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"In reality" means that the working set of memory and time complexity on solving Chess (let alone Go) is vastly too large for computers now and in the future. I don't get why you t…

They're calling the Int 3 debugger instruction, I believe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INT_%28x86_instruction%29 I'd prefer to see this either with inline assembly, or using __deb…

I don't get your reasoning (mainly because all you've provided none). I wrote games, we used Boost heavily, on the PC, Xbox360, DS, Wii and PSP. I mean really heavily. Boost.Thread…

That is a different and far easier question. Try and work out the stated question, "heavier or lighter".

Well you've clearly never had to worry about memory paging and the cost of indirection, like I have (actually from memory I think you must have at some point?). The difference is r…

It also means running out of breath from doing too much. Curiously, in my karate dojo, we are taught to learn to fight whilst being winded - as in, having the wind knocked out of y…

It depends on which dojo you train at. In our (Shotokan) dojo, every couple of lessons or so, someone will ask "but that's illegal in a tournament, right?", to which our sensei lau…

Also, the Greens are gaining like crazy right now. Probably for two reasons: One, before about 4 years ago, there was 13 years of Liberal government (once again, they are capital-L…

Yes, that's fair for the PC (I was aware of this for the PC, which is why I said exceptions don't really matter on the PC). But (from memory) I don't believe the Xbox allows for th…

You're making two mistakes: One about how exceptions work, and another by not considering our constraints. Exceptions don't just add an overhead when they're thrown, they add overh…

But then you'd have some of the population calling themselves a collection of humyn. Back on topic: I still find both 'nerd' and 'geek' to be offensive. Although I don't find "geek…

Sorry, I can't see how this is an improvement over Boost::Phoenix: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_44_0/libs/spirit/phoenix/doc...

My first, my very first C++ project, started in Year 9 - coming from VB6 - was a 3D graphics engine. Yeah, that failed. It failed 5 times (fun fact - the fourth rewrite occurred mo…

Trojan horse? Strawman, baby! Using your gmail as a username isn't bad. It makes it easy to know where to send you emails for account details and such. However , I think GMail need…

Hi! I live in Australia, where the majority of people on ADSL2+ have speeds less than or equal to 4mb/s. Due to the geography (technically, topography) of our country, high-speed i…

Man, these guys talk about $20 mil as if it were chump change. Probably because they have all that blog-money now. If someone ever wants to buy my company for $20 mil, and I walk a…

Spot the Australian: Four Weetbix, and Orange Juice.

And for those wondering when you'd use this algorithm (as even academics don't seem to know!) - it is the go-to algorithm for implementing pathfinding in video games, and robotics.…

Oh, coincidence. I did this about twelve minutes ago. Yes, I've just tendered my resignation. I work in a large, large company. The place is okay, the people are good, the code is …

Conversely, it also encapsulates why Apple will never do well with a particular segment of its competition ;)

This may have no additional value to any aforementioned discussion or analysis, but: Hooray for grellas! He always makes me consider going back to uni and studying law.

Honestly, the most intelligent discussion of OpenGL, I find, invariably comes from GameDev.net: More specifically, watch this thread: http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.…

I do believe this is why my university teaches Java for one year, then C for the second, before you even get to glance at (C++|Python|Perl|C#|other). I'm a compiler-writer, and we …