April 20, 2023 In 2005, id Software released the source code for their 1999 game Quake III Arena under the GPL-2 license. In the file code/game/q_math.c, there is a function for calculating the reciprocal square root of a number which … Read more
It’s been years since I last used the KDE desktop environment. Unfortunately, I don’t have an exact screenshot of my desktop when I last used KDE, but from memory it probably looked a lot like this: Credit: Wikipedia. Looking back … Read more
This article is an excerpt from my book about Data-Oriented Programming. More excerpts are available on my blog. Now that my book is completed, I have a better understanding of the core principles of Data-Oriented Programming. This article is a … Read more
For years, Tesla has tested autonomous vehicle technology on public roads without reporting crashes and system failures to the California Department of Motor Vehicles, as other robot car developers are required to do under DMV regulations. But confronted with dozens … Read more
Why we need to revisit the origin of blue hyperlink While musing over my recently published article, Why are hyperlinks blue, I was left feeling a bit blue myself. Yes, it could have been the fact that I was evacuated … Read more
Enlarge / The mushroom cloud from the Soviet detonation of “Tsar Bomba” on October 30, 1961, was so large that the photographers had a hard time capturing its full dimensions. reader comments 230 with 121 posters participating Share this story … Read more
In March, 2007, the attendees of South by Southwest Interactive, a technology conference held in Austin, Texas, had reason to be energized. The Silicon Valley startups celebrated by this gathering were on a roll. In 2004, Google’s twenty-three-billion-dollar I.P.O. had … Read more
Cover image by Charles Forerunner on Unsplash. In Part I, I gave an overview of the major language features introduced between Java 11 and Java 17 – showing us what Java looks like in 2021. I also argued that even … Read more
Revisiting Prechelt’s paper and follow-ups comparing Java, Lisp, C/C++ and scripting languages A discussion on programming languages’ impact on productivity and program efficiency. Written on 24 Jul 2021, 02:54 PM (Last updated on 31 Jul 2021, 04:34 PM) In 1999, … Read more
If the story of Walker and Maes cannot be separated from the longing and naïveté of the 1960s, as Kapur writes, it is even more tangled up in the politics of Auroville itself, which was thrown into an identity crisis … Read more