Benj

Benj has asked 48 questions and find answers to 78 problems.

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I'm a C++ programmer (these days) doing mainly win32 stuff. Although there'll always be a secret place in my heart for a bit of down and dirty perl programming :-)

Benj questions

Why does std::map behave strangely when passed by value into a lambda?
Why does THREAD_MODE_BACKGROUND_BEGIN cause my code to run 20x slower than THREAD_PRIORITY_LOWEST?
What's the best way to write a maintainable web scraping app?
Is it possible to target Windows Installer 3.0 with the Visual Studio 2012 compiler?
Why can't I catch this exception?
Is it possible for 32 bit NSIS to launch a 64 bit program?
Tracing thread creation points for debugging
Why does std::regex_iterator cause a stack overflow with this data?
How can I run a !<cmd> from a vim script when the path has a space in it on Windows?
Writing a template that can use a std::vector or a std::set

Benj answers

Storing arbitrary bytes in RocksDB
C++ Thread Safe Lazy Load
c++ delete pointer issue, can still access data [closed]
Prevent Vim from updating its undo tree
Exception: The XPath expression evaluated to unexpected type System.Xml.Linq.XAttribute
Generating sorted random ints without the sort? O(n)
Can Someone Explain This Snippet (Why Are These Braces Here)?
Using pair as key for hash_map under Visual Studio
matching the closest strings to a search term (perl regex)
C++ launching program without console opening