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C# - when I want to actually get something done (not necessarily always priority)
C++ - when I want that feeling of doing something really clever (esp. with templates)
C - when I want to feel...

Yes, but only for the 2% of websites that don't work (or don't work well) with FF. The dreaded "This site requires IE...." message always angers me, means I will probably have to reboot into Windows...

Naked Lunch has already been mentioned, but there is also Meet the Feebles which will completely destroy the purity and innocence of childhood memories of The Muppets.

As a side note, the...

Perhaps this has something to do with the "Law of Large Numbers"? Or would that be a misinterpretation of statistics? (I was never good with stats...)

OT, I actually felt the same way after...

Yeah, although there is a use of the term that has always slightly annoyed me for some reason. I think, particularly, the perception that some people have when I tell them I read science fiction -...

When I think of "hard sf" I immediately thing of the 3 B's: Gregory Benford, Greg Bear, and David Brin. All have written very enjoyable works.

If you read Asimov (and if you are into SF, you...

Well, you could always use an OpenGL wrapper (OpenTK appears to be somewhat mature and active, there is even an OpenTK GTK# widget that would be useful for tool development) - it's just a little more...

Practically took the words out of my mouth.

Personally, I only use Windows when I have to, and Ubuntu for the more "mundane" things.

I've done some searching for a Mono-friendly entry-level game/graphics API lately as well, and didn't have much luck. It seems that, if you want to program games for Linux, C++ or Python is the...

Program long enough, and you will eventually use things such as recursion, immutable objects, lambda functions - or else you will be doing things the hard way. So yes, learning a pure functional...

Be forced to maintain/refactor/understand your own codebase, preferably a couple years after the fact.

Trust me, the maintainability, readability, and refactor-ability of your code will increase....

Interestingly, I just read this following snippet from an unrelated article

The original article (to put it in context) is found here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20008444-281.html

It...

Maybe, just maybe, computers might be using qubits by then (though I doubt it would be so soon). If that's the case, quantum computer software design looks like it may be rather challenging:...

This piqued my interest, so I found this: http://timelessname.com/elfbin/
142 bytes, apparently.



Oh yeah, there were several of those disks (some with a magazine attached) if I recall...

Because humans possess intelligence, which allows them to reason sanely about the nature of reality. An intelligence that argues instead that there are 3 somethings instead of 7 somethings is going...

I sued Pringles, because I popped the top and then stopped.
Then I sued AT&T, because I wasn't able to actually touch anyone with it.
Now I'm suing Wheaties, because I am still not a champion after...

An alien intelligence may say that 1/0 = 0 ,or 2 + 2 = 5, but I would hesitate to claim their super-intelligence. In fact, they aren't going to get very far with technology that way. Presumably,...

I've heard this saying used in the programming world, usually to deter needless and premature optimization when developing software. Ideally, a developer will have a pretty good idea of what kind of...

Yes, I've noticed this actually. I believe I have found a solution, however. You see, the real creators of Linux (the Illuminati, not Linus, btw), inserted some special code into the kernal to pump...

To me, this looks like a mash of philosophy/religion being framed as a scientific theory. Personally I don't have anything against philosophy or spirituality, unless it poses as real science - then...

In commercial games, you may also find parts coded in Lua, Python, C#, Java, Ruby, etc. Especially in the tool chain, AI, and Logic portions of the game code.

The key word here, though, is...

Best visualized as 6 rectangular arrays. Get out a piece of graph paper and "unfold" a cube -- the links from and two each edge of each face should be clear enough to sort out. Note that "up" will...

Honestly, even after visiting the site numerous times today (and playing the game on several of those occasions), I never realized there was sound to the thing. I've long ago learned to browse the...

I agree. In fact, it seems to be so obvious that there will be a PR backfire here, that I have to wonder if this guy is secretly pro piracy, and donating more $$$ than I will ever see in my life to...

Depends on what you mean by "easy" (and "knife to the back"). I've had jobs that were extraordinarily easy - minimal physical labor, and only about 2 hours of training before the mental part became...