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True | [deleted] | null | Wikibooks is so 90s. | null | 0 | 1318134178 | False | 0 | c2pzn9u | t3_l5410 | null | t1_c2pzn9u | t1_c2puybv | null | 1427705865 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NoahFect | null | Those frame rates are impacted by a hell of a lot of code besides the graphics API. | null | 0 | 1318134230 | False | 0 | c2pzngp | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2pzngp | t1_c2px4x8 | null | 1427705868 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | koft | null | That has everything to do with Ogre3D's implementation and virtually nothing to do with OpenGL vs DirectX. | null | 0 | 1318134287 | False | 0 | c2pznpg | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2pznpg | t1_c2px4x8 | null | 1427705871 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | s73v3r | null | Considering the bullet point says "5 Years SQL Server 2008", then yes, I can get that they are asking for 5 Years of SQL Server 2008 experience, and thus have no idea what they're talking about. | null | 0 | 1318134489 | False | 0 | c2pzoir | t3_l4b56 | null | t1_c2pzoir | t1_c2pr6tc | null | 1427705881 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Yeah, just like getting most programs to work in wine is purely academic. | null | 0 | 1318135293 | False | 0 | c2pzroe | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2pzroe | t1_c2pydek | null | 1427705921 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BinaryRockStar | null | Which is why VB6 is the ultimate programming language with near universal adoption.
[rockstar fistbump] | null | 0 | 1318135429 | False | 0 | c2pzs79 | t3_l55ah | null | t1_c2pzs79 | t1_c2pvitn | null | 1427705928 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mortanian | null | Doxygen documentation is generated from code comments.
a) it compiles away
b) it can't be closer to the context to which it applies
c) reading math is possible, reading code is easier, but reading plain english is usually preferred to somebody having to access unfamiliar territory.
d) it beats 'voodoo code'. | null | 0 | 1318135602 | False | 0 | c2pzsu2 | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pzsu2 | t1_c2pph54 | null | 1427705937 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318135801 | False | 0 | c2pztm2 | t3_l55ki | null | t1_c2pztm2 | t1_c2pxgxv | null | 1427705947 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xTRUMANx | null | I know him as the guy who threw a hissy fit and then left the ruby community. | null | 0 | 1318136123 | False | 0 | c2pzutk | t3_l55ah | null | t1_c2pzutk | t1_c2px6qa | null | 1427705964 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pas_mtts | null | What you said is limitations of the WP7 API, not the C# language. | null | 0 | 1318136228 | False | 0 | c2pzv7t | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pzv7t | t1_c2prdl0 | null | 1427705969 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | paulydavis | null | Will _why ever re-surface? | null | 0 | 1318136358 | False | 0 | c2pzvpl | t3_l466j | null | t1_c2pzvpl | t1_c2pn4on | null | 1427705976 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mortanian | null | The trouble with not starting with ASM/C is a person tends to carry-on without a healthy respect for memory management. Then we see wild "slurping" where it isn't appropriate; loading a large amount of data into memory and then parsing it (rather than parsing it progressively), scalar/deep copies all over the place, a... | null | 0 | 1318136525 | False | 0 | c2pzwb0 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pzwb0 | t1_c2pjypm | null | 1427705982 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Wolfspaw | null | This is one of my favorite programming blogs. | null | 0 | 1318136857 | False | 0 | c2pzxk6 | t3_l5rfz | null | t1_c2pzxk6 | t3_l5rfz | null | 1427705999 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ok_you_win | null | Sure. But that is far more broad in scope than OGL vs D3D (and somewhat off topic). | null | 0 | 1318136921 | False | 0 | c2pzxtg | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2pzxtg | t1_c2pzroe | null | 1427706003 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | atomic1fire | null | Apple gains a huge market of games by proxy, and microsoft get's a one up on opengl.
Both get gains over sony, google/android, etc.
Would it be likely, or even happen.
Nope,
Could it make smart business senses?
If it succeeds.
If Apple offers DirectX on the mac and it's mobile products, the end result would be a a... | null | 0 | 1318136927 | False | 0 | c2pzxuc | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2pzxuc | t1_c2pwm6l | null | 1427706003 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | call_me_xale | null | You *created an account* just to say this? What the hell?
