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I'm not sure that's true. Software, especially games, can be insanely complicated. One thing I can say though: people working on cars need to care a lot more about how things are built because if they fuck up, somebody could die.

I'm not sure I can take you seriously with that last sentence. Don't get me wrong, I love the Uncharted games, but its gameplay is far inferior to The Last of Us in my opinion. Uncharted, you very rarely ever have any real choice in how you do things. I've played through The Last of Us and...

Your numbers are ludicrously off if you're talking about units shipped/sold. You're saying that everybody on the planet has bought at least 10 PS3s and 10 Xbox 360s. If you mean revenue from system sales in USD, that's still ridiculous. Assuming $300 per system, you're saying there are about...

I'm really excited about this game. Possibly the most excited I've ever been for a game. I've been telling my friends that I really do believe this might be game of the generation. We shall see...

Backwards compatibility by running the game on one of the new consoles is highly unlikely in my opinion. The systems have completely different architectures than their predecessors. Pretty sure both companies have already confirmed that backwards compatibility of the sort where you stick the...

Are you guys even talking about the same kinds of jobs that these people are interested in? If we look at the vast majority of those individuals that have started this group, they're all major software companies. The amount of people who are actually qualified for those jobs and actually are...

It's not about "being the man". It's about showing you know your stuff and that you can get the job the employer wants you to do can be done by you. I've grilled lower classmen at my school before I graduated to help them with interviews, and there's always someone who thinks they are a...

You should know the fundamentals. Most people have touched upon it already. Knowing about certain problems or techniques are less likely to help you in my experience than having a solid understanding of the fundamentals (mathematics, algorithms, data structures, computer architecture, etc)...

Information warfare, tasty. The "easiest" thing you could probably do is exactly what westrock2000 said, except use binary search to quickly hone in on suspects. If you must do it one at a time, with the numbers you've got in the channel, it would be stupefyingly tedious.

It's just about the only thing we're good at these days... unfortunately.

Yes, it is as simple as that. The real question is: How useful is it in reality? That depends on how accurate your function is with respect to a real algorithm running on a real machine. Even if you could totally account for all of the time (in abstract units) in an algorithm doesn't...

I don't necessarily agree on getting familiar with Linux or Windows. It depends largely on what you mean by "A proper school". I don't know anything really about University of Washington, but based on what I've heard, it has a very traditional CS theory education, which I think is good...

I actually thought kind of hard about that one. My issue is that C++ is so syntactically insane, especially with C++11. Don't get me wrong, I'm really comfortable in C++, but there's some serious syntax madness going on in the language now. If I was anyone new to programming, C++ would...

I received a PM from Ryou-kun, and here was my response: Feel free to add to this, elaborate, or refute my claims. [Edit] Forgot to add mention of gamedev: http://www.gamedev.net/forum/123-the-technical-side/

You should know (in no particular order, but numbered for convenience): A programming language Data structures Computer architecture Basic math (calculus, discrete, linear algebra, probability) Algorithms For 1, if you want to be a professional game developer, C++ is almost...

Mozilla maintains a pretty extensive C++ codebase for their work on Thunderbird and Firefox. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Introduction I'd recommend getting on their IRC and talking with other developers if you're having trouble. I think #introduction at irc.mozilla.org is their new...

Ok, poor advice. It really depends on what you want to learn about C++. For example, I consider myself to be pretty fluent in C++, but definitely not a master. I wanted to elevate my understanding of language design issues and understand some of the "Why?"s of C++ and other programming...

My personal opinion: Just write some more C++ code. For me, it's fair to say that the Effective C++ books are quite good, but I treat them as morality guides. They help me along and I can avoid some subtle C++ language traps, but reading about them vs writing code and finding out for yourself...

A long reply ahead, but I would appreciate some thorough responses, especially to some of my questions at the end. This is a pretty strong argument against using fixed size ints by default in an effort to increase code clarity. After lots of thinking on my own last night and reading this...

I recently got into a debate with a co-worker of mine on an issue on fixed size ints in C++ (#include <cstdint>). My preference is to use fixed size ints by default. Any code I write that requires a plain unsigned integer type or a signed integer type, I write uintN_t or intN_t, where N is the...

If you're looking for a rigorous, mathematical treatment of recursion and some classical problems involving recursion: http://compgeom.cs.uiuc.edu/~jeffe/teaching/algorithms/notes/01-recursion.pdf from http://compgeom.cs.uiuc.edu/~jeffe/teaching/algorithms/

You'd be surprised... I'm graduating in December with a BS and while my base salaries have not been 6 figures, when you add in the signing bonuses alone, I'm easily in 6 figures. It depends largely on the companies of course. I've heard from friends who claim that at some financial firms...

Do you have the requisite mathematical background to be able to handle AI and algorithms? Game AI tends to be rather simplistic due to performance restrictions, but a lot of the heavy duty academic AI uses a lot of linear algebra, probability, algorithms and discrete math. I wouldn't recommend...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Op3QLzMgSY Please watch the first 4 minutes of this video. The most understandable and fundamental description of what "computer science" is in my opinion.

At first I thought that name was a joke... "Dangerfield" -> "Danger Zone".

All inputs have the same problem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OokaYONL9fA Short video illustrating my problem.

I shipped my Asus VW246H monitor from Illinois to California for an internship. When I got it in California, it was working fine, but I didn't end up using it all that much so I packed it back up. It sat around for 3 months. Then I ship it back to Illinois last week and just got it back...

I don't know what distinction you're trying to make with "get taught to code rather than program". Maybe you're thinking of getting taught to code vs solving problems or software engineering...

Uncharted: Drake's Fortune and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. Good God man...

It depends on how much you want to do for the user of your code. You could make your uber_ptr to be as idiotproof as possible and do lots of checks. But then you force all users to live with the overheads of your checks. Or, you could decide you want to provide minimal overhead and do less...

Writing a smart pointer is actually not that difficult (to get a barebones, minimal version). Doing the operator overloads and copy constructors shouldn't be hard, but it is critical to do it correctly. Also, you might want to take a look at your constructor with one type T parameter. I'm not...

It sounds like you're focusing on the wrong things to me. Sure, knowing a bunch of languages and technologies is great, but if you haven't taken a data structures course, you're not really going to know what you're doing. Languages and technologies often change. Core fundamentals and problem...

He's not really a computer engineer. He's a software engineer, but yes, wow. The first minute is by far the most telling; his claim that his work in video games is "far more complicated" than rocket design kind of puts things into perspective in terms of complexity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcWRc1wK3gM

You do realize what market this hardware is for, right?

Not really, but OK.

It seems more like one of the game media sites broke embargo... I'm pretty sure I saw a GameTrailers watermark on one of those and I read somewhere it was actually up on the site for a while before it got taken down?

This has come up before once or twice. Some games offer you the option to make a partial install, but doing a full copy of the game disc like the Xbox 360 allows is probably not offered for the fact that Blu-ray discs have a much larger capacity.

You have much to learn. Algorithms materials from my school: http://compgeom.cs.uiuc.edu/~jeffe/teaching/algorithms/ Some discrete math and probability stuff: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spring10/cos433/mathcs.pdf These are the bread and butter of computer science. It shall...