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Month: August 2008

“Refactor,” what a dumbass term!

August 31, 2008 christer 9 Comments

When did “rewrite” become “rewrite from scratch?!” In my 30 years of writing code, rewrite never meant rewriting from scratch…

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Posted in: From hell

Advanced bit manipulation-fu

August 24, 2008 christer 22 Comments

There are lots of things I think a good programmer should understand, and understand well. One, of course, is that…

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Posted in: Code

SIGGRAPH and books

August 10, 2008 christer 3 Comments

It’s SIGGRAPH 2008 time! That’s exciting to me, but not for the reason you think. I really couldn’t care much…

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Posted in: Miscellaneous

Graphical shader systems are bad

August 2, 2008 christer 22 Comments

It is very easy for programmers to be seduced by pretty tech. Case in point: graph-based shader systems. Unless you’ve…

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Posted in: Code, From hell, Graphics

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