Dude, it was a joke. Lighten up. | null | 0 | 1318137529 | True | 0 | c2q001f | t3_l3ct9 | null | t1_c2q001f | t1_c2pjgsi | null | 1427706034 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ghjm | null | So don't apply for the job. I know what they mean and will be happy not to have you as a competitor. | null | 0 | 1318137699 | False | 0 | c2q00o1 | t3_l4b56 | null | t1_c2q00o1 | t1_c2pzoir | null | 1427706041 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318138127 | False | 0 | c2q027h | t3_l466j | null | t1_c2q027h | t1_c2pzvpl | null | 1427706068 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | paulydavis | null | If that was true would you not see his "signature" under this new found identity. | null | 0 | 1318138443 | False | 0 | c2q03e2 | t3_l466j | null | t1_c2q03e2 | t1_c2q027h | null | 1427706081 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bobindashadows | null | If you couldn't afford to file the patent, you *really* couldn't afford the lawsuit settling "first to invent" when you see someone file the patent you couldn't afford in the old system. Neither system is particularly lenient to the "little guy." | null | 0 | 1318138851 | False | 0 | c2q04u8 | t3_l3ct9 | null | t1_c2q04u8 | t1_c2pl2g9 | null | 1427706098 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318139038 | False | 0 | c2q05i0 | t3_l466j | null | t1_c2q05i0 | t1_c2q03e2 | null | 1427706119 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GMNightmare | null | a) It compiles away is completely irrelevant. Nobody cares that comments compile away, unless you thought I was trying to say this was a stupid thing to do because of some false sense of thinking comments slow it down.
I wasn't.
b) A link or reference immediately connects it to the context in which it applies. But th... | null | 0 | 1318139334 | False | 0 | c2q06jx | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2q06jx | t1_c2pzsu2 | null | 1427706123 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | berkut | null | Yeah, and whole program optimisation can help a lot as well. | null | 0 | 1318139442 | False | 0 | c2q06xs | t3_l4p6z | null | t1_c2q06xs | t1_c2px25u | null | 1427706125 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | berkut | null | I'm surprised that AMD aren't contributing to LLVM, as they don't have a compiler in the same way Intel do, and it would be good to get LLVM's optimisations at least on par with GCC, if not better. I'm hoping that LLVM eventually can get to the level of ICC. | null | 0 | 1318139610 | False | 0 | c2q07h7 | t3_l4p6z | null | t1_c2q07h7 | t1_c2psy4j | null | 1427706139 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | InternetPowered | null | More complex than emacs?! | null | 0 | 1318139613 | False | 0 | c2q07hi | t3_l47co | null | t1_c2q07hi | t1_c2psxzv | null | 1427706139 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | This is the coolest thing ever. | null | 0 | 1318140414 | False | 0 | c2q0a4d | t3_l5s9p | null | t1_c2q0a4d | t3_l5s9p | null | 1427706163 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | killerstorm | null | > A decent IDE that will show you callers/references and a good set of commenting and documentation will get you there a lot quicker and with a lot more precision.
It takes much more time to go through callers/references than to merely look at the list.
> It's not a place for you to stuff automatic "mumbo jum... | null | 0 | 1318140471 | False | 0 | c2q0ab3 | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2q0ab3 | t1_c2prtpx | null | 1427706166 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | OpenGL is also used a lot in medical/scientific imagery and in the academic community. So yes, it's an eternal battle. | null | 0 | 1318140793 | False | 0 | c2q0bbz | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2q0bbz | t1_c2pvkom | null | 1427706181 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | arrmed | null | Has anyone actually interviewed for a job that had something along these lines as their ad that you followed up? | null | 0 | 1318140994 | False | 0 | c2q0bzl | t3_l5sz7 | null | t1_c2q0bzl | t3_l5sz7 | null | 1427706194 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AlexFromOmaha | null | That's 60 million out of 7 billion. Mac's market share is still well short of 10%.
You can say what you want about OpenGL on the rest of the platforms out there, but you don't make one graphics engine for the Wii, the 360, iOS, and OSX. That's completely nonsensical. Targeting OpenGL means you're still targeting one p... | null | 0 | 1318141580 | False | 0 | c2q0dwb | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2q0dwb | t1_c2py429 | null | 1427706212 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | s73v3r | null | The Xbox may be the "second place console", but it still has a very significant install base.
