Elysian Shadows

The main reason why I haven't experimented with it yet is that I just haven't gotten a chance to update my compilers and toolchains. I'd be curious to see if the dreamcast could be compiled with gcc's newest release. I have never actually built GCC by myself, but I have heard we can use up to GCC 4...

If I'm understanding this correctly, the solution is to always spend $0 on pest control because as the number of pests increases, so does the number of tourists. This doesn't make sense :roll: In a way, you are correct. However, before dismissing dandymcgee's problem (or wording), I would first ass...

Computer engineering is a cross-over between electronics engineering and computer science. Computer engineers are typically involved with designing chips and writing firmware and operating systems. CEs mainly focus on integrating hardware and software. Computer science is more abstract and rarely de...

I'm not sure how sfml handles music internally and if it even really matters if I delete the sound without stopping it. I'm not getting any errors so I assume its ok. This was my next guess. ;) I know there is a good reason for not using singletons and globally available objects but I am just missi...

If you're going to implement the Singleton Pattern at least do it correctly. Or even better, don't do it at all [see: http://forums.elysianshadows.com/search.php?st=0&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&keywords=singleton for reasons] Yeah, I've heard that it isn't a good idea. I know nothing about ...

At long last, SFML 2.0 has been released. Many people have been using the GitHub head for their projects, as the library itself has been stable for quite some time. Gomila has been kind enough to provide binaries for a whole bunch of platforms and compilers, with 32-bit and 64-bit builds of everythi...

Surely I can't be the only one who thinks this is pointless? As many of you have brought up, once you grasp core programming concepts (and to a lesser extent, certain programming paradigms), picking up a new language is just a matter of learning the syntax... I pull Python, Ruby, PHP, and various U...

They mostly repeated some of what is said in here http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57918 Torvalds doesn't really expand upon his criticisms or go into detail as to why he believes the things he believes about C++. I respect him as a programmer, but I've learned to take his ra...

I agree with everything you said except this sentence. In my opinion, chances are if the language is getting in your way you're using the wrong language . That doesn't necessarily mean C++ is the wrong language, it just means that C++ is the wrong language for you , be it inexperience or otherwise....

I think that these claims are typically made by people who aren't sufficiently experienced with C++ to make any such accusations. While C++ is not without its faults--no language is--I do not think that it should be avoided as a general rule. If there are other languages better suited to a purpose, ...

Filling out my general ed to transfer to university (likely MIT or Stanford) This is going to sound bad, but I mean absolutely no offense. Do you honestly think you have a shot at getting into either of these? It is clear to me that you are highly intelligent, but I have learned that this doesn't m...

Filling out my general ed to transfer to university (likely MIT or Stanford), going to grab a few associate's degrees for the hell of it on my way out. Working on my computer science/physics research project, which I'll be presenting to the board of trustees of my school next month. Hoping to coauth...

I got an email from Atlassian (the company behind Bitbucket) this morning about the release of the Windows port of their SourceTree frontend for Git/Hg. I've been waiting for this for a while, as I've used SourceTree extensively on the Mac since its initial release about a year and a half ago. I fou...

The first row looks sort of okay, with GIFs being flags and PNGs being circles. Could be better if 'flag' or 'circle' was in the name, but not inconsistent at least.
... then he/she somehow managed to confuse 'purple' and 'orange' ... how the fuck?

I like that it's using PC components. It'll make porting games a lot easier. Hopefully this will allow some of the fine-tuned optimizations that come along with fixed hardware to be back-ported to PC versions, and hopefully we'll see more PC games taking advantage of multi-core processors. Basically...