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Re:Texgen.js – Lightweight Procedural Texture Generator on Sunday January 25, 2015 @09:09PM (#8945224)

I fail to see the logic behind optimizing around conditionals when you are running in an interpreted language.

Monopoly Money

Posted by bgtnhz on Saturday January 24, 2015 @06:00PM
from the blog.solarcity.com dept.

http://blog.solarcity.com/monopoly-money/#

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Re:James Webb Space Telescope on Friday January 23, 2015 @09:09AM (#8934852)

Telescope mirrors:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/page9/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/page11/

JWST vs Hubble: https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4076/4813007838_13c736d9ca_z....

Mirror curvature( large jpg ): https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4114/4813106662_0d3eeddc27_o....

Re:The CERT C Secure Coding Standard on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @10:22AM (#8923437)

Casting const away is never undefined. However modifying objects defined with const is. If the object was never defined with the const qualifier, then there is no problem with the casting.