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The title says it all! Tools / utilities / games that I might not have heard about, but you can't live without?
Started by Andy Mikula on
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by 32 people.
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There actually....
F.lux , a daemon that darkens the screen at night .
Plus its all GUI based for those that are afraid of the command-line .
Probably btnx , a tool for customizing and tweaking every mouse button you have (great for mouses with tons of hot keys) .
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I heard that Python has automated "garbage collection" , but C++ does not. What does that mean?
Started by alex on
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by 8 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
// somewhere else in your program you....
Example in C++:
char *ch = new char[100]; ch[0]='a'; ch[1]='b'; //... .
That means that python user doesn't need to clean his dynamic created objects, like you're obligated to do it in C/C++ .
Try reading up on it.
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I have been looking for a ways to maximize speed in my web application. Came across an interesting application called CSP. Have you guys ever heard of them? They claim that you can program web application in c++. Is it worth it?
http://www.micronovae....
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
It worked, and was probably pretty fast, but....
I wrote a website using C recently, using libcgic.
You execute an application that can be written in virtually any language that hooks into an HTTP pipeline .
Just like CGI's....
That's nothing new really.
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I want to learn how to program video games but don't want to do it in C++. I searched around and came across BlitzBasic, darkbasic, and purebasic. Have any of you guys heard of them. If so, which one would you recommend?
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
What languages do you already know? If you're a .net programmer... .
I think that most of these are scripting languages that work with specific game engines .
The only thing I can tell you is that BlitzBasic originated on the Amiga, where it was well regarded .
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Being a passionate developer, I'm sometimes amazed when people in the industry have not heard about key technologies, news stories, new sites, development podcasts, etc.
Does not reading RSS feeds, listening to podcasts, or following key Twitter users...
Started by Shaun on
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by 16 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Different != Bad
Stackoverlow.
And I have heard of jQuery, but I don't know that you haven't heard of some of the things that they use daily.
Disclosure: I have no idea whatsoever what Csla or DntTV are .
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I've heard that i++ isn't a thread-safe statement since in assembly it reduces down to storing the original value as a temp somewhere, incrementing it, and then replacing it, which could be interrupted by a context switch.
However, I'm wondering about...
Started by samoz on
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by 14 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
It may well be that "i++" is thread.
You've heard wrong.
The answer is to test the heck out of it .
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Following the Egregious pop culture perversion of programming , what is the most outlandishly insane technobabble you have ever heard, either in fiction or real life?
Extra points to those unfortunates whose real life stories beat Hollywood.
Note: feel...
Started by pookleblinky on
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by 45 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Where everyone called the desktop, the "modem." We have all heard the "harddrive" phrase.
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I've heard many in my career.
"Don't waste time coding for that. This application will NEVER require additional functionality."
"Unit testing is a waste of time."
"Just do what you have to do to make it work."
Does anyone wish to share?
Thanks, ~ck in...
Started by Kettenbach on
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by 10 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Actually, the "don't waste time coding for that" would have been okay, if they had finished up with "we'll do that when we need that functionality."
I don't care which... .
Lame, but unfortunately true.
Lately I've been going around you to get things done" .
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I hear this stuff alot since I am still going to school while employed as a developer. Strange, odd and sometimes downright incorrect sayings like "INSERT and DELETE sql statements are almost never used in the real world " from professors all the time...
Started by Allen on
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by 18 people.
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I heard that people two years out.
Beacuse the industry changes so fast."
I heard that in the real world, junior programmers start at $60,000 and go up from there.
To relearn everything every six months...
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Hello,
I'm developing a simple appplication to play WAV files using PlaySound, with this code:
#region DllImport private enum Flags { SND_SYNC = 0x0000, SND_ASYNC = 0x0001, SND_NODEFAULT = 0x0002, SND_MEMORY = 0x0004, SND_LOOP = 0x0008, SND_NOSTOP = 0...
Started by Nathan Campos on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Additionally....
As curtisk points out, you should try using SND_FILENAME to let the API know you're passing in a filename .
You should use SND_FILENAME flag instead of SND_SYNC , since you are specifying a file, try that out and see if you have better results.. .
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