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The elision of the 'e' in -cester placenames so that the 'c' and 's' have a single sound is reasonably common e.g. Leicester, Gloucester, Worcester, Towcester, Bicester. So English…

> In UK only people who are explicitly listed on the insurance document can drive the car That's not entirely true, it depends on your insurance. It's an offence to drive a car wit…

It's an easily recognizable icon that indicates which room to use and doesn't rely on which language you speak. For English speakers M and F might be just as easy, but which would …

Google is half right. One translation for "quod" is because, or reason for, which is the sense that Google is presumably using here. You're probably after "ratio" from "reor" meani…

I've got several hundred bookmarks, but they're certainly better sorted than the apps on my phone. I've got them in subfolders by type, and as another poster noted the address bar …

This article misses that the browser version of installing an app on a computer is bookmarking a web page in your browser. With cloud syncing I can even take my bookmarks with me a…

There are some parts of the engine like move generation and searching that are nicely parallelizable with goroutines. As far as I know Go provides limited support for intrinsics, b…

For console games C++ is unlikely to be replaced in the near future, although an ever increasing portion of the game code is likely to be written in a scripting engine on top of an…

"your application will move to the top of the pile...regardless of your qualifications." I've not used the LinkedIn job boards, but the rest of the article implies that the rest of…

These are quite different circumstances though. Bethesda were trying to apply their trademark in an overly broad way to an unconnected game, whereas the makers on your site are usi…

http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/technical/game-progr... gives a fairly reasonable progression, and in general gamedev.net has a lot of useful tutorials and articles.

Technically an overflow on a signed variable results in undefined behaviour so it could crash out, but all the compilers I've tried just wrap around.

I'll quite happily take the snacks if it means I can code in peace all day and not have to worry about finding funding, talking to investors, keeping the company running, etc. They…

World of Goo (90%), Machinarium(90%-95%) and the PC Gaming Alliance (90% for high end titles) have all claimed piracy rates of 90% or above. Also there seems to be a gap in your re…

That's anecdotal evidence too. There's nothing to show that it being DRM free caused it to be pirated more. I've seen figures that suggest that 90% of installs of a game come from …

> "DRM-free scares the shit out of me" Why? DRM certainly doesn't prevent piracy, and from at least anecdotal evidence removing DRM reduces piracy and increases sales. There are a …

It depends entirely on the senior dev. If it were me I'd be glad for the pointers from someone more experience with the language than me. Even the most junior of devs probably know…

That was to develop one of their iterations, it was a team of 20 working for three or four years. I can't find the source, it may well have been a talk at GDC.

If they're good, yes. Look at Unreal, id Tech, Unity. For AAA console games, a large number of them license the Unreal engine from Epic. For mobile and smaller games the Unity engi…

If I'm at a restaurant looking at the menu it's because I'm doing something out of the ordinary. Maybe I'm on holiday, or I'm treating myself (or someone else), or celebrating. In …

There's a talk by Randall Munroe (xkcd) at google where this is debunked by Knuth himself. It also features him being asked questions about Python by Guido. http://www.youtube.com/…

>I’m not really suggesting that you permanently disable the h, j, k, and l keys. ... But...If it forces you out of your comfort zone and encourages you to use wordwise motions, cha…

Actually studies suggest that for "knowledge workers" like programmers 25 minutes is the average amount of time it takes to recover from an interruption to a task. So half an hour …

This wasn't lost at all, several sites and newspapers mentioned it. The answers were that Tesla collects this data on all cars given out to journalists for test drives and any cars…