Not to mention that the Wii and PS3 don't use OpenGL. They have their own proprietary libraries. | null | 0 | 1318141914 | False | 0 | c2q0exb | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2q0exb | t1_c2pwlm7 | null | 1427706227 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | s73v3r | null | Or, you can pick an engine that abstracts both of them away from you, and have support for everything. | null | 0 | 1318141949 | False | 0 | c2q0f1n | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2q0f1n | t1_c2px041 | null | 1427706228 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | s73v3r | null | Which isn't really a compelling market right now. | null | 0 | 1318141966 | False | 0 | c2q0f37 | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2q0f37 | t1_c2pyqnh | null | 1427706229 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | s73v3r | null | >as many developers currently often port games to Android as a second platform, as the OpenGL code is very portable. With DirectX available on iOS, it's likely Windows Phone 7 would become the "secondary" platform, replacing Android
While availability of OpenGL does have something to do with it, the install base of... | null | 0 | 1318142096 | False | 0 | c2q0fib | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2q0fib | t1_c2pwm6l | null | 1427706235 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | s73v3r | null | I don't think it would be very beneficial to Apple, at least on the iOS side. They're already the main platform for most mobile game studios, and they've already invested in OpenGL ES. Adding DirectX support doesn't gain Apple a whole lot, and opens up easy portability with WP7. | null | 0 | 1318142269 | False | 0 | c2q0g19 | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2q0g19 | t1_c2pxwrn | null | 1427706241 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tias | null | I think we're on the same page, I just wanted to point out that there's nothing in the technical features that makes one better than the other. It's the human factor that makes the difference, if you will. Perhaps that's why debates tend to become religious. | null | 0 | 1318142435 | False | 0 | c2q0ghj | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2q0ghj | t1_c2pxd9o | null | 1427706247 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | s73v3r | null | Apple's mobile products already have a huge market of games. Bringing DirectX to iOS doesn't gain them a whole lot, and it makes things easy for developers to port things back to WP7. | null | 0 | 1318142436 | False | 0 | c2q0ghs | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2q0ghs | t1_c2pzxuc | null | 1427706247 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | s73v3r | null | No. Open or Proprietary doesn't really have a bearing on the software's overall quality. The group of developers behind the software does. There are open source projects that are amazing, and there are open source projects that are absolute shit. Same with proprietary software. | null | 0 | 1318142640 | False | 0 | c2q0h2i | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2q0h2i | t1_c2pw2b3 | null | 1427706255 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | s73v3r | null | Neither of your conditions are true, though. Developers are CHOOSING to use D3D over OpenGL. | null | 0 | 1318142716 | False | 0 | c2q0h9q | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2q0h9q | t1_c2pxc1o | null | 1427706257 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | s73v3r | null | Just as much of an argument as the person he was responding to. | null | 0 | 1318142751 | False | 0 | c2q0hda | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2q0hda | t1_c2pwo7z | null | 1427706259 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | s73v3r | null | Better idea: Use a library that abstracts both of them away, and don't worry about which one is better. | null | 0 | 1318142863 | False | 0 | c2q0hq4 | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2q0hq4 | t1_c2pwjkv | null | 1427706263 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mikaelhg | null | This one was. When it was streamed in the JavaOne feed, I groaned, as it appears to be written by someone who's only personal familiarity with the topic is watching Office Space and reading industry press releases. | null | 0 | 1318142874 | False | 0 | c2q0hr1 | t3_l55ki | null | t1_c2q0hr1 | t1_c2pztm2 | null | 1427706263 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Saw M$, stopped reading. | null | 0 | 1318142880 | False | 0 | c2q0hrk | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2q0hrk | t1_c2pwp73 | null | 1427706263 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | s73v3r | null | Targeting OpenGL means your game runs on all of the desktops out there. | null | 0 | 1318142914 | False | 0 | c2q0hvm | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2q0hvm | t1_c2q0dwb | null | 1427706266 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | s73v3r | null | Which would take a fuckload of time and effort, not to mention a fuckload of debugging. Time and effort which would be far better spent actually working on the game. | null | 0 | 1318143127 | False | 0 | c2q0ii2 | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2q0ii2 | t1_c2pyz75 | null | 1427706273 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | washort | null | It's the difference between your language and your versioning tool work together and having them be totally ignorant of each other.
