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by Jach 6y ago
In Java, all the time, because your code is forced into classes, and restarting a program of any non-trivial size for every minor change sucks. The default experience isn't very good when it comes to hotswapping changes, you're ba
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by Jach 6y ago
Video game studios routinely credit everyone, too. Though there's some politics involved (just like in movies) I won't get into. Could it be... that crediting is part of the industry norms in one case, and not the other? Absolutel
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by Jach 6y ago
What did you do at Zynga? It's surprising to think any gamer let alone an employee at a game studio (let alone a studio where whale hunting is the dominant business model) would think this is a new phenomenon and be confused in any way
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by Jach 6y ago
I remembered this twitter thread a few months ago on this: https://twitter.com/kendrictonn/status/1299355615257559042 I still don't disagree with any of it and offer it here without much comment. A short summ
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by Jach 6y ago
Yeah, batteries can go for a surprisingly long time. Still, I'll never buy a phone without the ability to replace it. Apart from the benefits of replacing old batteries that only hold a fraction of their original charge, swappable batt
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by Jach 6y ago
To a large extent this is mitigated by having removable batteries. From what I've heard the Nexus 10 perhaps is a notable exception where the available alternate batteries aren't very good; mine needs a new battery but I don'
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by Jach 6y ago
You can build your own SAR system pretty easily, but of course the really cool stuff results from being able to fly a plane or in this case have some satellites. The PDF for Experiment 3 here https://ocw.mit.edu/resources&#x
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by Jach 6y ago
It's not weird when you see how broken and unserious hiring is just about everywhere in the industry. On top of that the pipeline to hiring entry level/junior programmers is dominated by newly graduated college students, and of th
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by Jach 6y ago
0. Founders, non-executive employees, and even sometimes end-users can benefit, just as much or more than executives or shareholders. 1. Not really true in general, because the buyee often was not in direct competition with the buyer. In sp
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by Jach 6y ago
Well, there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiel_Fellowship but there aren't many of them and the funding is a few orders of magnitude less. Perhaps somewhat made up for in social network/connections. I
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by Jach 6y ago
"We started Zip2 with ~$2k from me plus my overclocked home-built PC, ~$5k from my bro & ~$8k from Greg Kouri (such a good guy — he is greatly missed). My Dad provided 10% of a ~$200k angel funding round much later, but by then ris
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by Jach 6y ago
Regarding 4, I'd suggest reading Object-Oriented Programming: The CLOS Perspective first. It also has a great cover (same illustrator as AMOP), though it's not evident from Amazon's page last time I checked. This book is re
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by Jach 6y ago
Bell Labs has already fallen long before, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6n_scandal (Though I only read about it earlier this year in the book Soft Machines.) Well, at least they fired him after it became cl
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Dynace – Object-Oriented Extension to C(github.com)
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by Jach 6y ago
I think at some point you turn around and become relatively unbothered again. Or you have to if you're forced to work in languages lacking things you like from other languages and don't want to feel frustrated all the time. (Doing
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by Jach 6y ago
The overlap is probably in framework builders, and that trickles down a bit to the users who like to use them and some of the users forced to use them. I wonder if "I don't need a framework" gets you crazy looks in the broade
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by Jach 6y ago
> I'm explaining why Lisp is hard to learn. It is not hard to learn in general, there are too many counterexamples of people of all sorts and skills learning it without these issues you are having, learning it as their first, learni
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by Jach 6y ago
I guess I don't know what to say other than if you really want to learn Lisp, you have to meet it on its own terms. It's old, its heritage is older and always offered a different approach to the batch style of Fortran, it's n
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by Jach 6y ago
SBCL has a manual, your main questions are answered in it: http://www.sbcl.org/manual/ Under the dev-tools/editor section you'll see slime mentioned. It too has a manual: https://www.common-lisp.ne
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by Jach 6y ago
Elsewhere in the thread makes plenty of cases for corporate advances, even (or perhaps especially?) in the 20th century with e.g. Bell Labs et al. I think the empirical results are pretty good for corporate science. As for 'needing&#x2
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by Jach 6y ago
If it's off-topic, IRC's ancient solution has always been "Take it to #channel-cafe" or whatever, perhaps a topic-specific channel. Just /join it, if it doesn't exist it gets created. Or perhaps have a 1-1. But
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by Jach 6y ago
Quip has gotten better, but unlike Slack it didn't start out already good, so the gains have been minimal. Part of it was lack of interest from the inside, where it competes with people just wanting to use or keep using google docs &#x
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by Jach 6y ago
Stability "like academia" is rich, given all we've heard about "publish or perish". Modern academia is a poor fit for increasingly any case you can think of besides maintaining the status of academia. But sure, ther
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by Jach 6y ago
It's nice that the year is in the title, I remember seeing this before... In the current year though, I think a lot of JP web design is just as modern as western design. The main difference is that there are still a lot of JP sites tha
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by Jach 6y ago
For paid translations, English likes to charge by the word, whereas Japanese charges by the character. The rule of thumb for conversion is 2 JP characters --> 1 English word i.e. translating a 1000 character JP document you'll expec
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by Jach 6y ago
I've been told that you could use the thumbs-up/thumbs-down keys to respond to prompts from programs asking you yes/no with the 'yes-or-no-p function.
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by Jach 6y ago
I had my first gout attack a couple years ago several weeks into a keto diet (had done keto before with no issues). I found https://www.virtahealth.com/blog/keto-adapted which shows a graph of uric acid spiking as you
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by Jach 6y ago
That was more or less Python's fault, rather than PyGame, which uses SDL also. I remember getting a huge speedup for one game with import psyco; psyco.full(). It's going to continue being true that Python + whatever is going to be
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by Jach 6y ago
Your high school (my junior high did it too) didn't do a "job simulation" event that is basically this? Everyone learned to balance a checkbook, be forced to deal with random events that disrupted a perfectly zeroed income&#x
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by Jach 6y ago
It is. When I was in high school over a decade ago, I did take a required financial literacy class. Required by the state. So yes, students do learn about savings accounts, CD accounts, IRA, Roth IRA. They learn about stocks, mortgages. Var

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