hythloday

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   by hythloday 15y ago

   Employees in the UK have a portion of their wages/backpay protected from an employer going bankrupt[0]: redundancy pay, 8 weeks wages, 6 weeks pay in lieu of holiday, and up to 12 weeks for long service, at a maximum of £400 a week, minus t
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   by hythloday 15y ago

   Just guesswork, but I'd imagine it was EA, who have a subsidiary (DICE) in Stockholm, where Notch lives. Valve (as far as I know) don't have any Scandinavian subsidiaries.
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   by hythloday 15y ago

   I'd have the opposite reaction, I think: I'd want to learn a language because it introduced new concepts (and thus, terminology). It seems to me that it's a bit pointless to learn a language if you already intimately understand its theor
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   Herb Sutter: Welcome to the Hardware Jungle(herbsutter.com)

   3 points by hythloday 15y ago|0 comments
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   by hythloday 15y ago

   Mike Pall's LuaJIT[0] is excellent from a game dev perspective--incremental GC (so you can spend a fixed amount of your frame budget in it) and JIT with a huge number of optimisation make it fairly compelling to write the top 50% of your ga
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   by hythloday 15y ago

   Sentry classes, which are a generalization of RAII, are used idiomatically in C++ for non-allocation tasks, such as whitespace skipping, logging, and profiling.