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Out of Memory? - 318 days ago

It’s a common practice not to check what malloc() or new returns, since in an ideal world you will never run out of memory and so allocating memory will never fail. With a reasonably sized page file that is mostly true. When using a page file, this.
Topics: Memory, Programming, Windows

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Introducing Calculon - 333 days ago

Here's a desktop calculator I wrote because I thought the standard Windows Calculator sucks (which it does).
Topics: Calculator, Software, Windows

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Is X Bullshit? - 334 days ago

.blah tr { margin-top: 10px; }.blah th { text-align:center; }.blah tr td+td { background-color: #f0f0f0; font-size:16px; text-align:center; font-weight:bold; }X…ScoreSounds too good to be true1+1Competes with an existing theory while offering...
Topics: Nonsense

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Collision Detection with Occlusion Queries Redux - 346 days ago

Here we describe a method for checking collisions between arbitrary objects drawn by the GPU. The objects are not limited to any shape, complexity or orientation. The objects that are checked for collisions can be the same objects that are drawn on the...
Topics: Algorithms, Collision detection, Game programming, Games, OpenGL, Programming, Source code, Video games

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Proposal: One-sentence News - 372 days ago

Stop luring people on your trite news blogs with misleading titles. Sure, a mysterious or provocative title is a good way to get people interested, but it in worst case makes your blog (and you) look uninformed. Especially, when the first sentence of the.
Topics: Blogging, News, Nonsense, Rants

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