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Rust's library documentation has this feature as well; each item has a [src] link that takes you straight to the code being documented; see for instance [0], and you'll find the li…

The thing that kept me from trying Ada (back a couple of years ago when I was writing firmware and so was kind of on its home turf) was a lack of good resources for learning it. I …

Unless I misunderstand their test code, the article says they could reproduce the problem using an array of 67108864 Integer objects. That doesn't sound like an impossible amount o…

To clarify the above, new API's introduced since around Vista are more likely to be COM (and WinRT is of course entirely COM when used from C++), but the existing C API's have not …

In Visual Studio 2017 you can open an executable directly and begin debugging it without having either of those things.

The only items I have in that sharing menu are e-mail, which clearly there would be no need for this service if that were good enough, OneNote, which makes no sense, and advertisem…

Console dev kits for major platforms never included game engines, and the primitives included with older console dev kits, if any, were often ignored because more custom versions w…

Let me see if I understand this argument (with the awareness that you are attempting to restate it and not directly advocate it yourself). When someone is being subjected to abuse …

Game engine vendors also care a great deal about iOS, since they have a large number of customers who do, so that's also driving support for Metal in those engines.

In any kind of user-facing support role, not trusting the user's account of what happened is rule #1.

There was an attempt at a somewhat standardized C++ subset called Embedded C++. Even within embedded circles I don't think it ever got much traction, presumably because it was _too…

If we're talking about mobile apps, it seems more likely that they would send the same software to everyone and just turn on these features being tested by sending some activation …

It's much too early in that project to publicly say anything substantive about it, because everything is still subject to change. All they can do right now is generate hype, which …

MSDN has this, and I have never seen a comment there that actually provided value to a reader of the page. It makes even less sense on MDN, because MDN is a wiki; if you think some…

No source code, but looking at the Windows binary it's using a statically linked copy of SDL 2. Plus that file's about 2 MB, so really not surprisingly small.

We're only talking about one exploit in one program. CFG doesn't have to be "common" to be relevant, it just has to have been used in that program, which it must be or it wouldn't …

This is exactly what Microsoft were accused of doing to Lotus 1-2-3 back in the day. See [0]. TL;DR: wasn't true. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10432608

There's a feature called Lightweight Solution Load [ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/extensibility/... ] which does seem to just lazily load projects. But even with t…

DX 9 class graphics are great for a lot of applications. Not every project has to be at the cutting edge of rendering technique to achieve its goals.

It's hard to feel respected when you're constantly hearing all about how "fucking stupid" your ideas are. I know in theory you're supposed to separate criticism of your ideas from …

They don't need to support it, because the GPU vendors have done so in their drivers, so it works fine on Windows without Microsoft's assistance.

FYI, this default has been flipped on Nightly, and that change should make it in to the version 53 release in April (barring any huge problems found in the 64-bit build).

The list in this article isn't exhaustive, it's just one set of suggestions. They are good and useful suggestions, but not the only possible criteria. You should make your own indi…

> Unfortunately the Windows syscalls are not officially documented and even less stable than on Linux, changing even between service packs. You can get pretty close though; it's po…

So... not been closely following development on Go. What does this mean?