<story><title>More Dirty Coding Tricks from Game Developers (2010)</title><url>http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/249475/More_dirty_coding_tricks_from_game_developers.php</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ketralnis</author><text>A couple of those are cited like this:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; - Anonymous (sourced from Reddit replies to the original 2009 Dirty Coding Tricks article)&lt;p&gt;So not anonymous at all then. reddit comments have usernames attached to them, URLs that can be linked to, and even an on-site messaging system that can can be used to ask the author for permission to use the content. Heck, every comment has an &amp;quot;embed&amp;quot; link below it to conveniently embed the properly cited comment right on your page.&lt;p&gt;Is this a thing that&amp;#x27;s okay to do? Take someone else&amp;#x27;s content from someone else&amp;#x27;s website, copy-paste it into your article, and claim it was &amp;quot;anonymous&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;Would this author be okay with it if I copy-pasted their articles to my blog? What about if I stole all of the comments posted to their articles to make my site look more active?</text></comment>
<story><title>More Dirty Coding Tricks from Game Developers (2010)</title><url>http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/249475/More_dirty_coding_tricks_from_game_developers.php</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Negitivefrags</author><text>I have a story kind of similar to the one called &amp;quot;...Or is it over here!?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;A friend of mine was having crashes with a program. When debugging it he found that a bunch of his local variables had weird values. He suspected that there might be a buffer overflow elsewhere that was trampling over the memory.&lt;p&gt;The fix? Just add &amp;quot;char buffer[ 1000 ];&amp;quot; to the function to absorb the damage. It fixed the crash and it shipped like that.</text></comment>