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Isn't it this case no matter who wrote the code? How do you ever run anything if you're worried about bugs?

He may be referring to the fact that it could be pronounced Auschwitz. I must admit, my immediate thought on reading the name was "why would someone name their app after a concentr…

Most games don't have the time budget for that. Visuals take precedence, and it's not easy to get to 60fps as it is, especially if you're doing a lot of other processing. And steal…

I realise for casual users Windows is always going to be the OS of choice if for no other reason than it comes pre-installed and most people don't know how to reinstall an operatin…

It's not that we think it's arcane or that we are in our own "bubbles of thought", it's that we aren't doing math. We're programming a computer. And a competent programmer would kn…

Maybe, but a circuit designer is pretty high up the list of things that need to be boring and functional.

Kim Justice has a good documentary on Sensible Software, which I highly recommend if you're at all interested in Sensible Soccer or their other games like Cannon Fodder or Mega Lo …

Things such as function overloading, operator overloading, dynamic dispatch, etc, are all conveinient but also obscure what is actually happening. To take C++ as an example (I love…

My first job was as a COBOL programmer on an IBM mainframe (OS/370 I believe) for Xerox. The system was absolutely massive and incredibly difficult to navigate. There were thousand…

I don't really understand this idea of never taking your hands off the keyboard. Maybe people program differently to me, but most of the time I'm not typing anything. Most of my ti…

Karl Jobst (does a lot of speedrunnig videos) has a video on this, which is worth watching and explains everything in detail. https://youtu.be/58fqNL-kvaI

I have a similar nitpick with boolean arguments. How many times have you seen something like: DoSomething(true, false, false)? It's much more readable if you use enums (in a langua…

If you're developing on Windows, I find a good way of dealing with this to convert paths to short format before using them (E.G. GetShortPathName in kernel32.dll).

I think the point he's trying to make is even if you know how to deadlift correctly the amount weight involved carries a high risk of injury. Cleans on the other hand involve lower…

>Take a book out of Eddie Hall's playbook who says the exact same thing... And he's literally the strongest man in the world. Robert Oberst, another WSM competitor also says the sa…

Here is a good video tour of a similar thing in Jordan by premier Permaculture instructor Geoff Lawton. https://youtu.be/6fj0oeyREeM

I'm currently working on a VB6 front-end (I say front end, but it 450,000 lines so probably a bit more to it!) with C++ back-end (and it's old C++ that uses MFC containers instead …

Are you sure you're burned out? It sounds to me like you just don't like working with your team lead, and he, apparently, doesn't like you too much, either. Sometimes people feel t…

I come accross these .io games from time-to-time, and I've always wondered how they make their money. Does anyone have an insight on this?

Actually, 3 is two orders of magnitude (or just 1 depending on whether you count 1 as an order of magnitude or not) more than 0.3 0.3 = 3 * 10^-1, which is -1 order of magnitude 3 …

Isn't this the same idea as the Introsort[1], which was created in 1997 (four years earlier) and is the default sorting algorithm in C++'s standard library (and .NET framework sinc…

C++, rather than C, but there was a GOTW post about this years ago, which explains the situation in detail. http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/081.htm

Very common in my experience. In 16 years and 4 different companies, I've only worked on 2 projects (of dozons) that had a well established test process. The 2 projects in question…

This is also true in the UK. Any supermarket will stock lard, beef dripping, duck and goose fat. https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/300346570 https://www.tesco.com/groc…

Duke Nukem 3D didn't use raycasting, either [0]. 0 - http://fabiensanglard.net/duke3d/build_engine_internals.php