0xjac

The repository for the assignment is public and Github does not allow the creation of private forks for public repositories.

The correct way of creating a private frok by duplicating the repo is documented here.

For this assignment the commands are:

1. Create a bare clone of the repository. (This is temporary and will be removed so just do it wherever.)

git clone --bare git@github.com:usi-systems/easytrace.git

AjayMT

Why do game developers prefer Windows? (Direct3D vs OpenGL)

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/88055

Many of the answers here are really, really good. But the OpenGL and Direct3D (D3D) issue should probably be addressed. And that requires... a history lesson.

And before we begin, I know far more about OpenGL than I do about Direct3D. I've never written a line of D3D code in my life, and I've written tutorials on OpenGL. So what I'm about to say isn't a question of bias. It is simply a matter of history.

Birth of Conflict

One day, sometime in the early 90's, Microsoft looked around. They saw the SNES and Sega Genesis being awesome, running lots of action games and such. And they saw DOS. Developers coded DOS games like console games: direct to the metal. Unlike consoles however, where a developer who made an SNES game knew what hardware the user would have, DOS developers had to write for multiple possible configurations. And this is rather harder than it sounds.

markusdosch

General Introduction into OpenGL

• https://open.gl/introduction looks very good

Double Buffering (from http://www.glfw.org/docs/latest/quick.html)

GLFW windows by default use double buffering. That means that each window has two rendering buffers; a front buffer and a back buffer. The front buffer is the one being displayed and the back buffer the one you render to.

When the entire frame has been rendered, the buffers need to be swapped with one another, so the back buffer becomes the front buffer and vice versa.

glfwSwapBuffers(window);

bearfrieze

Comprehensions in Python the Jedi way

by Bjørn Friese

Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit.

-- The Zen of Python

I frequently deal with collections of things in the programs I write. Collections of droids, jedis, planets, lightsabers, starfighters, etc. When programming in Python, these collections of things are usually represented as lists, sets and dictionaries. Oftentimes, what I want to do with collections is to transform them in various ways. Comprehensions is a powerful syntax for doing just that. I use them extensively, and it's one of the things that keep me coming back to Python. Let me show you a few examples of the incredible usefulness of comprehensions.

mikkkee

Questions

• [When should static_cast, dynamic_cast, const_cast and reinterpret_cast be used?][1]
• [What are the basic rules and idioms for operator overloading in C++?][2]
• [Why would one replace default new and delete operators?][3]
• [What is the copy-and-swap idiom?][4]
• [What is the difference between #include and #include “filename”?][5]
• [What can I use to profile C++ code in Linux?][6]
• [C++ multithreading?][7]
• [When and how should dynamic memory allocation and pointers be used?][8]

shagunsodhani

A Few Useful Things to Know about Machine Learning

The paper presents some key lessons and "folk wisdom" that machine learning researchers and practitioners have learnt from experience and which are hard to find in textbooks.

1. Learning = Representation + Evaluation + Optimization

All machine learning algorithms have three components:

• Representation for a learner is the set if classifiers/functions that can be possibly learnt. This set is called hypothesis space. If a function is not in hypothesis space, it can not be learnt.
• Evaluation function tells how good the machine learning model is.
• Optimisation is the method to search for the most optimal learning model.

bkaradzic

Orthodox C++

This article has been updated and is available here.

maxwellito

#!/bin/sh

# This script must be executed in the repo where
# the *.ts files are.
# It will concatenate the segments into one temp
# file which ffmpeg will reencode the audio track.
# By default the ouptup filename is output.mp4
# but can be changed by providing the name as parameter.
#
# ffmpeg is required

Kronopath

# WeChat aud file converter to wav files
# Dependencies:
#   SILK audio codec decoder (available at https://github.com/gaozehua/SILKCodec)
#   ffmpeg
#
# By Gabriel B. Nunes (gabriel@kronopath.net)
# Adapted from another script by Nicodemo Gawronski (nico@deftlinux.net)
# 

import os, argparse, subprocess

ankurk91

#!/bin/sh

# Install node and npm via nvm - https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm

# Run this script like - bash script-name.sh

# Define versions
INSTALL_NODE_VER=22
INSTALL_NVM_VER=0.40.1