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thelinked··on Handmade Hero: C game from scratch
Answered in the Q&A video that followed the one you linked to. The project will be avoiding OS specific code as much as possible so I can't see a there being a dependency on visual studio. http://youtu.be/I5fNrmQYeuI?t=11m21s
thelinked··on C++14 lambda tutorial
An interesting example of C++ not being able to introduce new keywords is the co-opting of auto in C++11 from a storage class to type deduction.
thelinked··on Notch programming a Doom-like in Dart
Indeed it was. Here's the unofficial spec in case anyone is interested. http://www.gamers.org/dhs/helpdocs/dmsp1666.html
thelinked··on Revenge of the Types
Check out F#'s units of measure. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd233243.aspx
thelinked··on John Carmack: 20 years after Doom
A version with improved audio and corrected aspect ratio can be found here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaN4wUii0T0
thelinked··on Inter IKEA Systems BV called me
"you" was the formal form of "thou". In Ireland we use "ye" as the plural of you.
thelinked··on Notch makes a game from scratch in 48 hours (using Dart)
It's still going. http://www.twitch.tv/notch
thelinked··on Lua Fun: A high-performance functional programming library designed for LuaJIT
"--" are comments in Lua, also, sorry for being pedantic but its Lua not LUA. Its Portuguese for moon.
thelinked··on Visual Studio 2013 released to web
While VS 2013 has much better C++11 support it's not close to full compliance. The Visual C++ team have decided to work on C++11/C++14 together which is slowing C++11 a bit. Here's a blog post laying out their plans. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2013/06/28/cpp-con...

There's also a quite detailed talk by Herb Sutter on channel 9 as well. http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2013/2-306

thelinked··on Are We Losing the Secrets of the Masters?
Found it! It was an April fools joke for 2009. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Terminal_Event_Manag...
thelinked··on AMD Introduces "Mantle" API Initiative
Here are some blogs. http://hacksoflife.blogspot.com/ http://fgiesen.wordpress.com/ http://www.g-truc.net/
thelinked··on The flawed psychology of government mass surveillance
Reminds me of a plot point in deus ex. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b-bijO3uEw