| null | 0 | 1318143325 | False | 0 | c2q0j2i | t3_l3f3y | null | t1_c2q0j2i | t1_c2pgliu | null | 1427706280 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AlexFromOmaha | null | Do you know why Macs are relatively free of malware? Protip: it's not respect for Steve Jobs. | null | 0 | 1318143393 | False | 0 | c2q0j9f | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2q0j9f | t1_c2q0hvm | null | 1427706283 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BrowsOfSteel | null | >On Linux AFAIK it's only nVidia and ATi/AMD
As opposed to what? Intel integrated? Integrated chipsets hardly have enough performance to warrant the effort. | null | 0 | 1318143512 | False | 0 | c2q0jlu | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2q0jlu | t1_c2pyenq | null | 1427706287 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | drb226 | null | Could be cooler if they demonstrated the "collaborative jamming" part of it. | null | 0 | 1318143746 | False | 0 | c2q0kav | t3_l5s9p | null | t1_c2q0kav | t1_c2q0a4d | null | 1427706296 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NukeThePope | null | Thanks for your thoroughness, but the problem is meanwhile completely out of my brain... if I come across something like this again I'll be able to ask a better informed question. | null | 0 | 1318143976 | False | 0 | c2q0kwz | t3_j5r6w | null | t1_c2q0kwz | t1_c2py534 | null | 1427706304 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rooly | null | The market: "Games on Windows"
The regulatory actor: Microsoft, providing Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, and 7.
The actions of the regulatory actor: Pressure vendors to provide better drivers for Direct3D on Windows via advertising, branding benefits, driver signing, etc.
What was it you were saying? | null | 0 | 1318144085 | False | 0 | c2q0l74 | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2q0l74 | t1_c2pxgwk | null | 1427706309 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rooly | null | Yes, and developers are CHOOSING Win32-API, and Cocoa, and XCode, and hundreds of other proprietary solutions, because either it hasn't reached long-term yet, or the market is being influenced.
What the vender chooses to provide is based solely on what is most profitable in the market. Open solutions are eventually th... | null | 0 | 1318144405 | False | 0 | c2q0m00 | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2q0m00 | t1_c2q0h9q | null | 1427706320 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rooly | null | Not a word was spoken about software quality. Only that open solutions eventually beat out proprietary solutions, given a fair market. | null | 0 | 1318144747 | False | 0 | c2q0mw5 | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2q0mw5 | t1_c2q0h2i | null | 1427706331 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Kyrox | null | That voice made me feel like I was watching a Zero Punctuation episode.
I love this stuff though, but I'll really be impressed if I can install it without spending 10 hours troubleshooting. Never had one of these sorts of things work without a *lot* of pain. | null | 0 | 1318145545 | False | 0 | c2q0oxy | t3_l5s9p | null | t1_c2q0oxy | t3_l5s9p | null | 1427706357 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | epenthesis | null | For a moment there, I thought I understood monads, but nope, there's an "oi", not an "a".
| null | 0 | 1318145547 | False | 0 | c2q0oy7 | t3_l5n8e | null | t1_c2q0oy7 | t3_l5n8e | null | 1427706357 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | maechtigerAal | null | [Link](http://overtone.github.com/) | null | 0 | 1318145649 | False | 0 | c2q0p6s | t3_l5s9p | null | t1_c2q0p6s | t3_l5s9p | null | 1427706361 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheNativeRaver | null | That would be awesome combined with fluxus.
http://vimeo.com/408511 | null | 0 | 1318145662 | False | 0 | c2q0p7y | t3_l5s9p | null | t1_c2q0p7y | t3_l5s9p | null | 1427706361 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | Silverlight is definitely DOA, regarding security though, [it's not so hot](http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/06/developer-silverlight-has-the.php). | null | 0 | 1318145843 | False | 0 | c2q0pnt | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2q0pnt | t1_c2pybc7 | null | 1427706368 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | snarfy | null | I'm surprised it took this long for Windows to get copy-on-write, a feature linux has had for ages. | null | 0 | 1318145971 | False | 0 | c2q0pym | t3_l48nw | null | t1_c2q0pym | t3_l48nw | null | 1427706371 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | imrofli | null | about the same thing (at least for eclipse), it's developed at my university: [Includator](http://includator.com/) | null | 0 | 1318145974 | False | 0 | c2q0pyv | t3_l57iw | null | t1_c2q0pyv | t3_l57iw | null | 1427706371 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Hot_Pie | null | > The only OGL titles that still ship are titles that use legacy ID stuff, basically.
