Ben Zotto

San Francisco, CA

Formerly "quixoto" here.

Lots of iOS and C, and occasionally other obscura like Javascript, Java, and Win32.

An answer that I was proud of because I transcribed paper-book passages by hand: Why [object doSomething] and not [*object doSomething]?

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9 votes

Is OpenGL threadsafe for multiple threads with distinct contexts?

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