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by 10098 13y ago
from his site: > Their combination of a simple algorithm and stunning results are hard to beat. that's exactly what fascinates me about raytracing. It's pretty straightforward, you literally emulate the light bouncing around, b
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by 10098 13y ago
To be fair, it's not exactly a "raytracer", it's a program capable of rendering that specific scene (i.e. bunch of spheres) using a recursive raytracing algorithm, which isn't awfully complex in itself. Not trying t
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by 10098 13y ago
To be honest, there's a little bit of "I'm too old for this shit" attitude among them. They have have demanding jobs and families, and probably couldn't care less about what internet thinks. I also have to note that
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by 10098 13y ago
Don't fall for that bullshit. Most of the best engineers I know don't have a github/bitbucket/sourceforge/you-name-it account, which doesn't prevent them from being awesome.
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You do realize that disclosing details of a proprietary project that I've worked on might be a no-no? A lot of us have signed a paper explicitly stating that we're not allowed to do this.
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> Things like traversing a tree to find the shortest path. No one is going to address the fact that there is only ONE possible path to a node in a tree? This guy seems to have no idea what he's talking about, no wonder he dislikes a
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by 10098 13y ago
Dart != ActiveX Oh, and by the way, ActiveX would be awesome if it didn't have all the security flaws and was more portable. Too bad it didn't work.
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by 10098 13y ago
I think we broke it, the fiddle no longer works for me
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by 10098 13y ago
Crap, I wanted to post that!
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by 10098 13y ago
I would never think of asking this question since I have always just assumed that if you are building software, you are using version control. Apparently I was wrong...
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by 10098 13y ago
I tried doing that. It looks uglier than Sloth from the Goonies.
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by 10098 13y ago
Well, sometimes I need to align my lines in a certain way (e.g., if function arguments are on multiple lines, I want them to align with each other). It's often impossible to do with tabs, because they are fixed width, so I have to add
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by 10098 13y ago
Hah! Real time strategy. Try playing Dead Space without stressing out. Constant deficit of ammo and horrifying monsters ready to jump out at you when you think it's safe.
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by 10098 13y ago
While it's true that games don't necessarily have the same impact on people's lives as other, more "important" work, for me, making a game or studying how a game works is such a fun process that it's worth doin
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by 10098 13y ago
BUT DOES THIS WORK WITH NODE.JS?!1
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by 10098 13y ago
May I suggest that you STFU
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by 10098 13y ago
Most of the time your lambda looks like [](arg1, arg2){ short line of code}; which isn't that verbose at all.
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by 10098 13y ago
Is there something that lets me fold/hide comments that I have already read (like on Reddit)?
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by 10098 13y ago
Dear god, what kind of startup hires a person with only basic Java and Python knowledge, then hands them K&R and expects them to churn out production-quality code?! That's unfair.
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> In fact some verbosity is a design feature that actually helps programers maintaining large, long-living sytems. I completely agree with that. For example, static typing adds verbosity, but it also documents the program and makes figur
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by 10098 13y ago
In that case his point is moot. Of course you don't need to be as bright as Carmack to achieve some definition of success. You can be a furniture salesman and achieve success that way. But it's like saying that water is wet. His a
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by 10098 13y ago
> comic book readers You say that like reading comic books is an anti-intellectual crime. Getting to the point, look at these examples and tell me which one is better from the readability perspective. > for(std::vector<std::shared_
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by 10098 13y ago
Verbose programs are hard to read.
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by 10098 13y ago
Please read my comment more carefully. > To achieve anything similar to what Quake and Doom were at their time ... Most of the games are by no means as important as Wolfenstein/Doom/Quake were when they first came out. id sof
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by 10098 13y ago
> today you no longer need to be as brilliant as John Carmack to achieve success That is a lie. To achieve anything similar to what Quake and Doom were at their time, one must possess raw undiluted talent and no amount of tools, librarie
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by 10098 13y ago
> I'd rather have tests than types. Why? Let the compiler do the testing for you.
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by 10098 13y ago
VS6 was very fast, but its compiler was bad at standard compliance. GCC was much better. The newer MS compilers are way better at supportiung the standard and they also did a great job integrating the new language features. So I would say t
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by 10098 13y ago
it is illegal in Russia too
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Yes, and it starts with people using words without knowing what they're talking about, just to sound cool
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The third one is what annoys me the most.

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