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Google controls Android due to the PlayStore Just an anecdote. I'm currently living in China and me and the other expats were always kinda amused that local Chinese are willing to …

One thing that needs to be stressed is that realistically there is a rather limited amount of Uranium than can be extracted from the earth for nuclear power. That if we could magic…

I'm not really fully involved in the ecosystem too much, but has open source hardware really paid off? Like I see that you can get cheap knockoff Arduinos - but that's not really m…

The problem is immature tooling. There is no feedback loop from the compiler's generated assembly back to the IDE. We finally have libclang which sorta does some stuff (I'm not ent…

uhhh, well I'm sure the space race didn't help in reducing tensions.. but you know all the proxy wars and thousands of soldiers dieing prolly played a bigger role. There really sho…

Except it's going to go hand in hand with nationalism and fear-mongering. It won't bring people together and that ultimately a lot more sad.

I think this is only true when you look at political speech (where the sacred phrase "founding fathers" can justify most things) But ultimately at this point the US is culturally o…

The rational for killing the local population is fundamentally different Nanking was massacred as punitive action for resistance, not as a means of creating space for the Japanese.…

At least when it comes to startups this makes total sense. Work is increasingly both your work and your life. Your friends are increasingly your colleagues. Traditionally you don't…

I saw plenty of domesticated elephants in Thailand (and I assume all of South East Asia). Are African elephant some how different when it comes to this?

I need to open a bank account in China next month - out of curiosity, in what way are they one of the most modern? :)

It has an "atmosphere" It's 0.00628 atm according to Wikipedia. That's effectively a vacuum. You can't have liquid water on Mars. So you can grow plants in some kind of transparent…

I really like this workflow, but my major grip is that the autogenerated merge commits are terribly ugly and uninformative. I'm sure you can override them, but no one seems to ever…

Okay, but at that point you're talking about things that are way beyond the capabilities of an iterative loop. I think my point still stands - that implementing a tail recursion in…

this is outside my field of expertise. Can you give an example of a tail call that needs "trickery"? I'm not 100% on this, but when you have a tail call I don't think you have to r…

the CPU is just doing a jump to an instruction at the end of each iteration. When you do tail call recursion you are doing just that. The assembly jumps to a tag and in recursion y…

I assume Adobe is in the title and eBay and Intel aren't for some reason

Do people really get viruses through their browsers still? Can't think of that happening to anyone I know

I've definitely come across it being referenced for use in games. Specifically the "Component" design pattern is supposed to use it. It's kinda described here: http://gameprogrammi…

I've definitely come across it being referenced for use in games. Specifically the "Component" design pattern is supposed to use it. It's kinda described here: http://gameprogrammi…

I'd second "Effective Modern C++" by Scott Meyers and point out that while the book was written for C++11 most of the new features of C++14 extend and polish off those existing fea…

I've never had the occasion to use an SQL database. But say I was writing a game using C++ - at what point would I go from managing a bunch of maps or vectors of entities to using …

How is Adobe involved? This is Python + OpenCV, but I'm under the impression Adobe is a pretty serious C++ shop and has their own graphics libraries (I'm mainly aware of boost::GIL…

I think there is a big cultural element. Not to say other cultures are immune to conspiracy-theory thinking, but something about American exceptionalism seems to encourage it.

I don't want to see those things either. I don't go on Facebook for some historical reality check, or to be reminded of the horrors that are happening around the world. Every news …