Deestan

34 ms·

361.
by Deestan 15y ago
> the author claims that a variable of type Double is "a function with no arguments". I believe he was trying to make the very important point that in a functional language, there is no conceptual difference between a variable containin
362.
by Deestan 15y ago
SpiderWeb is the only CRPG developer that doesn't just throw in experience points and swords and calls it a day.
363.
by Deestan 15y ago
> I'm sorry the game market is driven in that direction. Established companies and the media go in that direction, but there are plenty of indie/underground/weirdo games that stick to the old principles of depth and originality. http:/
364.
by Deestan 15y ago
Assembly is low level; practically machine code. It is hard for humans to read, and writing a program concept in assembly must go through a lot of layers. HTML is high-level and designed for humans to read and write. It maps directly to
365.
by Deestan 15y ago
> For example, a system was built crappily, and you refer to it later on as incurred technical debt. But, a crappy mess will become a technical debt the moment you recognize it and make a business decision not to spend time on fixing
366.
by Deestan 15y ago
> almost all of the flexibility of dynamic typing but with the benefits of static typing. Just wait until you try Haskell's type inference. :)
367.
by Deestan 15y ago
It's well and good to tell people to "think!" instead of following dogma, but what if you are too inexperienced to think clearly about the issue? Ideological purity makes sense if you face something overwhelmingly complex and don't really
368.
by Deestan 15y ago
Double the numbers, substitute "mega" with "giga" and "floppy" with "usb stick" and it's up to date again. :)
369.
by Deestan 15y ago
This is a discussion about engines. Your comment is non sequitur.
370.
by Deestan 15y ago
> - Makes it look like a medical emergency A critical insulin overdose with the pump log full of remote access entries will look like murder . Anyway, dropping poison in their drink while they're in the bathroom is easier, cheaper, mor
371.
by Deestan 15y ago
> So what are some dumb things developers constantly do? People will give tons of various anecdotes on this, but they apply to them , not you . The stories they tell are just the scorched remains of a unique learning experience that
372.
by Deestan 15y ago
> The counter-argument is, of course, that someone who knows they can't fulfill all contractual clauses will try to check off the easy ones only Not a valid counter-argument because that is another problem altogether. They're detecting
373.
by Deestan 15y ago
> "anchored in the old paradigm of storage being a commodity that must be conserved" The author seems to think that Google's innovation was to simply ignore the storage problem and then it went away. What they did was work immensely
374.
by Deestan 15y ago
> if you need some settings that can be accessed/changed from many different classes then the design of your app is severely lacking. If he's making a game, this is completely acceptable design. Games programming is wildly different fr
375.
by Deestan 15y ago
Of course not, but the one time they are acceptably civil isn't the time to bring out the ban hammer.
376.
by Deestan 15y ago
Probably interesting to the person making the poll, to see how many of her followers liked Google+. Completely useless to anyone else.
377.
by Deestan 15y ago
Completely agree with the types part. I did not try to say that Java or C++ are strictly typed, but that the types (ie. classes) that are used in programs are taken seriously. By this I mean that if you are looked down by serious C++ de
378.
by Deestan 15y ago
Counting proper languages I actually wrote something useful in, my path looks like: C64 BASIC -> C64 raw machine code -> QBasic -> x86 raw machine code -> Turbo Pascal -> C -> Visual Basic -> Java -> O'Ca
379.
by Deestan 15y ago
So real numbers are 1-dimensional, and complex numbers are 2-dimensional. Going along the same lines, we also have Quaternions, 4-dimensional numbers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternion Further again we have 8-dimensional Octonions
380.
by Deestan 15y ago
If you're lucky, you might also realize that being condescending is alienating and a bad way to get your point across.
381.
by Deestan 15y ago
And more importantly, if a function has [WifiResult] as the defined return type, you can be absolutely definitely sure that you get a list back. This is not something inherently unique to Haskell. Any strictly typed language could easi
382.
by Deestan 15y ago
I've found that you can just keep shoving marketing bullshit through badtranslator[1] until the message becomes clear: > Salesforce.com remains a stock with much upside, according to analysts at RBC Capital Markets, as the company conti
383.
by Deestan 15y ago
> A [somewhat exaggerated] summary: "there are so many security holes in web browsing already, why do you begrudge us a few more?" Alternative summary: A has X. B has X. It is inconsistent to bash A for X while promoting B.
384.
by Deestan 15y ago
> I don't want to name an innocent person, but will link to someone who thinks they know who it could be: [link] That makes as much difference as "I'm not hitting you, this stick I am holding is hitting you".
385.
by Deestan 15y ago
I know. But when displaying the Minecraft landscape afterwards you either have to leave the disregarded textures out, which looks like crap, or apply them stretched, which looks like total crap, or apply a smoothed gradient, which also loo
386.
by Deestan 15y ago
The Minecraft voxels are decorated by textures that are designed to fit the cube form. A devoxalization is going to look like crap.
387.
by Deestan 15y ago
You'd have to recalculate the shape after that, as the interior density is no longer uniform.
388.
by Deestan 15y ago
Passer-by catching a glimpse of my big TV through my street-facing uncovered window? Sure. Standing outside and watching my TV for 10 minutes? Please leave before I call the police. Creepy guy with zoom-lensed camera in a van trying to pe
389.
by Deestan 15y ago
Morally, it's also not just how you break in, but what you do afterwards. I.e. if you prevent more harm than you do. If you enter the unlocked door and write "HI YOU FORGOT TO LOCK YOUR DOOR" with lipstick on the bathroom window, you're
390.
by Deestan 15y ago
> The average human brain has shrunk by 20% in size since the last 10 000 years. Thats the size of a tennis ball, or the size of an australopithecus afarensis brain. That sounds both crackpot and irrelevant. I suggest citing sources a

More ›