by Alex Rest, describes some problems, bugs and technique solutions that correspond to using pointers. This article would be useful for beginners and programmers that are using other programming languages and are starting to study C and C++ now.
None of us can know the answers for sure until our own time comes, but the few individuals who have their brush with death interrupted by a last-minute reprieve can offer some intriguing insights.
"Five-day weeks of eight-hour days maximize long-term output in every industry that has been studied over the past century. What makes us think that our [IT] industry is somehow exempt from this rule?"
by Scott Aaronson. I have an ingenious idea for a company... My company will be the one that packages ... in 25-cent cardboard boxes, then resells the boxes for up to $300 apiece.
By Pieter Hintjens - That simple question stirs up controversy and divides the IT industry into two camps like no other. Every group has their own ideology about software patents.
Numbers for Fantasy Worlds, a distillation of broad possibilities drawn from a variety of historical reference points, from periods ranging from the 11th to 15th centuries as a good model for a trad-fantasy gameworld.
Interview with Sebastian DeGuy. We discuss how small the textures can actual get, whether procedural textures can compare with textures in games like Crysis and much more
Paul Graham May 2001 "You don't need to know this stuff to program in Lisp, but it should be helpful to anyone who wants to understand the essence of Lisp"
Her sinking with the loss of almost 1,200 lives caused such outrage that it propelled the U.S. into the First World War. But now divers have revealed a dark secret about the cargo carried by the Lusitania on its final journey in May 1915. Munitions they found in the hold suggest that the Germans had been right all along in claiming the ship was carrying war materials and was a legitimate military target.
The age-old practice of turning the soil before planting a new crop is a leading cause of farmland degradation. Many farmers are thus looking to make plowing a thing of the past
When the schedule is shot and a game needs to ship, programmers may employ some dirty coding tricks to get the game out the door. In an article originally published in Gamasutra sister publication Game Developer magazine earlier this year, here are nine real-life examples of just that.
"While MFC remains the library of choice for full application development, ATL provides an attractive alternative when a simple set of window wrapper classes is all that is needed." March 1999
The new technology, known as AMQ, is an open-source message queuing system that provides the same functionality as IBM's WebSphere MQ (formerly known as MQSeries), has implementations on C and C++, and will support C# and Java.
Almost every application with GUI needs icons. And they better be sexy. And stylish. And consistent. And small. Here are few tips for programatically creating icons using Java 2D features
The numbers that control your life. You're identified by dozens of numbers. Your phone number, your driver's license number, your social security number, your zip code, your license plate, your credit card numbers. I find these numbers fascinating. Who distributes them? What can they be used for? How can you use them? How are they issued?
at infoDev "Perspectives for Development, was prepared by The Dravis Group for the World Bank's infoDev Symposium, and includes advice for how IT-constrained foreign firms might explore Open Source options."
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