jheriko

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811.
by jheriko 12y ago
wait... but your comment is doing that too? :)
812.
by jheriko 12y ago
everyone in the UK has powers of arrest afaik - you don't even need to be a citizen. however, i'd imagine that these guys are instructed on how to use it, unlike the wider populace
813.
by jheriko 12y ago
There is sadly a much bigger problem when people can not stop widely unpopular legislation from coming to fruition. Representative democracy is not always democracy... even with an election looming.
814.
by jheriko 12y ago
the interface is good. :) i can not praise that element enough. so many libraries have gigantic, needlessly elaborate interfaces, and forget to provide clean interfaces for the most common use cases. that makes it hard to use them... this h
815.
by jheriko 12y ago
> It's clear that Linux 'won' in the marketplace it depends a lot on what you mean by won and which marketplace you are talking about. as a desktop os linux is essentially non existent with an ever shrinking 1.5% of the m
816.
by jheriko 12y ago
clearly the author does not understand how important both vanity and greed are to most people - especially decision makers. XD
817.
by jheriko 12y ago
i've not yet worked on a game console platform that doesn't end up in trouble when you try and free some small number. given the context of doom 3 engine i think my experience covers it well... unless they did some insane PS1 port
818.
by jheriko 12y ago
yeah, so he said the problem was that this pointer was freed out of his control. any way of packing data into that pointer suffers the same problem - except even worse, you are now freeing something that wasn't allocated.
819.
by jheriko 12y ago
right, but then why can't you take that same opportunity to pull your pointer out and replace it with a zero to avoid it being free'd ?
820.
by jheriko 12y ago
smart pointers are always dumb imo. GC or do it yourself - everything in between is always more of a headache in my experience. I've spent more time debugging reference counts in few code bases than debugging new/delete in many.
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by jheriko 12y ago
This sounds like a publicity stunt... My real concern with all of this is always the uncontrolled ecosystem of steadily evolving viruses and malware. We will never have control of that... and there is no telling what it can become in the fu
822.
by jheriko 12y ago
That packing the controller id into a pointer, which you couldn't use to point at a controller id because it gets freed before you can use it? I must misunderstand something because the hack is going to fail too, except that you are go
823.
by jheriko 12y ago
Yeah, I don't know if its fixable, just that the conclusion drawn is on shaky foundation.
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by jheriko 12y ago
I dunno, I've experienced this a lot, although to be fair, with much larger areas of expertise than a particular product. I was thinking more about 'graphics', 'AI' or at the language level like 'C' or &#x
825.
by jheriko 12y ago
The data set is far too small to draw serious conclusions from yet.... especially the 'increase' in stores that weren't participating (although a 50% drop 'feels' like it should be significant...). Still, hopefully
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by jheriko 12y ago
"To become the expert, you need more projects. They can be smaller, experimental, and even be isolated parts of a non-existent larger app." This is so true. A lot of the 'experienced' people I've met in the industry
827.
by jheriko 12y ago
This is the best argument for not doing this imo. "Classic UNIX behavior was that environment variables were public (any user could see them with the right flags to "ps") so it was well-known not to put anything secret there.
828.
by jheriko 12y ago
another apple 101 screwup. lets hope that this helps encourage them improve their QA process to the point where they at least test real world applications a bit more heavily (or at all). :)
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by jheriko 12y ago
> I realized that this must be something NASA TV is actively blocking that is a very strong conclusion to come to from two coincidental data points and no concrete evidence...
830.
by jheriko 12y ago
this seems like yet another case where a thread safe lockless queue would be good. setting a volatile atomically is fine for the simplest cases, but what if you want to handle every signal raised independently and not just do something if a
831.
by jheriko 12y ago
maybe this article should be: what if apple and google weren't draconian dicks with their app stores? maybe valve and apple could reach some kind of agreement anyway, but the real blocker there i see is that steam fundamentally violate
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by jheriko 12y ago
+1 for stb_image its a very good cross platform bit of code. even though it has some annoying compiler warnings, i've managed to get this to work just fine on Windows, Mac, Linux (ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL at least...), Android (even the ob
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by jheriko 12y ago
this is a nice story, but i think something much more important is missed here... application of the scientific method. all of this logical deduction is worthless unless you verify it with experiments. this is very much not what Sherlock Ho
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by jheriko 12y ago
this is only going to go away if people use gender neutral terms naturally... its sad but true. i've always used guys to mean 'people' because there is no natural slang alternative. i'm now rethinking this, but its hard
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by jheriko 12y ago
sorry, i had to lol quite hard and painfully at 'cutting edge graphics' its an interesting project...
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by jheriko 12y ago
its a shame this doesn't solve the real problem with lack of cross platform ide - which is targetting iOS or Android. the only reason i ever leave visual studio...
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by jheriko 12y ago
i don't hate it but i understand that it adds one too many steps. my code works on every platform actually out of the box. no installs necessary. i consider that important so i just can't use JVM in general unless i sacrifice that
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by jheriko 12y ago
regularly switch between C, C++, Java and Objective-C necessary for cross platform development C++ for the win. its annoying apple and google break the universality of C/C++ by forcing you to use tools built on top of C/C++ :P
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by jheriko 12y ago
i like how the points merge, thats what makes this more than just a dumbass simulator imo. :) took a while for me to work out though.
840.
by jheriko 12y ago
really? i do remember the wow moment when i worked it out for myself but i was pretty young...

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