Matteo Italia

Milan, Italy

https://bitbucket.org/mitalia/

Physics BSc at Unimi, software developer at Comelz.

Every morning int, double and size_t wake up and go to buy the newspaper. They read the news together, then int and double check their horoscope; size_t never bothers. Why?

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