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> The most impressive one so far is making a port of a ~100 KiB Linux a.out i386 program to a native Windows PE i386 executable, despite not having access to its original source co…

You mean, having wrapper classes over the C primitives? Wouldn't this defeat the purpose of having an immediate-mode API ?

Quite the opposite IMHO : when your program interacts with a user, you cannot panic the program each time something unexpected happens. Here are some examples of unexpected conditi…

Technically, `throw` is `goto somewhere`.

> But as natural as causal reasoning feels to us, computers can’t do it. That’s because the syllogistic thought of the computer ALU is composed of mathematical equations, which (as…

> I was curious to see how the self-correcting mechanisms of science would respond [...] > I was disappointed by the response from Southwest University. Their verdict has protected…

> You learn how to use it, but you don't learn the proofs behind it? Which makes sense, at least firstly, considering that understanding a proof is a lot easier when its conclusion…

It depends on how the physics engine has been integrated into your game/engine. The book "Game Coding Complete" shows how to isolate a 3rd-party physics engine so you can switch im…

> You do not live in a video game. There are no pop-up warnings if you’re about to do something foolish, or if you’ve been going in the wrong direction for too long. In the good ol…

Facebook and Google anyone ? :-)

``` In this sense, the lock in lock-free does not refer directly to mutexes, but rather to the possibility of “locking up” the entire application in some way, whether it’s deadlock…

Your hypothesis would explain a decrease in sales ; but can it explain an increase of negative reviews?

"We’re so spoiled today. Every week a newer, faster processor is released. Hardware gets cheaper and we can just throw more chips at the problem." I've been running a 3.5GHz CPU (w…

I agree: if you only consider extra revenue, it's not worth the extra effort. And yet, GNU/Linux is supported by many commercial games: Amnesia, SOMA, SpaceChems, Towerfall, Braid,…

No GNU/Linux version, for such a geeky theme ? The game uses Unity3D, it might only be a matter of ... recompilation :D

Source?

> Why would I want to solve puzzles with known answers that thousands of people have already solved? For the same reasons you might engage in any entertainment activity. Real-life …

You can't have a unified opinion here. There are some pretty good public game codebases (Penumbra/HPL, Quake I/II/III, Doom I/III), there are some okay ones (RedAlert), there are a…

Yes, obviously. But the message seemed to say that the constant speed of light implied that the derivative of the velocity with respect to time had to be zero.

> Also if the light wasn't moving straight that would mean it's changing direction, which is the same as an acceleration, and a beam of light traveling thru a gravitational field f…

From what I understand, once you accept that gravity isn't a force, the usual symmetry between the earth and the apple doesn't hold anymore. The apple doesn't curve space-time as m…

So is the universe.

Backward compatibility isn't a technical issue, it's a political one. If only GNU/Linux systems have had half of Windows' marketshare, obviously some choices about breaking app-lev…

> You should never compare two floating-point numbers for equality. ... when their values come from an arithmetic computation. Here's a counter example: Quake's collision code make…

The Assimp library can load FBX. Considering how well Frictional's code is architectured this should be pretty easy to fix.