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I think the Microsoft situation is different (due to the scale, expectations of their customers of several decades, and global dependence upon their operating system) and totally i…

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>The header-only approach from Sean Barrett is quite a bit different than the header-only approach from C++: I'm aware, but the practical advantages of having a library in a single…

It's a different directory for every version of Visual Studio (and obviously mingw doesn't use it), ergo it's not a standard directory like /usr/include His point is that it's argu…

Most C and C++ programmers I know hate dragging in large dependencies (increase in build and runtime complexity, code size, "can I debug this if I have a problem," etc), and would …

From the popular (in game development circles, at least) stb libraries: >Why single-file headers? >Windows doesn't have standard directories where libraries live. That makes deploy…

You mean like when Microsoft tried to force adoption of Windows Vista by not bringing DirectX 10 to XP, and in response developers stuck with DirectX 9 for years ? A huge portion o…

You're probably aware of this, but the PC-Engine (TurboGrafx's Japanese counterpart) actually did very well in Japan, beating the Mega Drive for second place in that market.

People underestimate the CPU load of modern games. There's a lot of graphics API overhead in current D3D and GL (though D3D12 and Vulkan will improve upon that), use of dynamic scr…

Ah, I did miss that. Also, lest I scare people off from Splatoon, I should note that I spent $300 on the Splatoon Wii U bundle just to play it, and would do so again in a heartbeat…

I don't believe the reward system works as described, because I have personally seen rewards of anywhere from 8 to 12 points for victories in B and A ranked games. My guess is that…

The sad thing is, they fixed this a while ago with a stylesheet that adjusted the page width and text size to fit your display, but reverted it after a bunch of people whined hard.…

http://www.1101.com/home.html “When I’m parting with a friend, regardless of the circumstances, I find it best to just say, ‘See you later.’ We’ll meet again. After all, we’re frie…

Man, if there ever was an instance of alienating a sympathetic audience, this would be it. How does one take a golden argument like "privacy is an inalienable right," turn it into …

>If the CEO was some boring old white man, nobody would be calling for his head like this, nor would they be the best person to be publishing apologies. You mean like Brendan Eich?…

The elephant in the room here is that children in the 21st century have little to no freedom or personal control. The days of packs of children running around town or exploring the…