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And to think my team is migrating to CentOS 8 as we speak...

Flow fields are also great for reducing the amount of computation required to generate pathfinding for a large number of entities in a game world. I implemented flow fields as the …

Yes, throughout High School. At that point I had become socially disconnected and didn't have many friends. There were a few people who stood out from the usual put-downs and idiot…

A lot of the people I saw in college who were CS majors didn't really seem to care about CS as a topic and only saw it as a lucrative career path. These same people would constantl…

These teachers need to know about WolframAlpha...

This is a good point. Given the unreliability of voice recognition, an app would be preferable. But also, even a touchscreen where you can select your order would be a better idea.…

I've been really looking forward to this for the last couple years, and am glad to see it finally released, but I must have missed the memo when they put a price tag on it, because…

Only application I've used this for so far is a technique for defining and recognizing gestures. They're called "flash gestures" (or that's what the page where I read about them ca…

I love how the High School edition of Down and Out in Paris and London says it was edited by Moira Propeat...... in 2105.

I'm working on Grave Wave, a top-down zombie shooter with a dark synthwave aesthetic. I've got most of the core gameplay worked out, but am currently working on overhauling the gam…

As someone who has been playing games for well over 25 years and who has a Vive, I DO think that VR is the future of gaming, just not in its current state. I think the biggest barr…

If SCP-3137 is viewed, the subject shall be immediately taken into custody and then fed to SCP-682.

Here are a few recommendations based on things I've read this year and last: - Infinite by Jeremy Robinson - The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (this series is a rabbit hole) - …

Why the hell would you even use a "virtual" card? With the rate at which personal data is being stolen day after day and companies as large as Equifax being breached, why would you…

When I first went to college for my Associate's Degree, we learned C++ and had the option to choose between Java and Visual Basic. I chose Java, obviously, because who the hell wan…

You could bring in a Raspberry Pi and show them how they can modify Minecraft on the fly with Python.

I don't take any medication for it, but music can help, and over the years, I've gotten better at focusing by simply willing myself to do it. There are definitely a lot of days whe…

For that matter, it would be cool to see a breakdown of how even earlier games like Elite for the NES achieved their pseudo-3D using wire mesh graphics and how they packed so much …

I see in the comments that he has been working on a Quake Black Book, but I hope he plans to eventually do books on other types of games as well, instead of just Carmack/Romero-cen…

Something isn't "coding" just because it involves following a set of instructions... you could argue that a knitting pattern is an algorithm of sorts, but that doesn't make it codi…

Yeah, except that if they were to start failing and needed a bailout, you can bet that would fall on the farmers, because they have enough of a stranglehold on the business that it…

I can definitely relate to his feelings of not being taken seriously in school and being put in the spotlight without oversight. I frequently did dumb things when I was in middle s…

I can't imagine anyone is surprised by this. I've been hearing horror stories about PayPal since the mid 2000s. They're a garbage company, and the only reason people don't use some…

I've spent the past two years remaking my first game from 2013. I know that even though it has come a LONG way since the original, it probably won't sell, but I do it anyway simply…

What a load of crap... "why do schools focus on unmarketable skills?" Gee, I don't know? Maybe because we shouldn't be teaching kids that they only exist to learn about a trade so …