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>> Specifically, if you have a team that doesn't communicate effectively on a daily basis, I concur. My people don't communicate very well and have no real team spirit. The stand u…

If you need unicode (i.e. your app will take more langauges than english and spend a lot of time on that (hint! GUI hint!), the 3 is the way to go. Unicode support is so much bette…

From the FAQ : Multi-language support: Bazel supports Java, Objective-C and C++ out of the box, and can be extended to support arbitrary programming languages. c'mon, not even the …

I have a fairly large code base (80K LOC). When the size grows, lack of typing can become a problem. 95% percent of the time, the code is explicit enough. However, when you end up …

>> Taxes are paid out of those new dollars Interestingly, here in Belgium, the press often states that Google pay his taxes as requested by the law. And that Google have some very …

I concur. When hiring with these kinds of small problems, you actually see a lot . First, in my case, it sorts programmers from not-programmers (it's in the 50% ballpark). Then wit…

That's very vicious PR to me. By acknowledging some guys thre were hacked too, they implicitely say that : "we're in the same boat, anthema and their customers, we'll fight togethe…

Amen. As a "hacker", I think a lot, all of the time. So I cook to think about something else. Washing the dishes without dishwasher is also a moment where I let my mind wander. Def…

I've looked at the zommable picture. When I zoomed to the maximum, I saw a lot of noise in the picture (and a arather regular one). Does it mean that although the resolution is pre…

If I can judge from my child and his friends, I can tell you the angry birs brand is just massively popular and that the lack of story is absolutely irrelevant to them (they just c…

what if there is water condensating on the panel ? what if the panel is not perfectly oriented towards the sun ? (dunno, just asking)

Geek's dream... First, instead of providing tools, one could help people to develop taste. Many accept overcooked chicken or fish because they just catch the spices flavours. They …

Not to sound smart ass but I got that in 1996 when I was fortunate enough to have a course on Scheme by D. Ribbens here at Liege University in Belgium. He showed us how to build th…

I concur. PySide makes developement/prototyping really efficient : the code is easy to read, no build system to maintain, no heavy tools to run, portability makes life so much bett…

is it me or the algorithm suggested at the end degenerates if the rectangles are organized as the steps of a stair and each of them extends to the rightmost position ? In that case…

Oh please... Now let me show you the real why, values, etc. We, as a company, have no fucking core values. At the beginning there were a few smart ass, business savy dudes with an …

I build a small ERP (closed source so far)... 3 customers at 100€ / month => 300 €/month, paid in various ways...

In the demoscene, doing the impossible was just regular behaviour :-) Just look at what they get out of a mere C64...

Interstingly they talk about the "change palette in the middle of the screen" tricks that we used in Imphobia. The precision timing was certainly tricky, especially when playing a …

forget about it, the answer to my question was written below my post :-) kudo for the video on the XT !

Wiz / Imphobia here.. Damn, that is dedication. I didn't know there was a 160x200 X 4 bits resolution on the CGA card. How was that activated ?

Given enough time, can a ball bounce out of the labyrinth ? Obvously, not always. So, in which condition can this happen ?

I think this particular idea of storing information in the BSP leaves was the big innovation brought to us by Id Software. Now, the elephant in the room is : how to build a well ba…

Ahhhh AppleSoft + whatever graphical extensions, GPLE, Toolkit Assembler (there was another assembler but I don't remember its name), Pascal UCSD in 80 columns,cp/m,... Memories...…

Let me laugh. If they'd be successful, how open would they have been about the way they make it a success ? Call me cynic, but saying "it's do educate" seem quite pretentious to me…