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That's exactly what they did. That's what SOC means. Basically instead of having to have a separate chip on the board for the radio, it's within the processor. Of course the board …

Finally someone actually works in the cg industry replies. +1 to this. No one really uses fixed function stuff these days, everything is shaders and vertex and index buffers. There…

Debugging is not fun when your program is leaking memory and you're not sure why, and existing code tools don't tell you why. Especially if you're writing drivers. Sure, stepping t…

This video kind of makes you wonder if people are really saying these things cause they mean it or if they are just being watched and have to act a certain way to reap the benefits…

Little known fact...the only reason the brace is on the same line as the function declaration is because K&R just wanted to save space in the code listings.

I kind of stopped reading at the 50 dudes in 5 years part. She pretty much lost all credibility at that sentence.

I'm a computer science major and I've interned at an animation company as a technical director. We were outsourced for a certain AAA game that is coming out in 2011 (can't say what…

What is sad that all the cool hardcore C programming jobs are going oversees - unless you're a computer engineer and deal with hardware. Everyone is looking for php, ajax, python, …

um, they did release an expansion...

Everyone is talking about how much they practice their scales in their "daily practice." If it's a chore to you and has no practical application, don't waste your time, play someth…

When I was in japan I worked on two organic farms for about a month total. I did it through the wwoof program which is available all over the world. It was a great time. Even thoug…

Dropping out of school, esp. high school is a bad idea. First of all, no one will take a high school aged kid seriously. Second of all it would seriously hurt their chances of gett…

I like the feeling when a script executes and does what would take me 10 hours to do, in 2 seconds.

I don't think what language you use to code an app really makes a difference in how killer your app is. Also this makes no sense because I'm pretty sure apple developers use object…

This is just my personal experience with friends who had add. My previous 2 roommates at two different places were taking ADD pills. Somehow after their pills ran out they kept com…

I regret studying CS. I would have rather gone for CE and learned more in depth about how the computer works. It seems like all the computer engineers at my school are really good …

I don't know about keyboard mappings. I'd rather press F10 to step through code rather than apple key + Shift + P or whatever it is. I'd also rather press F5 to debug than apple ke…

When I first started interning at this company, I always wondered why people were doing stupid things in code and I would fix it to be cleaner and the program would break. Then I w…

The problem is that everyone doing demoscene stuff got jobs and is getting paid for it now. Look at crysis, etc. No one cares about programming dick waving contests anymore, it's a…

Not every number is an integer. Could be a char or a short too. The sizes of those depends on the platform and if it's signed or unsigned.

The author treats a "hacker" as some kind of sub-human species and write an article on owning a "hacker" that reads as if it was a book on owning a dog or something. Hacker != Lack…

You go to a bar to socialize. Alcohol is a social lubricant. If you only want to drink, go to the deli, buy some beers, and drink at home.

I really don't see the authors point and completely disagree with him. Computers were originally used by people to get work done. It's why they were invented in the first place. An…

that almost sounds like a challenge

You're selling that as if it were so hard to get experience and get paid at the same time. I know this won't be popular, but Microsoft pays interns more than most people get paid h…