The Hacks of Life

I realize that calling garbage collection "negligent" memory management isn't really fair. But I've heard enough people a...

nVidia has a very cool tool called NVPerfHUD - it's an application that provides on-screen diagnostics and debugging for graphics-inten...

I managed to slice myself pretty thoroughly while trying to make bagel chips tonight. Besides my surprise both at how deep the cut was and ...

This is another excuse to make sure the blogger move to beta hasn't killed all m blogs. In the past I ranted about not being able to m...

In C++ you can write things like this: void get_some_strings(vector & out_strings) { out_strings.clear(); for (some loop) out_strings.pu...

Whoever reads the man pages anyway? Turns out pthread_cond_timedwait takes an absolute time! In otherwords, if you want it to sleep for 1 ...

Here's a video of a very very low visibility approach in X-Plane. Note how the "fog" (that is, the mixing of the runway and g...