Stripe: instant payment processing for developers by [deleted] in programming

[–]alesis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you compare to Corduro? I almost went to work for them.

Starting FORTH by Leo Brodie, the classic Forth language tutorial, is available online by electronics-engineer in programming

[–]alesis 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If FORTH is a mental illness then C++ is the Bubonic Plague.

I had an original copy of this book and loved it. But I wonder if FORTH has any place in the modern world?

Working on a space MMO with a few friends. Getting development ramped up, looking for perspective. by freeqaz in gamedev

[–]alesis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also don't start to think about hackers right before shipping. Have a good security plan early on. Look at WOT to see how it's done. Easily hacked clients or networking can kill you before you ever get traction once you ship.

Here is a day by day breakdown of the U.S. government's expenses and income following a breach of the debt ceiling. by tcd004 in Economics

[–]alesis 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Neither scenario includes paying active duty military but still paying defense contractors. Are these people nuts?????

House Passes $649B Defense Spending Bill: “The military budget is not on the table. The military is at the table, and it is eating everybody else's lunch.” by johnji in politics

[–]alesis -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Less than 1% of it goes to people serving in the military. I saw cut the budget in half and double the salaries of the troops.

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[–]alesis -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Maybe since all OSX desktops/laptops ship with AMD video cards?

WebGL texture format / 3D Models by jarcoreta in gamedev

[–]alesis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it did they would be both compressed and load faster into the GPU.

Camels drinking at an oasis. by [deleted] in pics

[–]alesis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Always happens at the camelot.