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  2. HUD (video games) - Wikipedia

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    Compass/quest arrow - sometimes found in RPGs, first-person shooters and driving games, they help guide the player toward the objective. An example is in the first-person shooter BioShock , which displays an arrow pointing the direction of the next objective on the top of the player's HUD.

  3. Dangling pointer - Wikipedia

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    This technique does not help when there are multiple copies of the pointer. Some debuggers will automatically overwrite and destroy data that has been freed, usually with a specific pattern, such as 0xDEADBEEF (Microsoft's Visual C/C++ debugger, for example, uses 0xCC, 0xCD or 0xDD depending on what has been freed [7]). This usually prevents ...

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  5. List of Google Easter eggs - Wikipedia

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    The 2011 sequel apparently is not affected. "meteor shower" will dim the screen and have a group of three meteors pass through it diagonally before returning to normal. "minecraft" and similar terms adds a grass block button that when pressed shows Steve’s hand in the corner.

  6. Faraday cage - Wikipedia

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    Faraday cages cannot block stable or slowly varying magnetic fields, such as the Earth's magnetic field (a compass will still work inside one). To a large degree, however, they shield the interior from external electromagnetic radiation if the conductor is thick enough and any holes are significantly smaller than the wavelength of the radiation.

  7. Survivalcraft - Wikipedia

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    Survivalcraft is a 2011 open sandbox video game developed by Marcin Igor Kalicinski under the brand Candy Rufus Games. Following early test versions, it was released on 16 November 2011 for the Windows Phone, and is also available for Android, iOS, and Microsoft Windows.

  8. Dwarf Fortress - Wikipedia

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    The "DF to Minecraft" utility allows players to view their Dwarf Fortress maps by converting them into Minecraft structures. [70] Adams has acknowledged the role of the community in supporting development and endorsed third-party tools, visualizers and interface code; indeed, he has said that he admires third-party developers who create tools ...

  9. Jacob's staff - Wikipedia

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    In navigation the instrument is also called a cross-staff and was used to determine angles, for instance the angle between the horizon and Polaris or the sun to determine a vessel's latitude, or the angle between the top and bottom of an object to determine the distance to said object if its height is known, or the height of the object if its distance is known, or the horizontal angle between ...