Blizzard releases all their games on Mac and PC, and the Civilization games are also released on Mac. Even Valve has released all their source games on Mac, and stated that all future games from them will be released on both platf... | null | 0 | 1318146055 | False | 0 | c2q0q5k | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2q0q5k | t1_c2pwp73 | null | 1427706373 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fruitloop | null | Wtf. lisp/clojure? Why did he chose that? anybody know? | null | 0 | 1318146094 | True | 0 | c2q0q8q | t3_l5s9p | null | t1_c2q0q8q | t3_l5s9p | null | 1427706374 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | anacrolix | null | My question is: Why the fuck is this useful? I just did a Haskell tutorial on this and I'm left wondering; Who cares?
Great, we can define a Monoid class. Okay now time to get back to doing useful things again. | null | 0 | 1318146448 | False | 0 | c2q0r4g | t3_l5n8e | null | t1_c2q0r4g | t3_l5n8e | null | 1427706387 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | strager | null | Why do you sound surprised? Emacs+Lisp works wonderfully well. Lisp-like languages are good at defining DSL's. There's no needed compile step or main entry point, which is great for prototyping. | null | 0 | 1318146606 | False | 0 | c2q0rii | t3_l5s9p | null | t1_c2q0rii | t1_c2q0q8q | null | 1427706392 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mikesamuel | null | Fair enough. | null | 0 | 1318146707 | False | 0 | c2q0rqv | t3_l1mqb | null | t1_c2q0rqv | t1_c2pay3p | null | 1427706395 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Danthekilla | null | It pays my bills. Also most studies have found that app developers make more money of a windows phone 7 app than iPhone or Android. | null | 0 | 1318147111 | False | 0 | c2q0snp | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2q0snp | t1_c2q0f37 | null | 1427706406 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | didroe | null | The difference is that for the GPL, the normal situation requires no administration. If (hopefully a minority) people break the license you can take them to court. Where as the default situation with this revenue sharing license requires someone to keep track of who is using the software, who is charging for it, and wh... | null | 0 | 1318148735 | False | 0 | c2q0w49 | t3_l4eva | null | t1_c2q0w49 | t1_c2pp1y1 | null | 1427706452 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fbea | null | Please doo it. Orrr, what about a wiki page. That would be fucking fantastimcal | null | 0 | 1318148944 | False | 0 | c2q0wkk | t3_l462s | null | t1_c2q0wkk | t1_c2po6z8 | null | 1427706457 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Asmageddon | null | The hair screenshot is really creepy.... | null | 0 | 1318149329 | False | 0 | c2q0xd8 | t3_l5udg | null | t1_c2q0xd8 | t3_l5udg | null | 1427706468 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zsakuL | null | Have been writing cross-platform programs for years... war's been over for years. | null | 0 | 1318149440 | False | 0 | c2q0xkf | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2q0xkf | t3_l579f | null | 1427706470 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Shizka | null | Thanks loads! :D Didn't know about /r/gamedev | null | 0 | 1318149442 | False | 0 | c2q0xkh | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2q0xkh | t1_c2pwez4 | null | 1427706470 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bbibber | null | Yep, my bad. Not sure where that extra 'not' came from. | null | 0 | 1318150250 | False | 0 | c2q0z2t | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2q0z2t | t1_c2pu9ii | null | 1427706490 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | koft | null | The OpenGL based rendering engine that i've spent the past 8 months working on runs on Windows, OS X, iOS and Linux. C++ and OpenGL has been a great combo. | null | 0 | 1318150317 | False | 0 | c2q0z7e | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2q0z7e | t1_c2q0dwb | null | 1427706491 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | millstone | null | I'm sure Windows already had COW. It looks like this is more than that: it's proactively identifying unrelated pages that have the same contents, and then de-duplicating them into a single COW page. AFAIK Linux doesn't have anything like that.
