Who cares? Even Firefox is developed by a tight group of developers who can pour anything in the absolutely massive codebase. I don't think there is any practical difference between free and non-free. That something is proprietary does not automatically mean that the makers want to screw you. I don't know why that attitude is so widespread in Slashdot. Both parties, free and non-free, strive to create a product that works for the users.

Programmers are stupid too, so if they can get away with a dumbed-down programming language like BASIC, that's their choice.

It's interesting that you point that out. I have also noticed that I can put my finger on some games and know that they have been made with Unity. For example, The Long Dark or Shelter. Great games but there's the certain "Unity feel" in them. I'm not completely sure what makes it. :)

I am not completely familiar with the matter, but I remember hearing that using signed types in some situations can be a better choice, even when the value would normally be used to represent only a non-negative value. It could make overflows more obvious and calculating deltas might be easier? If someone actually knows about this stuff, feel free to chime in.

As a sidenote, there exists a somewhat famous bug in Windows 95 and 98 (later patched) that caused these operating systems to stop functioning after 49.7 days of uptime.

One tip for those who are using regular VS though. Not many know that there is actually an integrated hex editor.

In the "Open File" dialog, select a file and then choose "Open With..." from the pull-down menu in the bottom. A new dialog pops up from which you can select "Binary Editor".

Right, but you still have to do the research if the game has "registry crap". It's more relaxing to just have the installer take care of all that.

Not necessarily. For example, I could be eating vanilla ice cream day after day, but if I one day experimented with chocolate ice cream, I might say "yowzers, I didn't realize how awesome this is!"

Same thing with jobs. We might find new aspects of working if we introduce more of the other gender into the workplace. Who knows, right?

Actually we are talking about two different things here. We can look at the variance of male/female ratios across different jobs. Or, we can look at the male/female ratio inside some specific job.