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Re:Microsoft ends support for Windows XP and Office 2003
on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @06:10AM (#7552442)
It prints "You are NOT running Windows XP" on x64 XP.
Re:Sharp Develop – Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio
on Friday April 04, 2014 @08:56AM (#7531022)
It can be used with dot42 - C# to Android compiler.
Visual Studio Express can't.
Re:Game Programming Patterns – Bytecode
on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @04:48PM (#7468861)
Security. When you want to run untrusted modding code.
It's hard to sandbox python or lua and block I/O and all system calls. 1 mistake and player computers are compromised.
Even with JS in browser you can't just eval(), you need sandboxing like https://code.google.com/p/google-caja/ or https://github.com/jterrace/js.js/ (200 times slower than js).
Re:Flash is dead, long live OpenFL
on Saturday March 22, 2014 @10:07PM (#7451789)
How does it do networking?
All I see in docs is a simple GET/POST request. Realtime multiplayer game would be very slow using it.
Re:Announcing the C++ FAQ
on Friday March 21, 2014 @08:47PM (#7446226)