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by 10098 12y ago
the funny thing is that fixed precision arithmetic is used literally everywhere and it just works. i'd say it's good enough for most practical purposes.
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by 10098 12y ago
You mean you're sad that the majority of people on earth don't know or care about higgs boson? That's a weird thing to be sad about.
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by 10098 12y ago
yeah, some numbers can never be negative, but their difference can. and that's when it usually comes to bite me in the ass. i almost never use unsigned ints now.
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by 10098 12y ago
wat
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by 10098 12y ago
I think the "language of the future" will be the one that will allow people get results fast with little or no training. In other words, something that requires low skill. People hate learning and all they want is a magic button t
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by 10098 12y ago
They're not moving to github though, just switching VCS.
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by 10098 12y ago
> Most desktops today are arguably variations of the desktops we were introduced to in windows95 That's simply because win95 was really that good . I, for one, think that there's no need to change what already works quite well
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by 10098 12y ago
Worst idea ever.
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by 10098 12y ago
> MongoDB Have you ever used SQL server and do you know what type of problems it aims to solve?
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by 10098 12y ago
Even as a vim user, this post has lifted my sides into the orbit.
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by 10098 12y ago
his point is still valid though
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The German government is pressuring Neocities to remove their censorship list(neocities.org)
3 points by 10098 12y ago|0 comments
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by 10098 12y ago
The fact that this is possible is super awesome. C++ has a lot of features, templates being one of them, which are great tools for library developers. For the most part, if you're an application developer you never have to deal with te
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by 10098 12y ago
then you should stay away from dynamically typed languages :) I don't mean c++ isn't hard, I'm just saying it's not the only language where small typos can make everything explode.
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by 10098 12y ago
FYI http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0k6kkbsd.aspx MSBuild is not Visual Studio
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by 10098 12y ago
Was hoping for more pictures of cute wallabies.
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by 10098 12y ago
Exterminate it with a flamethrower
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by 10098 12y ago
But that's the most fun part of such threads :)
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by 10098 12y ago
Techstop guys are the best
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by 10098 12y ago
For me, the performance has been getting worse with every new release, and I'm not even on weak hardware, I have an ASUS gaming laptop that I bought in 2012.
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by 10098 12y ago
This is why I'm not so quick to dismiss manual memory management. The way it's done in C++ is has always made more sense to me in terms of preventing leaks while introducing minimal overhead. It's true that Java can outperfor
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Optifine dev on performance problems in Minecraft 1.8(minecraftforum.net)
98 points by 10098 12y ago|92 comments
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by 10098 12y ago
exactly what happened to me
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by 10098 12y ago
First, just to clear things up, C and C++ are two different languages. Yes, C++ is backwards compatible, but you'll do yourself a favor if you start perceiving them as two completely separate laguages now. Before you start, you need to
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by 10098 12y ago
Why bring a thought-up ridiculous example when you can post a link to the infamous AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean? Anyway, patterns aren't some "evil plot" by "math haters", they are simply recipes that solve rec
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by 10098 12y ago
I really, really hope this flies. There are very few places on the internet with good quality discussions on gamedev. r/gamedev is nice, but not enough.
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by 10098 12y ago
I used be a REST evangelist like that b̶u̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶I̶ ̶t̶o̶o̶k̶ ̶a̶n̶ ̶a̶r̶r̶o̶w̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶k̶n̶e̶e̶. Now I prefer to simply do RPC over HTTP with a JSON payload.
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by 10098 12y ago
How is that "entirely" in javascript when the most important parts are basically implemented in Chromium.
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by 10098 12y ago
whoosh
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by 10098 12y ago
> why isn't it standard in games that gifting the love interest a rare flower makes them follow you around in some sort of ridiculous simulacrum of infatuation Actually, it is. Try giving a porkchop to a wolf in minecraft :)

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