some decent videos as well.

Clicked the link going "Please don't be a website that looks like a C++ dev made it".

It's a website that looks like a C++ dev made it.

I would argue that reading A Tour of C++ would make you ready to write a modern C++ program, if you are a programmer and are comfortable with pointers.

I read "A Tour of C++" and I found the book terse and the information too condensed. I honestly doubt that a programmer that doesn't know C++ could learn C++ from this book.

I am currently going through https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHxtyCq_WDLXryyw91lah... I have only been through 6 videos in that list. I find it to be useful, though a bit slow.

Recommended resources for learning C++ nowadays: "Jumping into C++" by Alex Allain, "C++ Primer Plus" by Stephen Prata, and Kate Gregory's C++ courses on Pluralsight. You can get a free 3 or 6 month Pluralsight subscription by signing up for Microsoft's free Dev Essentials program.

I found that diving into openFrameworks (looking at their examples, etc...) and hacking my own stuff was a great way to learn. Cinder would do the same.

With all the existing issues with abuse on twitter won't this just acerbate the problem?

Yes.

I would say I'm shocked anyone thought this was a good idea, but I'm not, sadly.

Privileged nerds seem perpetually oblivious of any problem that doesn't personally harm them.

Has abuse actually happened? Have you considered that the author might have actually thought about it? Hurray for pre-condemnation.

It's called forethought.

I know that doesn't fit well with the whole "move fast, break stuff" attitude in SV, but then, tech people usually aren't the ones being broken.

Again, how do you actually know the author hasn't thought about it? I'm not praising the attitude your referring to, I'm criticizing your prejudices against the author, the baseless assumption that (s)he fits the label of "oblivious privileged SV tech nerd" you've decided to attribute.

If it takes you more than 30 seconds to come to "An app that allows anonymous public messages on a social network currently wracked by abuse is not a good idea", you haven't been thinking.

I think you're confusing "anonymous" with "uncensored". Nothing prevents these messages from being filtered for abuse.

Not to mention that being a single account, and hence easily blocked, the potential for abuse is minimal compared to the alternative of simply creating a new Twitter account, which would be just as anonymous.

My goal is for this to be used for: giving feedback, poking fun at companies and politicians, or maybe having a fun time with your friends. I hope it is not used for abuse and I do have ways of prevent abuse in place!

You could look at it that way. Or you could look at it as focusing a chunk of abuse into one account from many, which is easier to block.

What's the difference between this and any news outlet?

Nobody loves glorifying a murderous rampage quite like CNN et al.

Are there any good tutorials on using the 2D toolset?

Other than the official documentation, you'll probably have to wait a few days/weeks.

Does anyone have any experience with the user experience side of GoCardless? Do customers have any issues entering their account number and sort code, rather than the usual card information?

I really like GoCardless but feel that customers might be hesitant to enter that information, especially when they're not used to doing it.

Hey - one of the founders of GoCardless here.

We have found that conversion can be just as good, if not better than cards in the right cases. The biggest factor that affects this is transaction type.

We see really great conversion for repeat billing where Direct Debit is already a well known method of payment. Conversion is not as good for one-off payments where DD is less expected though.

I appreciate the honesty and lack of 'spin'.

I was considering GoCardless but a survey of my customers stopped me.

We switched from PayPal to GoCardless for one off payments and we haven't found any problems amongst our customer base. We occasionally have to explain the mechanics behind it but generally people get it and prefer it to not having the faff of a PayPal login.

That was definitely one of the concerns that we had when we decided not to implement GoCardless last year for a product. Paying by direct debit is such an unusual process online outside of Paypal and magazine subscriptions, that it's easy to imagine conversions will suffer.

Did you test any of this, or is that just your gut speaking?

Some people have funny ideas about how DD works, not realizing it's extremely consumer friendly and much smaller fees than credit cards.

I was thinking of offering both as my brief play with GoCardless was very easy to implement.

Tim here - I work at GoCardless.

That's what we recommend. It's super easy to sign up and integrate so it's absolutely worth signing up and just giving it a go. That way you can see whether it works for you and your customers.

With all the recent hacking of Bitcoin services, maybe it's this kind of thinking which is causing more problems.

I don't think regulation helped any of the banks with high profile credit card hacks recently. Don't confuse regulation with security. Regulation is not necessarily in place to provide security for the end user, only barriers to entry. Once you do start to grow obviously the correct precautions should be taken.

Unfortunately the article doesn't distinguish between high/low GI carbohydrates, which is the main focus of low card diets.

The title of the actual article is "With Euro Instability, Can Bitcoin Now Compete with Hard Currency?". It's a question, where as this title was submitted without the 'can' and is therefore posed as fact, which is misleading.

One of those times when changing the title would be good :-)

I find that people who believe that 'Bitcoin' could replace an actual currency don't actually understand what 'currency' actually is. As a criminal 'marker' system I think Bitcoin excels in all of its goals, but without understanding that a nation's currency is a marker for its economic capacity, you can't make durable statements.

And the Euro isn't "melting down" by the way, it is the fact that the economies that are tied to the Euro have some unsustainable fiscal policies. And correcting those policies is politically hard, so between now and when the corrections are in place, the Euro tries to price the actual economic capacity.

You might be able to lose weight with a Twinkie diet but that won't cure the diabetes.

That reference is super useful. If you're on a Mac you can substitue Ctrl for cmd.

there's also this for Mac

https://gist.github.com/1839777