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by coopierez 6y ago
That was my single biggest pet-peeve of C++. A variable appears in the middle of a member function? Good luck figuring out what owns it. Is it local? Owned by the class? The super-class? (And in that case - which one?) The added mental load
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by coopierez 6y ago
> But unlike C++ it’s more difficult to pick and choose what you use. Can you expand on this point?
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by coopierez 6y ago
The GPU made use of fixed point numbers. So you have a set number of decimal places for a number.
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by coopierez 6y ago
This is because of two things: the affine texture mapping was incorrect, and there was no sub-pixel precision. The sub-pixel part is kinda float-related (though you could make use of fixed point too).
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by coopierez 6y ago
The app also has an extremely enjoyable visualisation of the weather predictions, which is a nice bonus!
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by coopierez 6y ago
Silicon Valley salaries are something else. ARM in Cambridge paid their interns something like £20-22K around 5 years ago. No wonder almost none of them stayed on as graduates.
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by coopierez 6y ago
Isn't that second tweet advocating for _not_ killing Trump?
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by coopierez 6y ago
This is at least partly because all of the German speaking countries got together in 1996 to reform the spelling of the language. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_orthography_reform_of_1...
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by coopierez 6y ago
It depends on how much you value the advertising you get from it. In this particular case, the "influencers" didn't bring in any revenue, so they stopped giving out free samples to them. I suppose you have to decide who is gi
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by coopierez 6y ago
Simulations, not emulations!
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by coopierez 6y ago
This is my issue. How hard is it to add some patch notes? The people who don't care won't read them anyway. It's helpful for the company as well to document their changes, so hopefully someone is doing it internally regardles
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by coopierez 6y ago
This sort of thing happens in a lot of languages though. Your average Italian can comprehend a decent amount of French text without being able to keep up in conversation, or even speak the language. Same with Dutch and German.
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by coopierez 6y ago
As Steve Jobs said: "If you were a product person at IBM or Xerox, so you make a better copier or computer. So what? When you have monopoly market share, the company's not any more successful. So the people that can make the compa
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by coopierez 6y ago
Being a complete newbie on the scene a few years ago, the choice of frameworks and tools was so incredibly overwhelming (coming from C/C++ land). There are strong opinion pieces both for and against basically everything too. When you a
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by coopierez 6y ago
It'll probably behave as it does now if you try using unified memory in Metal (i.e., you will get an error). It's currently only valid in iOS/iPad/iEtc devices. Have a look here: https://developer.apple.com&#x
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by coopierez 6y ago
Do you still have that Xbox?