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You can always render the text to a texture offline as a signed distance field and just draw out quads as needed at render time. This will always be faster than drawing from the cu…

Only in the random case. Already sorted in either direction and it's ~10x slower.

The bill is not split -- it says they reimburse you for the measured power usage of the device. Nowhere does it say that this only applies when the heat is being directed into your…

Apart from the point in the first video when they click on a link and you can still see the smudge of the text column on the newly cleared screen. A close look at the text column w…

Most of it was readable, but the printf on lines 57--59 made me retch. I see what it's doing, but it's not what I'd call easily maintainable: printf("%8.4s", &"LEA ,IMM ,JMP ,JSR ,…

Because that's what makes it a unit test -- you only want the unit, the tests and any stubs/mocks in the executable. Anything more and you have an integration test on your hands. P…

It looks like a nice test framework, but it doesn't appear to help at all with the really hard problems you face with testing C++ -- isolating the unit under test for separate comp…

> Thus - at the same bitrate - higher resolution images might look worse than lower resolution ones. But the 4K stream is HEVC (H.265) vs H.264 for the other HD streams, so it may …

Apple did just release online versions of the iWork apps with collaboration (I don't know how well it works in real-time, but then I don't know that for Office either). They also m…

This seems specific to image-based fingerprint sensors? Apple's version does not appear to work this way...

Average speed checks are awful — I spend more time looking at the speedo than I do the road, as I try to keep close to the limit while not hitting the car in front. And they are al…

Milling seems like a better bet (than printing) for home PCBs without the etching. It's cheaper and more accurate, like this one: http://www.coolcomponents.co.uk/catalog/imodela-mi…

In fairness the TI launchpads are astoundingly cheap -- as far as I have seen, very few of the other competitors have dev boards at that sort of price. The mbed board is similar to…

Just from the descriptions and photos, it looks like the mini will be breadboardable. The bigger one almost certainly not -- it's arduino compatible and the gap on one side is visi…

For developers, I suspect it's less about trust and more about providing something of value to a group of people who are already known to be willing to pay for such things.

> Legal? - possibly. Ethical? - not to me. How is this not evasion of labor laws? That this is par-for-the-course is pretty dismaying. Surely Samsung aren't doing this for the work…

There is what looks like bounce back at around 0:36 onwards in this video review: http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/samsung-nexus-s-at/4505-... It's some sort of app list screen …

I see less of this on ios devices, but that may be because I keep up–to-date with newer hardware. I guess devs are targeting the older devices that are still in use -- together wit…

I've been using the ikea standing desk from a few weeks ago -- the lack side table with a shelf screwed to it. I simply put my laptop on top and then use the rest of the normal hei…

I think intel would bend over backwards to get their processors in an apple phone; it would completely open the mobile market for them. They already give apple some influence anywa…

Yeah, that last part is my concern -- if I can't use FP on a daily basis, is it still worth my time to try learning it?

Fascinating, thanks. I would have said that the for-loop is at least somewhat intuitive -- the step-by-step (lather, rinse, repeat) nature resembles the way most instruction sets a…

Do maps, folds and filters become as natural as for-loops in time? (If you have already been exposed to more traditional techniques). They strike me as similar to regular expressio…

It's largely intended for the retina MacBook pro, which has two thunderbolt ports, but I do agree -- many of the early peripherals seem to lack support for daisy chaining. As for t…

A product developed while Steve was away from Apple, a project he was forced away from, a success (if not up to iPhone levels) and a probable future success (for Intel!). What's yo…