raysan5

CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

A couple of weeks ago I played (and finished) A Plague Tale, a game by Asobo Studio. I was really captivated by the game, not only by the beautiful graphics but also by the story and the locations in the game. I decided to investigate a bit about the game tech and I was surprised to see it was developed with a custom engine by a relatively small studio. I know there are some companies using custom engines but it's very difficult to find a detailed market study with that kind of information curated and updated. So this article.

Nowadays lots of companies choose engines like Unreal or Unity for their games (or that's what lot of people think) because d

shakna-israel

Let's Destroy C

I have a pet project I work on, every now and then. CNoEvil.

The concept is simple enough.

What if, for a moment, we forgot all the rules we know. That we ignore every good idea, and accept all the terrible ones. That nothing is off limits. Can we turn C into a new language? Can we do what Lisp and Forth let the over-eager programmer do, but in C?

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rjhansen

SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack

This work is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Terminological Note

"OpenPGP" refers to the OpenPGP protocol, in much the same way that HTML refers to the protocol that specifies how to write a web page. "GnuPG", "SequoiaPGP", "OpenPGP.js", and others are implementations of the OpenPGP protocol in the same way that Mozilla Firefox, Google Chromium, and Microsoft Edge refer to software packages that process HTML data.

Who am I?

dance2die

class App extends React.Component {
  state = {
    errorBoundaryKey: 0
  };

  handleRerenderButtonClick = () => this.forceUpdate();

  handleResetButtonClick = () =>
    this.setState(prevState => ({
      errorBoundaryKey: prevState.errorBoundaryKey + 1

iamcaleberic

Enabling Pulse Audio Equaliser Arch Linux

• Install the pulseaudio package.

   $ pacman -S pulseaudio
  

• Install control module and equlizer

   $ pacman -S pulseaudio-equalizer pavucontrol
  

• Install gst-plugins-good if your intended program has a legacy GStreamer implementation.

princebot

::
:: This script installs wormhole (https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole) and
:: its prerequisites. Run this as an administrator.
::

:: Install chocolatey.
@"%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -NoProfile -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET "PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin"

:: Install Python 3.
choco install -y python

joepie91

Not all random values are created equal - for security-related code, you need a specific kind of random value.

A summary of this article, if you don't want to read the entire thing:

• Don't use Math.random(). There are extremely few cases where Math.random() is the right answer. Don't use it, unless you've read this entire article, and determined that it's necessary for your case.
• Don't use crypto.getRandomBytes directly. While it's a CSPRNG, it's easy to bias the result when 'transforming' it, such that the output becomes more predictable.
• If you want to generate random tokens or API keys: Use uuid, specifically the uuid.v4() method. Avoid node-uuid - it's not the same package, and doesn't produce reliably secure random values.
• If you want to generate random numbers in a range: Use random-number-csprng.

You should seriously consider reading the entire article, though - it's

SIRHAMY

<div>{"<"} Less than, {">"} greater than </div>

claymcleod

import sys,os
import curses

def draw_menu(stdscr):
    k = 0
    cursor_x = 0
    cursor_y = 0

    # Clear and refresh the screen for a blank canvas
    stdscr.clear()

jhngrant

# PostgreSQL can be on a remote server but you'll need root privileges in Linux and superuser in PostgreSQL.

# First install build tools

sudo su
aptitude install build-essential
aptitude install postgresql-server-dev-9.4

# Clone and build the PL/pgSQL server-side debugger