James_Duval

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by James_Duval 13y ago
Could you explain briefly why this is the case? I don't understand.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
nerdook was able to churn out very popular, very similar Flash games for ages. He did this primarily by a form of marketing, possibly unintentional, in which he was constantly accessible to and friendly with his fans. E: Removed a dumb stat
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Having done a very small amount of research into it I actually think it would be surprising if it did use Strassen's. EDIT: At least frequently, I assume it would use Strassen's for larger matrices much in the same way as intros
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Moz have a weird view of how to obtain success, because due to their fame they're guaranteed to succeed every time they put up a post. Take any practical tips they give with a hefty helping of salt. They are very good at the theory,
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by James_Duval 13y ago
> What is some of the best writing you've ever seen that is structured as a list? http://www.weitz.de/cl-ppcre/
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Ooh, Matrix multiplication? Would I get to use Strassen's sub-cubic algorithm? I've been looking for an excuse to use it.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
>I have a bootstrapped startup (a competitor to Moz actually) Oooh, metric-y tools? Might I ask for a link?
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by James_Duval 13y ago
This is why I love my Nokia 100. I don't want or need a smartphone, that's what my computer - or on the go, my laptop - is for. I want a reliable phone that will get me out of emergencies and sticky situations. A smartphone that r
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Failure to include a winky face in tweet results in collapse of game studio - now that's a story.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
The title's unclear because I'm not entirely confident in my understanding of the naming rules here; so I stuck with the title I saw on the page. If anyone wants to know what content's on the page before they click (and scrol
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by James_Duval 13y ago
...I think that article about "1 Weird Tip" has perpetually ruined me. I see the "X (Unusual|Unlikely|Weird|Bizarre) (Tip(s)|Recommendation(s)|Trick(s)) for blah blah blah" format everywhere.
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Fudging Up A Racket(hashcollision.org)
6 points by James_Duval 13y ago|1 comments
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by James_Duval 13y ago
The Robert Sachs who commented wouldn't be the "Robert R Sachs" of Fenwick & West LLP whose job is establishing lists of patents for large companies, I suppose? Read his comment for some entertainingly wrong-headed views
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Irrelevant tangent: ActionScript 2 was a lot more like Javascript than ActionScript 3 is.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Sometimes it's cronyism, sad to say. One particular non-profit I've had contact with is really bad at this. It verges on pure corruption at times. Why receive a service for free from someone you don't know when you can pay a
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by James_Duval 13y ago
also tastes faintly of crab.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
He has a point though. Look at his awful blog post. It's appallingly-written, doesn't make much sense, invokes various logical fallacies - and hit the front page of HN! "So here I am getting this post out in the field ASAP, l
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by James_Duval 13y ago
I find Lisp-like syntax highly readable - more readable than C-like syntax for sure. I find that anything more verbose (EDIT: I'm having difficulty thinking of the right word for what I mean here - hopefully you understand anyway) is u
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Cheaper, but also worse for employee health and morale, is not necessarily cheaper in the long-term. Movable glass walls and partitions address most of your other concerns, I think.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
I should have said: >Either personal computing was a great idea or it's solely a platform for the trivial and banal, you can't have it both ways. Even then I concede that this was a straw man for the Telegraph journalist&#x27
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by James_Duval 13y ago
The point of this article, but not the point of the Telegraph article the quote is from.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Very much agreed. In addition... Brain power is not a fungible resource. You cannot divert excess brain power to any task you choose. It's a highly specific, highly targeted resource which seems to me to be horribly capricious and (iro
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by James_Duval 13y ago
I found the title slightly misleading. I was expecting an interesting article about a deliberate handing-over of credit card and PIN to a known fraudster, in an attempt to examine their behavioural patterns and maybe offer some anecdotal in
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Emacs didn't work very well on the Bouchon loom ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basile_Bouchon ) but dammit, they tried.
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by James_Duval 13y ago
I created a game in Actionscript 2.0 back in 2009. I started to program in around November of 2011. Being able to cobble together an app or what-have-you is very different from programming, I think. I would not call what I did back then pro
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by James_Duval 13y ago
> Scheme Out of interest, what are the dark corners of Scheme? I've been using Racket for a while now and I've not come across any unexpected behaviour. I suppose using non-idiomatic language elements such as mutations is a lit
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by James_Duval 13y ago
Of course, the rogue-like scene is also as strong as it ever was -- and it's definitely got a ton of hidden content/game-play mechanics. I wish I saw more games like one Ragdoll Invaders , though. The reason I say this is that mu
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A Guide To Setting Up Small Or Local Businesses(thomsonlocal.com)
1 points by James_Duval 13y ago|0 comments
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by James_Duval 13y ago
> If we are to work with women, we really need this hysteria to calm down. I don't know if you are familiar with where the term "hysteria" originated, but it is about as appropriate in this context as the word "uppity
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by James_Duval 13y ago
If it contains any of the now-unobtainable Pokemon granted at conventions, I imagine it would make many a twitchy obsessive completionist quite happy. I don't know if it actually does. I think what's interesting about it is going

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