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by Deestan 16y ago
I remember this was used in my C64 Basic handbook back in the day. There was a code listing of a cat-and-mouse type of game where a labyrinth was generated like this, and the cat did a depth-first-travesal of the entire maze to catch you.
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by Deestan 16y ago
> how does the strategy pattern differ from just passing a function pointer? It's just a verbose way to perform the same abstraction. Use it only if function pointers are unavailable or considered unsafe in your programming language.
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by Deestan 16y ago
To sum up: - Some use two spaces because they are used to it. They are wrong, stupid and annoying. - Author use two spaces because he's used to it. Why can't you see that he is correct? To give an actual argument related to value, I think
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by Deestan 16y ago
"I'd be doing this completely differently." indeed.
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by Deestan 16y ago
An often overlooked option is to look for a great programmer who knows any other language well and is willing to learn your shop's pet language. Hire him, provide some learning room, and he'll be up to Level Competent in no time compared
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by Deestan 16y ago
Aren't you afraid that you are abusing the trust of your customers? They say "medium" and trust you to provide a reasonably-sized coffee, but you sell them a large one instead. Have you tracked how many customers leave their coffee half-fi
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by Deestan 16y ago
> What happens when the car drives out of range of the key while it is running? Does the engine just turn off[...]? Would be nasty. Imagine the car key running out of battery on the motorway.
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Portrait of the Gamer as Enemy (another reason creators should avoid their fans)(erasmatazz.com)
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by Deestan 16y ago
Zaxxon would be an excellent candidate for a voxel re-make, as it had 3d gameplay.
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by Deestan 16y ago
"Innovation, exploration and discovery" were all rampant in the 80-es, especially on European C64 games. Some examples of music that uses the unique noises of the SID chip instead of only imitating existing instruments: - Arkanoid (Martin
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by Deestan 16y ago
And to top it off, a link bait title "Top %d %s of 2010".
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by Deestan 16y ago
There's more to Ad Hominem arguments than unjustified personal insults.
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by Deestan 16y ago
This very complex "simple" explanation of Git is funny because Git is rumored to have a steep learning curve, and the Git documentation is very heavy on theory and models. It is also a bit funny because a lot of educated readers will try to
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by Deestan 16y ago
I think it's because Linux has a larger fraction of highly paid techies than the other platforms.
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by Deestan 16y ago
It is just a toy implementation. If we're going to worry about practicals, then it's not recommended to use your own general purpose sorting implementations at all . For general purpose sorting, the standard library "always" has the best
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by Deestan 16y ago
> There was a huge increase in speed - people were actually COMPETING who can set a record! We had that when those cameras were introduced in Norway too. The cameras were then changed to not displaying speeds above the limit - it now j
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by Deestan 16y ago
Pick whatever naming scheme comes to mind, but something that vaguely relates to the program's functionality + a degree of silliness makes the name easier to remember.
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by Deestan 16y ago
As with all other dictionary/map implementations, hash tables are O(log n) in the general case.
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by Deestan 16y ago
Just mentioning Primer is enough to send my brain into tilt. I have to watch in again tonight.
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by Deestan 16y ago
Again, the "plaza" part of the sentence is not relevant to the actual point I was making. I did not claim that specific change gave a huge boost in clarity. > How exactly is that any different from "the plaza"? It is different in that
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by Deestan 16y ago
Ah, yes. That is actually what the Lojban sentence would have said. My "translation" of that part was a bit off.
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by Deestan 16y ago
> Just because you said "the only plaza" doesn't make it unambiguous. That was just me compressing it to fit somewhat into English. What it really would say is "the only plaza which fits the current context", as opposed to e.g. "the sp
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by Deestan 16y ago
> Why should we not alter our "natural", i.e. legacy based, communication when dealing with computers? Or when dealing with each other, for that matter. In Lojban, it is grammatically incorrect for someone to give me vague directions l
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by Deestan 16y ago
Correct. They can only be placed on the top of voxels, but they can propagate forward and up. I.e. you can build "stair wires" but not "column wires".
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by Deestan 16y ago
Like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaoSzCfa9OM
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by Deestan 16y ago
That makes sense. It didn't occur to me that someone might want to run a monkey test in a live environment, but I guess it is necessary sometimes.
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by Deestan 16y ago
Doesn't it defeat the testing purpose if you perform a check to take a different code path when the testing tool runs?
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by Deestan 16y ago
Have you tried contacting Amnesty International? This case sounds right up their alley, so they should at least be able to give helpful advice.
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by Deestan 16y ago
We mourn babies and children more because they did not get a chance to live a full life - a loss of potential in more formal terms. People who reach old age have fulfilled all the potential they can realistically expect to, and death is les
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by Deestan 16y ago
checking facts ... You are correct. I incorrectly assumed they were equivalent to UK and Norwegian customs, where customs and border protection are separate entities.

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