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New comment by ursus_bonum in "Writing a game engine in pure C: The Graphic Initialization"

ursus_bonum — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 23:04:11 +0000

This looks like a lot of complexity up front with no foreseeable payoff.

Why are we implementing a whole dynamically allocated stack for states before doing anything domain specific?

How many states could you possibly be expecting to have in a full game? 3? 12? 100? The examples of states were like the menu, action screen, and pause screen. So it sounds like very few. Drop the realloc'ing and free'ing and just statically allocate N states and be done with it. Save this complexity for something that really needs it.

Plus are you going to free the stack any time other than when you quit the app? I doubt it. The OS will free everything for you when you quit so there's no reason to waste time on that either.

The code so far looks like mostly a waste of time.

New comment by ursus_bonum in "Microsoft Bing not only shows child pornography, it suggests it"

ursus_bonum — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 19:23:29 +0000

This is clearly explained at the beginning of the article.

New comment by ursus_bonum in "Google was in the running to acquire GitHub, according to head of its cloud arm"

ursus_bonum — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 21:15:38 +0000

Google would have stepped on Octocat's neck and blown its pretty little head off.

Microsoft will either low-key torture it to death or leave it alone. Who's to say?

New comment by ursus_bonum in "The Eve programming language project is winding down"

ursus_bonum — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 00:40:21 +0000

FlappyEve inspired my first "Tiny C Game", Flappy, now part of http://TinyC.games

New comment by ursus_bonum in "Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations"

ursus_bonum — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 21:25:46 +0000

I use git in this particular way, and if you do anything different you are WRONG AND BAD or you have IMPURE MOTIVES!

New comment by ursus_bonum in "If your iOS 11 device unexpectedly restarts repeatedly on or after December 2"

ursus_bonum — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 21:39:09 +0000

I think I'll just hold my breath until the next Apple embarrassment.

New comment by ursus_bonum in "Spotify is now deciding what music is politically acceptable for listening"

ursus_bonum — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:46:56 +0000

Hmm yeah. Maybe censorship isn't the best weapon to use against Nazis.

New comment by ursus_bonum in "History of Emacs and vi Keys (2010)"

ursus_bonum — Thu, 18 May 2017 22:02:52 +0000

This just in: "P" ruled totally illogical for "paste" "V" remains totally logical though of course

New comment by ursus_bonum in "Emacs is sexy"

ursus_bonum — Wed, 10 May 2017 22:15:13 +0000

This satire is a little too subtle for me, assuming this isn't real.

New comment by ursus_bonum in "Twitter refuses US order to disclose owner of anti-Trump account"

ursus_bonum — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 01:39:02 +0000

This precisely. What is going on in here? This story has nothing to do with Twitter banning certain accounts, so why is half the discussion about that?

New comment by ursus_bonum in "Reinventing the Git Interface (2014)"

ursus_bonum — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 22:18:00 +0000

That's odd. gc shouldn't be collecting anything less than 2 weeks old by default.

New comment by ursus_bonum in "Reinventing the Git Interface (2014)"

ursus_bonum — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 22:07:46 +0000

That's fine but the article doesn't mention any popups. It just makes it sound like all of this will happen in the background without bothering the user.

New comment by ursus_bonum in "Reinventing the Git Interface (2014)"

ursus_bonum — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 21:49:26 +0000

This is such a classic example of not thinking things through.

The graphical manipulation stuff sounds cool until you think about what happens when it causes merge conflicts. I mean the graph stuff is still cool but it does very little for the hard problems.

The automatic committing for WIP and "magic" pushing/fetching sounds cool until someone switches branches and accidentally commits 3.1TB of junk files they left lying around and it automatically syncs to EVERYONE else on the project.

People complain now that Git is "too complex" just wait until it's automagically doing shit like that.

New comment by ursus_bonum in "Reinventing the Git Interface (2014)"

ursus_bonum — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 21:19:38 +0000

This. By the time you get good enough at Git to make a reasonable GUI, you don't need/want it anymore.

New comment by ursus_bonum in "Text Editor Performance Comparison"

ursus_bonum — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 19:41:12 +0000

Me too. vim -u NONE is a life saver.

/me waits for someone to say we shouldn't have 3GB xml files in the first place, like I don't know that already.

New comment by ursus_bonum in "Snakisms"

ursus_bonum — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 21:50:50 +0000

Indeed.

New comment by ursus_bonum in "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Review"

ursus_bonum — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 20:27:03 +0000

That game would have only been improved had down-thrust been available from the beginning.

New comment by ursus_bonum in "Bruce Schneier: 'The Internet Era of Fun and Games Is Over'"

ursus_bonum — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 00:23:29 +0000

Or you're using Chrome.

New comment by ursus_bonum in "Classic IT short jokes collection"

ursus_bonum — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 22:38:21 +0000

Two strings walk into a bar.

The first string says, "I'll have a rum and coke."

The second string says, "Same here.#uu6€^My¥ZZ~~0◀000x[,_5"

And the first says, "Sorry, my friend here's not null terminated."

New comment by ursus_bonum in "How to Get Fired Using Switch Statements and Statement Expressions"

ursus_bonum — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 19:48:39 +0000

Maybe compilers shouldn't have stupid extensions that make it possible to crash/hang the compiler?