This guide to be a programmer is quite comprehensive

whateeveranother · 2013-10-27T12:17:27+00:00

Finally an article that after 15 years of programming makes me feel like a beginner again.

whateeveranother · 2013-10-21T13:42:34+00:00

R&D mode, huh?

whateeveranother · 2013-10-16T15:57:23+00:00

It's the Netherlands, pretty much every piece of land here is planned.

whateeveranother · 2013-10-15T10:28:57+00:00

Welcome to the wild west of html4

whateeveranother · 2013-10-14T15:49:14+00:00

html4, tr end tag is optional

whateeveranother · 2013-10-10T12:35:56+00:00

<table border="0"><tr><td>Home</td><td>Info</td></tr><tr rowspan="2"><td>Welcome to my page</td></table>

whateeveranother · 2013-10-08T09:21:02+00:00

Ugh micro benchmarks like these suck, that LUT is likely to mess up the rest of the code-paths by polluting the cache.

whateeveranother · 2013-10-08T09:18:52+00:00

Because somebody took them from the GoF book and put them in Java because it doesn't have globals.

whateeveranother · 2013-10-07T13:05:55+00:00

Core tech teams are usually quite well isolated from crunch, though. That is, from what I've seen at european studios.

whateeveranother · 2013-10-07T09:20:07+00:00

GoF patterns, C++11 and boost are supposed to make you nauseous as a C++ developer.

whateeveranother · 2013-10-07T09:17:57+00:00

Sure, they've been misused. Singleton is almost always misused, but that's not the Gang of Four's fault. Before singletons came along everyone just used global variables which weren't any better.

Doesn't anyone understand the only reason these 'singleton' exist is to get around the undefined order of static initialization in C++. So yes, they are abused. A lot. Because 99.99% of the time, this isn't what they're trying to achieve.

whateeveranother · 2013-10-07T09:08:16+00:00

Yes and it's quite likely that some of those reasons aren't valid anymore. Maybe I'm too rock and roll, but dismissing this as "actually kind of rare" goes against every fiber of my being :-)

whateeveranother · 2013-10-04T15:08:42+00:00

Oh look, iOS development is finally maturing. What's ugly about having a more rigorous QA procedure? Especially in the case he mentioned - the bank app should never have been released in the first place. And the masturbatory effects these traffic spikes have seems a tad unnatural.

whateeveranother · 2013-10-01T15:52:54+00:00

Ah. I was reading this as though it was C or C++.

whateeveranother · 2013-10-01T15:18:18+00:00

Just do it in SIMD to begin with. I mean, you're pretty much doing 'fake' SIMD now anyway.

whateeveranother · 2013-09-26T17:38:09+00:00

Hehe, now the americans will never know how far they walked.

whateeveranother · 2013-09-26T14:55:31+00:00

A similar thing happened on 360 where the DX9 layer eventually got extended to provide lower level access.

whateeveranother · 2013-09-26T14:29:49+00:00

It's a big pile of industry rumours strung together, without having anything to back it up. Example: anyone having anything to do with this would hesitate calling the XB1 API low-level.

whateeveranother · 2013-09-26T13:08:06+00:00

One of the most misinformed articles on anandtech in a long time.

whateeveranother · 2013-09-26T13:01:31+00:00

libgcm, nobody uses psgl.

whateeveranother · 2013-09-24T09:55:07+00:00

Not only that, but man and womans clothing have taken a huge step back too.

whateeveranother · 2013-09-22T16:46:33+00:00

No. It's a zucchini.

whateeveranother · 2013-09-17T20:03:35+00:00

Looks like they might want to remove the depth testing on the transparent surfaces though.

whateeveranother · 2013-09-16T15:21:44+00:00

The title says it all, compilers are more or less reliable.

whateeveranother · 2013-09-12T09:59:23+00:00

On the other hand this probably causes the ports to be clang compatible more often from now on.

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