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This simply isn't true. A number of years ago with the introduction of DirectX 10, Autodesk began transitioning several mainstay products to exclusive DirectX use under Windows (se…

Yeah, no. Kinect uses an IR emitter with an IR-based depth camera, there's nothing stereo about it. A regular RGB camera adds color, but that is all.

Pedantry isn't so bad, if it's correct... As was stated, the term "source codes" is very common in many communities, particularly scientific computing and associated academic circl…

That's simply not the case.. In general, the "no penalty" holds true for primitive data types, and when passing an r-value instance of a class that has a move copy constructor defi…

With the niceties of C++11, it's certainly become a lot less painful; lambdas, auto (both variable and return type), variadic templates and r-value references give the language jus…

My reply wasn't meant as a numerically superior solution, simply as a fairly simple alternative without error codes... As for "original specification", I'm not sure why you even br…

A slight variation with neither error codes nor exceptions. template auto findRoots(T a, T b, T c) -> pair >, maybe >> { typedef complex C; typedef maybe Root; typedef pair Roots; …

Thankfully you're right; compilers have come a long way and Clang in particular has done a lot for easing the pains of template programming in a number of ways. I'm knee deep in th…

It should be noted, it's very clear his executable sizes are for a Debug compilation. I tossed the same code for the final example into VC10, and sure enough in release mode the co…

Whether or not you are a C++ fan, templatized algorithms ARE often faster than their C-based, generic counterparts. Any decent C++ compiler should be able to inline generic code wh…

I can sympathize; I too use C++ by day, and have become increasingly bitter/jealous/frustrated as I've spent more time with Haskell by night. To the point that, I've started writin…

I looked for the "sign that the quote is bogus" but missed it. Maybe results that have 5 million hits are bogus? Maybe results that have relevant links are bogus? I can enter all s…

Hard work as a means to success is hardly a post-romantic invention. Newton was very much a student of Aristotle, the teachings of whom we can see very much aligned with the statem…

You highly doubt a revolutionary figure said a radical thing because it would have been considered impolite/revolutionary/radical? Newton was in a world of his own; he, along with …