Please remember that this was a performance trick in the context of mobile GPUs, as described in the link posted earlier in this thread:

By the time you release your game, OpenGL 3.3+ may very well be properly supported - or, even outdated

You asked what the overhead was, then I told you what it was and you said that it was terrible, and now you say it's not about memory overhead...

Anyway, triple nested loops are not somehow much slower than a single loop. Benchmark your code if you notice it's slow, don't make too many assumptions, especially if you're new to it all.

That's not the bug, Z values leak into his Y value.

230K of memory overhead is perfectly fine. Imagine loading a 1024*1024 image, it will take 4MB of memory. We have gigabytes of RAM... is 230K really terrible??

The bonus you have when using a char[][][] is that it does bounds checking for you. If you'd just use Danny02's code, and you'd feed in x=-1, y=-2, z=5, there wouldn't be an error thrown, it would just result into unexpected behavior. So apart from the 1D<->3D convertion, you have to do your own bounds checking for x,y,z values.

Bounds checking and index calculations are all trivial, we say, but for a newbie, it's highly error prone, given that Danny02 got it wrong too (returned Y axis value is wrongly calculated), and I'd say one is better off with char[][][], and swallow that 230K overhead.

Every object has memory overhead:
   You have 128*128 char[] objects
   You have 128 char[][] objects
   You have 1 char[][][] object

That makes 16,513 objects - arrays even, each roughly adding 12 or 16 bytes, which means it uses ~230K more memory than you expected.

Earlier I configured SMF to make editing posts impossible after 180 days, as some members try to hide the mess they create by altering pretty much all their posts. As that happened three times recently, I added that restriction.
Then I realized I could create similar but better functionality by writing a cronjob that locked topics, which looked at the latest post in a thread. Needless to say I forgot to disable that SMF feature...

What makes you think WordPress returns statuscode 403?

Never ever expose your database to the outside world.

Query WordPress itself, over HTTP. If you want to use a specialized solution, write a JSON API, but I can't stress enough that a database must be only reachable by a serverside application, where business logic defines the used queries; never execute queries received from a client.

Problem solved

Hm... the topic is not locked in the first place, so I'm not sure what's going wrong here.

That's already supposed to happen.

Your topic was idle for 180 days, so it was locked. I'll add WIP to the boards that won't be locked automatically.

I deliberately said that I wasn't feeling adverse affects. How I know that for a fact? Well, because I'm not feeling it. It's indeed all about perception.

I'm out! I've got more money to make for Cas.

These reports don't quite agree:

• http://world.tax-rates.org/hungary/income-tax (2013!)
• http://www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-Hungary/Local%20Assets/Documents/Newsletters/Tax%20Alert%20_English/FY%202013/TaxNew+_Tax%20law%20changes%20adopted%20for%202013.pdf
• http://tmagazine.ey.com/news/ibfd/hungary-tax-package-2013-presented/
• http://www.xpatloop.com/news/details_of_2013_tax_changes_in_hungary

I'm sorry, but I'm taking those reports more serious than the statements of your friend...

It's kinda paints a grim picture if you believe that people sending me PMs about how they enjoyed the activation quiz are merely doing that due to social pressure to fit in. That was my point after all: unprovoked positive feedback. That's a totally different thing than a mildly positive response on an inquiry.



Heh, you can't distance yourself from such remarks that easily. It's a common tactic, often seen in interviews / in journalism: you have this opinion of somebody but for the sake of having an informed discussion, you know it's not prudent to call it in their face, but make up an fictional group, and taking fictional quotes from them, to smoothen the conversation accompanied with a subtle bit of backstabbing.



From your average televised interview, this is the underlying question:
The question that is asked by the interviewer:
It's a dirty little trick, and very hard to counter, without elaborately explaining what is happening, as if you'd simply recognize this trick and refuse to answer, it comes across as you can't take criticism.



Just as easily, I can make up this fictional group of people that agree with me, disagree with you, and take quotations like:
and then 'remind you', that when you quote my fictional quote, that these are not my words. Surely, logically this is defendable, but socially not so much.




You're practising theory, I'm dealing with reality. Observational evidence shows that my solution to the problem is effective, and it seems we have the luxury to reject people we deem not having the right mindset to join the community, without feeling adverse effects.




I hope this thread is useful in a way, like making people look for that new [ignore] feature I added recently.

As explained earlier, and unfortunately blatantly ignored... it's simply not how it works... and if you'd rather go to jail than to pay taxes, there's not much reasoning left to do here... enjoy your ruined life, I guess, while everybody else seems to cope just fine, even when having to pay these taxes.



Your math is scary. How would you ever make 10K if you make it free before you reach that amount?

Cero, you're derailing this topic for no apparent reason.
It seems you misinterpreted Oskuro's first post.

If I ignore complaints, I'd come across as an

That's where your reasoning is flawed. It should be: "Wow, almost everybody participates!" If you'd ask people whether they truly liked it, you'd get different numbers as most people are polite not to hang up immediately once they realize it's a survey. If you'd record people making positive statements during the survey, regarding said survey without being asked on the matter, the numbers would be even lower, and merely biased, as opposed to 'strongly systematically confounded'.

