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Risk Free Offer

I’m not a native English speaker so perhaps I have a bad eye for this, but I’ve just found something on a magazine’s web site that looks strange to me. When Mac Life has a section on its web site at the bottom of each of page titled “Risk Free Offer”, I can’t help but to see the word Risk as a verb; this would mean the magazine is asking you to take the risk of a free offer, which is most likely not the intended meaning.

C3: Comments on Memory Management

I just got wind that someone else in this world is attempting to create another “better C++” language: C3. It’s still vapourware1 at this point. What’s special is that I know who is c3wife. And here is a reply to c3wife’s post about the value of values.

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