My take is that it seems like a sketchy optimization that could end up bein... | null | 0 | 1318150616 | True | 0 | c2q0zqr | t3_l48nw | null | t1_c2q0zqr | t1_c2q0pym | null | 1427706498 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | specialk16 | null | The one with Scala Johanson was better.
edit: found it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLO1djacsfg | null | 0 | 1318150654 | True | 0 | c2q0zt0 | t3_l55ki | null | t1_c2q0zt0 | t1_c2pv8jg | null | 1427706499 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | with_gusto | null | ...for Windows only. I just don't see that point of creating a GUI application in Java unless it is cross-platform. There are better alternatives for just windows. | null | 0 | 1318151165 | False | 0 | c2q10qs | t3_kzuab | null | t1_c2q10qs | t3_kzuab | null | 1427706512 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Jigsus | null | Why is the text glowing? | null | 0 | 1318151249 | False | 0 | c2q10wa | t3_l5s9p | null | t1_c2q10wa | t3_l5s9p | null | 1427706514 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mhd420 | null | This article doesn't even really attempt to explain why having a shitload of utilities in a pipeline would be beneficial other than some nebulous 'it's decentralized and therefore somehow more flexible'.
When something goes wrong having to deal with a single system would be more complicated than writing a small utili... | null | 0 | 1318151256 | False | 0 | c2q10wq | t3_l5v0e | null | t1_c2q10wq | t3_l5v0e | null | 1427706514 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | illuminatedtiger | null | I thought it was pretty good. | null | 0 | 1318151320 | False | 0 | c2q110s | t3_l55ki | null | t1_c2q110s | t1_c2pxgxv | null | 1427706515 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MrMic | null | Yeah, but all the viewport stuff is OpenGL. And I know Dreamworks is almost completely Linux, for both servers and workstations, too. | null | 0 | 1318151372 | False | 0 | c2q1149 | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2q1149 | t1_c2pyfnw | null | 1427706516 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | krypton86 | null | Interesting, but is it really an improvement over impromptu? I do like that it's overlaid on Supercollider, but you can actually do all of this with Supercollider already. I'm not sure I see the advantage. Also, this should probably be cross-posted in r/edmproduction or maybe r/wearethemusicmakers. | null | 0 | 1318151631 | False | 0 | c2q11l6 | t3_l5s9p | null | t1_c2q11l6 | t3_l5s9p | null | 1427706523 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | modularity, reusability, flexibility.
You build a small tool to do one job. You can do whatever you want with that tool internally (i.e. optimize, add more features, etc...) and you don't have worry about changing every other tool You can take the tool you just built and apply it any way you want wherever it fits.
o... | null | 0 | 1318151740 | False | 0 | c2q11sl | t3_l5v0e | null | t1_c2q11sl | t1_c2q10wq | null | 1427706525 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | henk53 | null | Yeah, true, but what I meant is that it's based on Java 1.3, which is rather old.
This means that when developing for BD-J, you have to warp your mind back in time and have to recompile any class library you want to use for Java 1.3 class files. This of course doesn't always work, so you basically take versions of lib... | null | 0 | 1318151888 | False | 0 | c2q121w | t3_l55ki | null | t1_c2q121w | t1_c2pxh47 | null | 1427706529 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | henk53 | null | I think that bashing shouldn't be taking too serious ;)
But, for the majority of Java developers, C++ and C# are typically the 'friendly' competitors, not the enemy against which they have a deep grudge (like I think Python is, and perhaps PHP?).
Bashing those would be politically more difficult. I guess this is in ... | null | 0 | 1318152168 | False | 0 | c2q12jm | t3_l55ki | null | t1_c2q12jm | t1_c2pxgto | null | 1427706535 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jricher42 | null | Which is also why text is better than any less transparent format for shipping data between pieces. The file format's not supposed to be good, it's supposed to simple, stupid, and general. UTF-8 is a refinement of ASCII. ASCII is old... really old. It's also stupid. In any basic programming class, you learn to whomp to... | null | 0 | 1318152248 | False | 0 | c2q12oc | t3_l5v0e | null | t1_c2q12oc | t1_c2q11sl | null | 1427706537 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | henk53 | null | Well, it's only a couple of million developers being very enthusiastic about Java. Something with silent majority and such :P | null | 0 | 1318152268 | False | 0 | c2q12pq | t3_l55ki | null | t1_c2q12pq | t1_c2pvrqv | null | 1427706538 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gasche | null | You are right, it is a question of commutativity of accumulator-changing function. In the case of multiplication it degenerates to associativity.
