maximilianburke

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by maximilianburke 16y ago
I don't agree with the point made regarding having to build ones own software. I've found I've done as much "./configure && make && make install" on OSX as I have done with Linux -- if I'm using something that hasn't been up
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Optimizing for Intel Atom Processor-Based Devices(gamasutra.com)
1 points by maximilianburke 16y ago|0 comments
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by maximilianburke 16y ago
I think the other poster he meant disc brakes vs. centre pull/cantilever cable-actuated brakes.
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by maximilianburke 16y ago
At this point my dream development PC is anything that doesn't have the company mandated McAfee virus scanner and LANDesk spyware/inventory management software. Although it would be nice to have the fastest harddrives, quickest processors,
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by maximilianburke 16y ago
Most definitely. The vendors for the platforms I target only support C and C++ so and the software I write has fairly strict cycle budgets, often measured in microseconds and sometimes in nanoseconds, so regardless of what language I would
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by maximilianburke 16y ago
I use Consolas on Windows and Inconsolata on Linux, somewhere around the 9-10 pt size. Basically small enough so that I can get two 120-column+ editor windows side-by-side on a 1920px wide (24") display while big enough to not hurt the eyes
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by maximilianburke 16y ago
A few of my other favorite compiler tricks: MSVC's /showIncludes displays a list of what files include what files in tree form. Very handy for figuring out where that added Windows.h include is which killed your build turnaround time :). Wi
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by maximilianburke 16y ago
The alternative, cash, cheques, and debit cards, are just so inconvenient. My bank absolutely takes me to the cleaners for fees when I use my debit card and cheques, not to mention the hassle of actually having a chequebook handy. I really
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by maximilianburke 16y ago
It all depends on the type of C++ you are writing. It is such a vast language that usage patterns can range anywhere from C90 plus declare-where-used and single line comments to something that in practice isn't a whole lot different than C#
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by maximilianburke 16y ago
Jones Forth is awesome because it isn't just a great way to learn Forth but also a great way to learn assembly programming. A couple years ago I did a rather crude, hurried, and unoptimized port of Jones Forth to the Cell processor's vector
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by maximilianburke 16y ago
For game development you can safely avoid dealing with exceptions and RTTI. You can probably avoid most template magic, too. Most game developers use C++ as C-with-classes and generally keep the inheritance and OOP-ness fairly simple.
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by maximilianburke 16y ago
An acquaintance of mine years ago worked for Purolator Courier up in Canada and he said that if you wanted your package treated well you would be best off marking it "CONTAINS LIQUIDS". The last thing the handlers want to do is have to mop
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by maximilianburke 16y ago
I'm pretty sure I'd inadvertently run the company into the ground, but it'd be one hell of a learning experience.
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by maximilianburke 16y ago
The response of the developer (Andreas Schwab) is one of the most unprofessional I've seen in a very long time, but then I have a particular loathing for bugs that manifest as subtle runtime peculiarities. Technically he's correct in that i
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by maximilianburke 16y ago
At work I have an HP xw-series workstation sporting two quad core Xeons and 12gb of RAM. I have a 24" main display and a 19" secondary, both Dells, hooked up to a fantastically terrible Quadro NVS290 video card. It runs Windows 7 and my pri
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by maximilianburke 16y ago
I switched to a Northgate Omnikey a couple years ago which is a fairly elderly but sturdy steel-frame keyboard that uses Alps mechanical switches. The tactile feedback is significantly improved over any other keyboard I've used, save possib
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Tiny Go Runtime(golang.org)
4 points by maximilianburke 16y ago|0 comments
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by maximilianburke 16y ago
Blackwater at least felt that their name was tarnished to the point of changing it.
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by maximilianburke 16y ago
Very cool, but it seems to have a fairly slow Clocks rate.
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by maximilianburke 16y ago
That's true but Apple's not going to front you any money to develop your app.
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by maximilianburke 16y ago
What he says about not needing publishers when developing video games isn't entirely correct. Except for the Xbox Live indie games marketplace you cannot hope to ship a game for a console unless you are backed by a publisher. Publishers pro
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by maximilianburke 16y ago
Yes, AMD's Fusion line ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Fusion ) aims to provide SoC functionality.
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by maximilianburke 16y ago
A technology doesn't have to be recent to still be applicable. INI files have been around a long time but they are a well understood mechanism for storing confuguration settings and have mature, well debugged, components for handling them.
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by maximilianburke 16y ago
DRM, practically speaking, isn't about prohibiting piracy as much as postponing the point at which a game is pirated until after it has made the bulk of its sales.
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by maximilianburke 16y ago
Most of the time it seems like it's whatever language I'm not using at that moment. :) I work daily with Python, various build script languages, C++, assembly (in various flavors and dialects), and C#, and at the end of the day it isn't the
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Formal Methods Application: An Empirical Tale of Software Development [pdf](cs.cornell.edu)
2 points by maximilianburke 16y ago|0 comments
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Electronic Arts looks to Unity for cross platform development(techcrunch.com)
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by maximilianburke 16y ago
IE9 requires Windows Vista, not Windows 7.
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by maximilianburke 16y ago
Writing shared-state thread safe code is very hard to get right especially in the context of large systems. When you move beyond safely coordinating mutation of shared resources there are many other headaches that can pop up, like priority