Kaali

7 ms·

1. 31.▲
   by Kaali 14y ago

   NES does not have a true scanline interrupt, but it had this weird sprite #0 hit flag. The flag is set if the sprite #0 contains non-transparent pixels, and it overlaps something on the background. When the PPU hits the first pixel where th
2. 32.▲
   by Kaali 14y ago

   Garbage collection seems to be a synonym for automatic memory management for many people. Some even see RAII in C++ as GC. I guess GC is so meaningful for many programmers as it is really convenient, that it has become the main word for AMM
3. 33.▲
   by Kaali 14y ago

   In OSX Lion, Apple released Auto Save and Versions, which does exactly this. Except that just a tiny amount of applications I use in my daily development life does this. But in casual use, it's actually quite nice. If the application implem
4. 34.▲
   by Kaali 14y ago

   I would prefer that the creativity in software development does not come from where you put your parenthesis or spaces. The creativity is in the solutions.
5. 35.▲
   by Kaali 14y ago

   If you start your day by reading your favorite software development news aggregation sites, containing news about interesting libraries, frameworks and how different people have succeeded with them; you can get disillusioned about the impor
6. 36.▲
   by Kaali 14y ago

   Yes there is, and it works quite well: http://www.jetbrains.com/editors/javascript_editor.jsp?ide=i... For sure it has some oddities with the completion as it can't be sure what the prototypes are, but then it just lists functions from di