The general way to turn a function into a tail-recursive one is to reify the evaluation context applied after each recursive call into some data passed to the function. In y... | null | 0 | 1318152570 | False | 0 | c2q138w | t3_l4p6z | null | t1_c2q138w | t1_c2px8oi | null | 1427706544 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | afiefh | null | This will be interesting when Linux drivers support OpenGL 3/4. Right now you can't even rely on OpenGL 2 features. The KWin team found out about this the hard way. | null | 0 | 1318152608 | False | 0 | c2q13ba | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2q13ba | t3_l579f | null | 1427706546 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ravinglunatic | null | Nobody understands REST. Nobody. Not even Fielding. | null | 0 | 1318152761 | False | 0 | c2q13kw | t3_l4l3n | null | t1_c2q13kw | t3_l4l3n | null | 1427706548 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | malkarouri | null | The Haskell committee's motto was probably "avoid success at all costs". So they failed in that... | null | 0 | 1318152796 | False | 0 | c2q13mw | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2q13mw | t1_c2pltxh | null | 1427706549 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Taladar | null | I don't know enough about graphics engines to know but judging from work with e.g. Qt which tries to abstract away the windowing systems on different platforms, there are usually at least some smaller parts where you have to know how the underlying system works anyway. | null | 0 | 1318153207 | False | 0 | c2q14a9 | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2q14a9 | t1_c2q0f1n | null | 1427706558 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318153258 | False | 0 | c2q14cs | t3_l3dch | null | t1_c2q14cs | t1_c2prtoz | null | 1427706560 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318153386 | False | 0 | c2q14ka | t3_l5s9p | null | t1_c2q14ka | t3_l5s9p | null | 1427706562 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kamatsu | null | Monads *are* monoids in a category of endofunctors. | null | 0 | 1318153486 | False | 0 | c2q14q9 | t3_l5n8e | null | t1_c2q14q9 | t1_c2q0oy7 | null | 1427706565 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kamatsu | null | The monoid class is useful for defining, say, the Writer monad (need to specify how written values are composed), but in general defining monoids is not a useful thing to do, particularly in python. | null | 0 | 1318153680 | False | 0 | c2q151d | t3_l5n8e | null | t1_c2q151d | t1_c2q0r4g | null | 1427706569 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gasche | null | The lisp languages have traditionally paid attention to the "live coding" aspect, which goes far further than having a REPL loops. They've long been strong contenders in the artist-coding fields for valid technical reasons.
If I wanted to pick a general-purpose language for live-coding, I'd certainly look at what's av... | null | 0 | 1318153752 | False | 0 | c2q1568 | t3_l5s9p | null | t1_c2q1568 | t1_c2q0q8q | null | 1427706571 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Eirenarch | null | Still that does not make the statement false. It only means that you agreed to a bad contract or that the justice system is broken. Also unlike open source Oracle has incentive to help you because they want to sell you future products. Of course you can argue that there are vendors but then again the statement suggests... | null | 0 | 1318153831 | False | 0 | c2q15b1 | t3_kz7vp | null | t1_c2q15b1 | t1_c2ojbeh | null | 1427706571 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gasche | null | I wonder how that relates to [blocky.io](http://blocky.io/), a visual programming system written in Common Lisp. | null | 0 | 1318153897 | False | 0 | c2q15ev | t3_l5s9p | null | t1_c2q15ev | t3_l5s9p | null | 1427706574 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | This has nothing to do with programming and is thus against the rules of this subreddit. | null | 0 | 1318154172 | False | 0 | c2q15vf | t3_l31ma | null | t1_c2q15vf | t3_l31ma | null | 1427706579 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Eirenarch | null | No because unlike Java in C# everything really is an object. So false is an object. Objects can be compared to null. You do get a warning though that this particular statement will always be false because value types are never null. | null | 0 | 1318154194 | False | 0 | c2q15wm | t3_kz7vp | null | t1_c2q15wm | t1_c2opy26 | null | 1427706579 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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