omnigoat

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by omnigoat 10y ago
"In reality" means that the working set of memory and time complexity on solving Chess (let alone Go) is vastly too large for computers now and in the future. I don't get why you tacked on computers beating grandmasters/
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by omnigoat 12y ago
They're calling the Int 3 debugger instruction, I believe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INT_%28x86_instruction%29 I'd prefer to see this either with inline assembly, or using __debugbreak() (and variants for
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by omnigoat 14y ago
I don't get your reasoning (mainly because all you've provided none). I wrote games, we used Boost heavily, on the PC, Xbox360, DS, Wii and PSP. I mean really heavily. Boost.Thread, Boost.SmartPtr, Boost.Bind, Boost.Function, Boost.MultiSet
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by omnigoat 15y ago
That is a different and far easier question. Try and work out the stated question, "heavier or lighter".
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Basic Server Management (for hackers)(jona.cc)
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Writing Better Javascript Libraries(jona.cc)
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by omnigoat 16y ago
Well you've clearly never had to worry about memory paging and the cost of indirection, like I have (actually from memory I think you must have at some point?). The difference is real and significant. Try writing a particle system using a l
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by omnigoat 16y ago
It also means running out of breath from doing too much. Curiously, in my karate dojo, we are taught to learn to fight whilst being winded - as in, having the wind knocked out of you .
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by omnigoat 16y ago
It depends on which dojo you train at. In our (Shotokan) dojo, every couple of lessons or so, someone will ask "but that's illegal in a tournament, right?", to which our sensei laughs and says in a real fight there's no such rules. We are t
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by omnigoat 16y ago
Also, the Greens are gaining like crazy right now. Probably for two reasons: One, before about 4 years ago, there was 13 years of Liberal government (once again, they are capital-L Liberals, not lowercase-l liberals). And then the "left" pa
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by omnigoat 16y ago
Yes, that's fair for the PC (I was aware of this for the PC, which is why I said exceptions don't really matter on the PC). But (from memory) I don't believe the Xbox allows for this, even though it uses a very similar variant of the same c
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by omnigoat 16y ago
You're making two mistakes: One about how exceptions work, and another by not considering our constraints. Exceptions don't just add an overhead when they're thrown, they add overhead for every function call. How else would the exception-ha
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by omnigoat 16y ago
But then you'd have some of the population calling themselves a collection of humyn. Back on topic: I still find both 'nerd' and 'geek' to be offensive. Although I don't find "geek chic" to be offensive... probably because it has never been
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by omnigoat 16y ago
Sorry, I can't see how this is an improvement over Boost::Phoenix: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_44_0/libs/spirit/phoenix/doc...
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by omnigoat 16y ago
My first, my very first C++ project, started in Year 9 - coming from VB6 - was a 3D graphics engine. Yeah, that failed. It failed 5 times (fun fact - the fourth rewrite occurred moments after exclaiming "oh those are references!"). But
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by omnigoat 16y ago
Trojan horse? Strawman, baby! Using your gmail as a username isn't bad. It makes it easy to know where to send you emails for account details and such. However , I think GMail needs a revamp if it's going to be the focal point of many inte
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by omnigoat 16y ago
Hi! I live in Australia, where the majority of people on ADSL2+ have speeds less than or equal to 4mb/s. Due to the geography (technically, topography) of our country, high-speed internet is particularly tricky to roll-out. Not for perhaps
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by omnigoat 16y ago
Man, these guys talk about $20 mil as if it were chump change. Probably because they have all that blog-money now. If someone ever wants to buy my company for $20 mil, and I walk away with even half that, I will be a very, very happy ma
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by omnigoat 16y ago
Spot the Australian: Four Weetbix, and Orange Juice.
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by omnigoat 16y ago
And for those wondering when you'd use this algorithm (as even academics don't seem to know!) - it is the go-to algorithm for implementing pathfinding in video games, and robotics.
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by omnigoat 16y ago
Oh, coincidence. I did this about twelve minutes ago. Yes, I've just tendered my resignation. I work in a large, large company. The place is okay, the people are good, the code is fine I guess. I just wanted a change of direction. I started
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by omnigoat 16y ago
Conversely, it also encapsulates why Apple will never do well with a particular segment of its competition ;)
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by omnigoat 16y ago
This may have no additional value to any aforementioned discussion or analysis, but: Hooray for grellas! He always makes me consider going back to uni and studying law.
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by omnigoat 17y ago
Honestly, the most intelligent discussion of OpenGL, I find, invariably comes from GameDev.net: More specifically, watch this thread: http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=5...
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by omnigoat 17y ago
I do believe this is why my university teaches Java for one year, then C for the second, before you even get to glance at (C++|Python|Perl|C#|other). I'm a compiler-writer, and we don't need different names - they have well defined mean
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by omnigoat 17y ago
I'm thinking about the (No Internet Explorer) -> Internet Explorer 3.0 jump, which has been cited before as an example of what Microsoft is capable of when it suddenly throws the 'code red' flag (ie, Netscape and the internet are sudden
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by omnigoat 17y ago
This post makes one incorrect statement, I think: "And that cuts to heart of why developers and anyone with an interest in the using the web of the future today has long since lost faith in Internet Explorer: The competition continues to de
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by omnigoat 17y ago
I'd like to make two points in response... 1) I did say 'savvy'. Sort of because I don't get to use that word enough, but also because it is possible to abuse operator overloading. String concatenation with the addition operator isn't goi
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by omnigoat 17y ago
Well, in the interests of actually furthering discussion: I feel as if string and map simply could have been part of the standard library. My solution to the this for prism was to have a section of the standard library (which doesn't exist
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by omnigoat 17y ago
My word, a whole bunch of what I'm reading is exactly what I have/had intended to implement in my toy language, prism. Bit-specified integer (and real) types, increment/decrement operators as statements (prefix only!), hell, even using "v

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