ikrima ikrima

This is a plain-text version of Bret Victor’s reading list. It was requested by hf on Hacker News.

Highly recommended things!

This is my five-star list. These are my favorite things in all the world.

A few of these works have had an extraordinary effect on my life or way of thinking. They get a sixth star. ★

Memory Optimization (Christer Ericson, GDC 2003)
http://realtimecollisiondetection.net/pubs/GDC03_Ericson_Memory_Optimization.ppt

Cache coherency primer (Fabian Giesen)
https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2014/07/07/cache-coherency/

Code Clinic 2015: How to Write Code the Compiler Can Actually Optimize (Mike Acton)
http://gdcvault.com/play/1021866/Code-Clinic-2015-How-to

Orthodox C++

What is Orthodox C++?

Orthodox C++ (sometimes referred as C+) is minimal subset of C++ that improves C, but avoids all unnecessary things from so called Modern C++. It's exactly opposite of what Modern C++ suppose to be.

Why not Modern C++?

Use cases

Textures/Matrices for direct use (data!)

Moments In Graphics (void-and-cluster)
- 2D
- 3D and 4D
Bart Wronski Implementation of Solid Angle algorithm

Clone project
Checkout all branches that contain the files that should be moved
Delete the remote

Run the filter-branch command:

git filter-branch --tree-filter 'mkdir -p /path/to/tmp; mv * /path/to/tmp; mkdir subdir; mv /path/to/tmp/* subdir/' --tag-name-filter cat --prune-empty -- --all

All files are first copied to a temporary dir and move from there to the new destination

Existing tags are updated

Semantic Commit Messages

See how a minor change to your commit message style can make you a better programmer.

Format: <type>(<scope>): <subject>

<scope> is optional

	#define DEBUG_CONSOLE
	#define DEBUG_LEVEL_LOG
	#define DEBUG_LEVEL_WARN
	#define DEBUG_LEVEL_ERROR

	#if (UNITY_EDITOR \|\| DEVELOPMENT_BUILD)
	#define DEBUG
	#endif

	#if (UNITY_IOS \|\| UNITY_ANDROID)

	# Verifies the connectivity and validity of the objects in the database
	git fsck —unreachable

	# Manage reflog information
	git reflog expire —expire=0 —all

	# Pack unpacked objects in a repository
	git repack -a -d -l

	# Prune all unreachable objects from the object database

	#include <iostream>
	#include <vector>
	#include <string>
	using std::string;

	/*
	These macros define a struct with an implicitly defined Show function that visits each member.
	The trick is that a typedef is split between each STRUCT_MEMBER instance and the preceding macro,
	which allows it to define an empty struct type that identifies the following struct member, while also
	knowing the struct type that the preceding macro is using to identify the current member.