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by goldfire 9y ago
Rust's library documentation has this feature as well; each item has a [src] link that takes you straight to the code being documented; see for instance [0], and you'll find the link to the right side of the heading. This even wor
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by goldfire 9y ago
The thing that kept me from trying Ada (back a couple of years ago when I was writing firmware and so was kind of on its home turf) was a lack of good resources for learning it. I got a copy of the book "Programming in Ada" by Bar
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by goldfire 9y ago
Unless I misunderstand their test code, the article says they could reproduce the problem using an array of 67108864 Integer objects. That doesn't sound like an impossible amount of memory.
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by goldfire 9y ago
To clarify the above, new API's introduced since around Vista are more likely to be COM (and WinRT is of course entirely COM when used from C++), but the existing C API's have not been replaced, and some new C functions have been
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by goldfire 9y ago
In Visual Studio 2017 you can open an executable directly and begin debugging it without having either of those things.
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by goldfire 9y ago
The only items I have in that sharing menu are e-mail, which clearly there would be no need for this service if that were good enough, OneNote, which makes no sense, and advertisements for Store apps that I don't want to use. I think i
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by goldfire 9y ago
Console dev kits for major platforms never included game engines, and the primitives included with older console dev kits, if any, were often ignored because more custom versions were required to get the desired performance. What's hap
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by goldfire 9y ago
Let me see if I understand this argument (with the awareness that you are attempting to restate it and not directly advocate it yourself). When someone is being subjected to abuse in what is supposed to be a professional setting, the correc
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by goldfire 9y ago
Game engine vendors also care a great deal about iOS, since they have a large number of customers who do, so that's also driving support for Metal in those engines.
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by goldfire 9y ago
In any kind of user-facing support role, not trusting the user's account of what happened is rule #1.
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by goldfire 9y ago
There was an attempt at a somewhat standardized C++ subset called Embedded C++. Even within embedded circles I don't think it ever got much traction, presumably because it was _too_ limited.
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by goldfire 9y ago
If we're talking about mobile apps, it seems more likely that they would send the same software to everyone and just turn on these features being tested by sending some activation signal from a central coordinating service, or perhaps
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by goldfire 9y ago
It's much too early in that project to publicly say anything substantive about it, because everything is still subject to change. All they can do right now is generate hype, which those trailers have done an admirable job of.
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by goldfire 9y ago
MSDN has this, and I have never seen a comment there that actually provided value to a reader of the page. It makes even less sense on MDN, because MDN is a wiki; if you think something is missing, you can get it added.
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by goldfire 9y ago
No source code, but looking at the Windows binary it's using a statically linked copy of SDL 2. Plus that file's about 2 MB, so really not surprisingly small.
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by goldfire 9y ago
We're only talking about one exploit in one program. CFG doesn't have to be "common" to be relevant, it just has to have been used in that program, which it must be or it wouldn't have been mentioned.
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by goldfire 9y ago
This is exactly what Microsoft were accused of doing to Lotus 1-2-3 back in the day. See [0]. TL;DR: wasn't true. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10432608
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by goldfire 9y ago
There's a feature called Lightweight Solution Load [ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/extensibility/... ] which does seem to just lazily load projects. But even with that turned off, opening l
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by goldfire 10y ago
DX 9 class graphics are great for a lot of applications. Not every project has to be at the cutting edge of rendering technique to achieve its goals.
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by goldfire 10y ago
It's hard to feel respected when you're constantly hearing all about how "fucking stupid" your ideas are. I know in theory you're supposed to separate criticism of your ideas from criticism of you, but in reality th
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by goldfire 10y ago
They don't need to support it, because the GPU vendors have done so in their drivers, so it works fine on Windows without Microsoft's assistance.
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by goldfire 10y ago
FYI, this default has been flipped on Nightly, and that change should make it in to the version 53 release in April (barring any huge problems found in the 64-bit build).
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by goldfire 10y ago
The list in this article isn't exhaustive, it's just one set of suggestions. They are good and useful suggestions, but not the only possible criteria. You should make your own individual decisions based on the priorities and goals
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by goldfire 10y ago
> Unfortunately the Windows syscalls are not officially documented and even less stable than on Linux, changing even between service packs. You can get pretty close though; it's possible to skip the C runtime and most of the other u
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by goldfire 11y ago
So... not been closely following development on Go. What does this mean?
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by goldfire 11y ago
Are you suggesting those as counterexamples? Neither one is an example of an "all-encompassing environment." "Visual C++" no longer exists, it's just part of Visual Studio now. When it did exist, it was merely an ID
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by goldfire 11y ago
If I want to start Microsoft Word right now, here's what I have to do: I press the Windows key, type "word", press enter, and then wait for it to start. That entire process takes three seconds; I just timed it. Now that Word&
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by goldfire 11y ago
The rule is saying that a class which does explicit resource management should be doing only resource management and have no other behavior. In other words, only wrapper classes should manage the resource they wrap, and (ideally) no other
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by goldfire 11y ago
Something is wrong there. I just tried the same tasks on my system; from clicking the shortcut to the Browse view rendering was 5 seconds, the live search displays suggestions almost as fast as I can type more characters, and the full resul