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Fair enough, good answer :)

Yeah it kind of feels dirty having all these mutable variables around after doing any functional programming at all. I've found using const a lot also goes hand-in-hand with raii. …

I'm always looking for a legitimate excuse to use a goto in my C++ code because I'm perverse. It's very rare to find one but this looks like it might be okay.

That's one thing I've noticed with my C++ code lately is that I'm writing const absolutely everywhere. Having mutability where you need it is awesome but it is interesting to see l…

It's an interesting time for native development with all these languages making some serious attempts to dethrone C++ when in comes to combining high/low level in one language. I'm…

What problems have you found trying to write memory safe code? It seems to me that you barely have to think about memory ownership anymore ever since unique_ptr and shared_ptr came…

It's all very interesting if true. I've always wondered why some people just seem to get nauseous so quickly when interacting in 3d environments. In my anecdotal experience I've fo…

Exploring the reasons as to why some people suffer more severely from simulator sickness than others is very interesting and relevant. It would be great to see more research into t…

I've suffered pretty severe depression and anxiety for most of my adult life. While the idea that we should all just grow a thicker skin and 'just deal with it' is both understanda…

Very well said. Articles like this reduce games to some grey, by the numbers marketing exercise. The reason so many games on the app store sink like a rock is because they just pla…

I can't recall if it required a cheat or not (secret stuff didn't show up on the map by default), but you could absolutely see every entity in the level from the map screen. This i…

The games that do float to the top tend to be reasonably solid (or at the very least they do what they say on the tin) but even then a lot of them just aren't that great. It just s…

Thanks for the kind wishes, and yeah it's something I feel pretty strongly about. There are obvious problems going this way (how do you get people past the hurdle of paying for a g…

Wonderfully put. As a developer working hard on an iOS game I feel exactly the same way. Back in the day loading a video game was a very private, safe almost sacred experience. The…

While I agree that there is less and less reason to use XP these days, age alone is a pretty terrible way to judge the merits of an OS. How old is Linux now?

Your story rings true for me. I dabbled in programming in my teens, but like you I was a hobbyist at best. When things got tough I would just give up. Programming seemed really har…

That's a cool idea, but how would you prove you came up with an invention independently if the patented device/software is already out there?

Maybe not. But any of the seven billion humans could do a startup.

People (still) want to discuss complex issues that effect their career and everyday life. Get over it.

I don't think the onus is on Apple to suggest how Samsung could design a good alternative tablet.

Oh come on. I realise this is an unfortunate accident and people may ask hard or even unfair questions about how prepared the crew were, but blaming the people minding their own bu…

What on earth are you talking about? Parent was making some general observations about the nature of sexism in the tech industry and its causes. How did you get from that to this '…

Safari with adblock and ghostery here, got 8 correct and 18 false positives.