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CppCoder

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    Comment #36845868

    @karpathy, I could not get to run. It exited in the reading of the tokenizer.bin. Turns out on Windows with Visual Studio, fopen needs to be issued in binary mode, otherwise the re…

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    Comment #30686880

    > They are permeated with little holes that allows light and sound in if they have not fully descended. If they have then the little holes are folded shut. This too is a bit genera…

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    Comment #30439386

    The annoying part with Steam is, almost every time I start it, it is downloading a few hundred MB large update. This makes absolutely no sense to me. * first of all they could redu…

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    Comment #30439338

    Every now and then I like to mention the rules were a lot different on PC many years ago. Back then, the developer got the 30% and the publisher (similar to Steam) received the ful…

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    Comment #30301748

    I did too, and was actually surprised to find out it uses just one touch control to play. It's not super easy, as it does require some good timing.

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    Comment #29025320

    Actually it was. It was ok as an overview.

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    Comment #26972304

    Developers, or publishers already do play a yearly fee (~100USD ~100Euro) to Apple in order to publish apps to their app store.

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    Comment #26972280

    Plus providing the infrastructure for users to download the million of apps and updates. The tools Apple provides to even develop for their platform, like XCode and all the SDKs an…

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    Comment #26029867

    Does anyone know or has experience in how a „Direct Connect“ line reduced the latency? Instead of having your users go through the public internet, they connect to some proxy which…

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    Comment #24992356

    You have to put this into perspective. I am working on an MMO gane and not only can good code half the server amount but just as well the internet traffic, which in turn reduces mo…

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    Comment #24855559

    In here and in the article it sound as if QUIC or HTTP3 use or build a new Internet Protocol, while it was my understanding it _simply_ uses UDP to create a better version of TCP. …

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    Comment #24014243

    Not everyone made apps before Apple. In thoese times the developer got the 30% and the store keept the remaining 70%. Of course often after download, and credit card fees. I get it…

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    Comment #24013911

    I see it the same way, even as developer. Every store is another task which takes resources to handle. Stores change and hence it never stops. Further, Icwsnt customers to know tue…

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    Comment #23842087

    „Platforms will have to provide 30 days notice to publishers before removing content from stores“ This happend to me a few times with one particular app on Google Play Store and a …

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    Comment #22999388

    Let’s not forget a benchmark is not a typical application. Just because it does improve without using dynamic linking does not conclude it would so in every application. But, I def…

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    Comment #18056442

    Google too shut down AdSense just a few weeks ago for a project I work on/for. We only use AdMob to serve ads as alternative monetization. No warning, no reason given, no way to co…

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    Comment #13994007

    Did anyone actually look at the content which is responsible for the increase in size? I hope it does not include the source itself, comments, and who knows what.

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    Comment #13838490

    This is why my new server system sends you a password for every login you want to do to your email. Of course you do stay logged on, so it is not needed very often.

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    Comment #13680892

    Since their tools and software is not improving and each version brings new bugs to enjoy, I am happy to see Microsoft support compilation of other platforms with Visual Studio. Th…

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    Comment #13175873

    But he starts with saying the file can be processed offline. And I wonder, if one gets the "password" file to be processed offline, why can't he simply get the data too? Maybe ther…

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    Comment #12870998

    I read the original study and yes, they did compare it to lifelong non-smokers. However, as far as I saw they only compared people with cancer. And the numbers were usually increas…