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On VATMOSS

Note: This post is made from a non-EU provider perspective. However many points raised concern both EU and non-EU sellers. Disclaimer: This post tries to cover the subject as generically and objetively as possible. Take in mind that every Country in the world has its own Laws and your situation […]


The Sorted Vector pattern Part II

This is a continuation of Part I In Part I, we learned about the Sorted Vector as a replacement for map where iteration, lookups and memory overhead per element matter, while we cared little about insertions and removals. However the examples were rather simple: Keys are strings or integers. What […]


Website blocked in several countries and broken links.

I’ve known for a while that users from at least the following countries have been blocked access to my website. That was driving me nuts. Probably you’ve been having difficulties until yesterday if you’re from: Australia Israel Malaysia Other Middle East countries. Probably other countries as well. You would just […]


“We don’t care really how long it takes”

This post is addressed to all the software dev. managers with this mentality, where a (probably manager) was honest in that they don’t care about Data Oriented Design (or any performance optimization strategy that requires some dev time, for that matter). A transcipt ensues: – We worry not so much […]


Is everything ok, Nvidia?

I don’t normally post personal business opinions, but I’m going to make an exception here. Yesterday NVIDIA announced they’ve initiated a patent lawsuit against major mobile vendors, claiming these vendors are profiting from their decade-long R&D. Christophe Riccio tweeted this move is a confirmation the Tegra K1 is commercial failure, […]


What I wish I’d knew about Android from start

Android docs suck. There are a few rare exceptions. But overall, it sucks. This makes dealing with Android a lot harder than it should be. Many examples cover useless cases while real-world cases are nowhere to be mentioned. Once in a while you get lucky on Stack Overflow, but most […]


Enhanced “Registers” window in Qt Creator

Update 2015-07-19: Gitorious is dead. The repo has been forked in GitHub. Links were updated.   As I said in previous posts, I consider Qt Creator a very good candidate for replacing Visual Studio. I believe it has potential to become the IDE closest to perfection. However, the debugger irritates […]