Yo bro it's to prove that you're ready to CRUSH CODE and brogram like a real brogrammer bro.

That is of course tongue in cheek... yet accurate. http://www.metafilter.com/113526/Want-to-bro-down-and-crush-code

I take ad blocking off for good sites that request it.

And then if they ever serve up a large animated, pop-up, sliding, flash, java, or autoplay sound ad I turn it back off with a note never to turn it back on.

Of course we've known about the state's emotional and mental instability forever. Still the only state with its own Fark tag!

https://twitter.com/_FloridaMan

http://www.fark.com/topic/florida/

What he said, after much consulting with his PR people is 'used games can play on PS4'.

That's a far different statement.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if they left it up to the publisher to set the used game rights per game. Tied to only one console, tied to only one account, tied to one account but up to 3 consoles, disk must be in the console, no restrictions, etc.

Relying on the people who want to track you to honor your "Please don't" request is just guaranteeing disappointment.

Now there are plenty of ways you can clamp down on the tracking and cross-site leakage, from NoScript to RefControl, but the single easiest cross-browser cross-platform way to do it is Ghostery: https://www.ghostery.com/

Most importantly, unlike the other methods (NoScript in particular) it only very rarely breaks a page. So it's just set up and forget.

I'm sure it's not as effective as some other tactics, but the 'works on everything' and 'just works' is really key to just using it all the time everywhere.

Should be 'A nationwide corn shortage brought on by ethanol mandates, as designed by the people who imposed them'.

If you just disable Metro and get your start menu back with Start8, RetroUI, Classic Shell, or other options, you've got Win7 with a few nice upgrades. It's not worth a lot of effort or extra money to stick with Win7 (though if you can for the same price, go for it) Nor would I suggest most people pay the upgrade price for an existing Win7.

I do this at work - nobody even notices except one of our IT guys when he saw my lock screen, which looks a bit different under 8. More to the point I can swap back between it and Win7 machines and not even care or notice except that Win8 has a nicer copy/move box.

'when the public really demands 3-D content'

When it doesn't require glasses and doesn't give you headaches.

Just look at the comments here. Apple just doesn't want that controversy s@$%storm, and the 'they didn't approve it' controversy is a minor fartzephyr in comparison. That rule is specifically there to prevent games like like this, especially ones that won't make them much money. Educating people is approximately nowhere on the list of App Store goals.

Any decent game machine is going to need an add-in card, not an Intel GPU. I'm not sure if they'd be okay with something that mandates competitors' products. And if not, would they try to kill it? Given the hold they have on the PC market and how much money they can and do throw around to try to move the market (ultrabooks!) it could be tough if they did.

But perhaps they'd grudgingly go with it just to sell more high power desktop CPUs and motherboards.

We've got a simple coding standard here with things like member variable prefixing, file naming, spacing (4 spaces, no tabs), etc. When you go into existing code you know what you're looking at and when you start writing a new file you don't need to decide about this_naming vs thisNaming vs ThisNaming vs GetThisItem vs thisItem vs etc. etc. etc. And you can grab the standard file header and drop it in. All in all, it saves a lot of time.

On the other hand, we're not pedants and don't dictate brace placement or otherwise care about whitespace like 'if( this )' vs 'if (that)' because that's not a major impact on readability or editability. If we really cared we'd just have the code automatically reformatted on check-in. You just need to work with professionals - easier said than done, I know.

It's a given that most will target 30fps since more shinies looks better in screenshots and youtube videos than 60fps does. And most consumers can't tell the difference until put a 60 and 30 fps version side by side and let them play.

The leaked/rumored PS4/XNext specs show them as equivalent or slightly weaker than current mid-high gaming PCs, and those can't do 60 fps locked on all the recent shiny games at 1920x1080 with all effects on (except those like CoD MP that specifically target it), so it's unlikely the consoles would. Cheap components is the driver, especially for PS4.

But there's no reason a fighting game or fps can't aim for 60fps on the new gen if it wants to. Use your shaders and effects wisely and no problem.

Games on the Radeon 6850 would generally perform fine but seem 'jittery'. Usually didn't notice it, but sometimes it was quite obvious that you were losing frames here and there even when in non-complex situations. Of course you wouldn't notice a single one, but when it's happening every 2-3 seconds it starts being noticable when you're playing for hours. Some games were much worse than others, though I couldn't say it was directly related to how shiny the game looked. It was never big enough a deal that I did anything about it (had it for two years).

When the fan on it exploded last month and burned out the 6850 I got a GeForce 660 (no brand loyalty either way) and the issue just went away. Obviously it's a much faster card than a two year old card, but it's also noticeably smoother even with graphics cranked up to about the same FPS. It's the exact same system, that's all that changed.

Just one anecdote, but the article would explain what I was noticing (though not why).

And to followup the followup, by 'last October' he meant 2010, which is actually two years ago. Perhaps this is partly why he didn't get hired, eh?

So perhaps it's now a thing of the distant past. Who can remember two years ago? That's pre-Facebook IPO!

So just to follow this up, because it's obviously important to you (and I certainly understand pride in your company), I did some quick research, and the last of the three guys I know interviewed there last October, which is over a year ago. Perhaps things have changed since?