Welcome to the real world.

Steam does not avoid tax for you. In fact, they take a large chuck of the money you make themselves, effectively adding yet another tax.
 
Keep in mind that for income tax, you pay tax over the profit, not the revenue. So saying you'll be paying 60% over the retail price is just wrong.

Also, the tax percentage goes up with your profit: it doesn't start at 60%.
   You pay a% tax over profit under X.
   You pay b% tax over profit between X and Y.
   You pay c% tax over profit between Y and Z.
   You pay d% tax over profit above Z.

In The Netherlands, the max percentage (over the high end of your profit) you pay is about 50%. Then you have all kinds of deductions, first and foremost costs, but also business related deductions, which either are a percentage or an absolute amount of money.

To give you an indication, although we have this ~50% tax in my country, I barely paid any tax last year, without resorting to shady tactics.

Taking your own impression and/or reasoning and projecting it on the general population to make a point... From what I hear, both in this thread and in my PMs, is that the people that come through, are usually amused by the quiz. Surely this is a biased selection, but it's not all the doom and gloom you portray it to be.

On a side note: do you complain at websites using ReCaptcha? The only reason you accept those monstrosities is that you're conditioned to use them. They offer a horrible user experience to the target audience and let a steadily increasing amount of fancy pants bots through. If you think that the quiz is worse than a re-captcha, we'll have to agree to disagree and leave it at that.



Given your apparent extensive background in social behavior (and odd analogies), this seems out of place. Let's add a poor analogy to the bunch and say that one day I don't want red haired tall girls in my office, so on the door, I'll put up an elaborate text describing how red haired tall girls are denied access because they are morally impure, smelly and generally misinformed. Guess who will be trying to get in no matter what and ruin the place, stealing my sticky notes.... pissed off red haired tall girls! Why? Because I was more or less taunting them.

I'm not going to taunt human spammers, by describing how much trouble they caused and which measures we put in place to keep them out, how they worked around it and how we countered their tactics. It will give them an incentive to prove me wrong, either by compiling the code snippet, or being a tad more nasty, like attacking the server which a script kiddie could do by accidently pressing a button. These are not nice people, and generally best ignored, not taunted and not even mentioned explicitly, they'll just see a simple page, think 'holy cow!' and close the browser tab. Just the way I like it.


Given that my PHP skills do not allow me to show the 'so sorry' paragraph only to non-spammers, I'm forced to show everybody the same page, which given the reasons posted above, is rather terse.

The quiz already explains this is an anti-spammer measure. What would you suggest? Forcing you to read a paragraph explaining how sorry we are for making you fill out a quiz, oh, and having to read that paragraph? Adding more text to it doesn't solve anything and will most likely annoy people. In the end they have to fill out that form anyway, so we can just as well be as brief as possible in the accompanying text.


Yeah, I'm simple like that. Isn't it sad. But what ya gonna do.


As much as I love to see the gloves come off, you haven't convinced me. Whether I throw a paragraph at people telling me how sorry I am to make them jump to hoops, there will always be people thinking we are and write a new reply in this thread.


If I approached that stranger and that person provides a service I'm interested in, and has a vested interest in keeping that service high quality by making me do something easy, I would consider it.


So far I haven't seen a solution that both keeps the spammers away and involves less hoop jumping.

Spending 5 minutes 'fighting' to decide whether to jump through hoops, sounds awfully long. Longer in fact, than to actually jump through these hoops If JGO is unworthy of jumping through hoops for, that's perfectly fine.

We have between 5 and 10 successful activations per day, and we can barely cope with the influx of cube-enthusiast newbies already. Every once in a while we find somebody complaining. I guess you can't please everybody - the activation quiz is meant to be humorous to the target audience and a royal pain in the ass for everybody else.

If a programmer can't be arsed to run a snippet of code, it's telling... and we're probably better off not having those lazy bums on the forum.


I spent long enough on the activation quiz. I'm not going to poke holes in it to make the one-time activation easier for average Joe wielding his tablet, never booting up his desktop anymore. I like to think JGO is among very few open forums on the internet that don't need moderators cleaning up after spammers. The quiz does its job remarkably well, at the expense of this topic needing occasional TLC when people feel mistreated, patronized and/or otherwise offended by an entrance exam.

There. Done.

You agree with me 99% of necros are inappropriate, right?

PM me when you want to revive it.

Good point. I excluded Showcase, Featured and Wiki (as if! ) from the boards to freeze.

Some members seem to be rather fond of necroing threads. The message that is shown after hitting 'post', informing the poster that the thread is severly outdated, doesn't deter these people.

In all these years, I can't recall a reply that actually was worth such a revival. Typically people use the search function of the site and just plonk whatever they are working on at the end of whatever topic they stumbled upon, forcing everybody to plow through outdated messages.

Therefore, I proudly present the feature everybody has been waiting for...

• topics are frozen after 180 days of inactivity

Hurray!

Who put this thread in the chitchat board?

No.

Now back on topic please.