Roboprog

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by Roboprog 7y ago
>> respected the time of the player THAT! As a “filthy casual”, I have other things to do in life , some of which earn money to buy these games. I appreciate it when games let you skip things you aren’t enjoying (duh!!!). It allows
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by Roboprog 7y ago
I don’t remember any more. We fixed it a few days later, but it didn’t cause much trouble so it was largely forgotten.
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by Roboprog 7y ago
I remember having to go into work at 4:00 AM to replace the shift that spent the night in the operations support center. Fortunately, the guys that spent the previous year sweating the details got it right. We had one system that printed y
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by Roboprog 7y ago
Putting a space between discrete symbols would have helped the first example considerably + / ! 1000
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by Roboprog 7y ago
OTOH, there is something to be said for reading fewer lines in some cases. Conifer forest Vs Pine Pine Cedar Spruce Pine Cedar ...
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by Roboprog 7y ago
Cool. Do you ever watch any of SpeedsterDEN on YouTube?
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by Roboprog 7y ago
I have an electric powered flying wing I used to do this one windy day a few years ago. No bungee or other setup. Just toss it over the hill. Under-the-wing video: https://youtu.be/dFeZB1qpMk8
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by Roboprog 7y ago
Definitely not in “park flyer” category any more. Carbon fiber decapitating blades of death if you get too close. HHOS.
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by Roboprog 7y ago
I have never worked in the game industry but I love your comment “you can’t unit test fun”. There is definitely value in having both automated testing for repetitive stuff, AND, humans touching stuff to spot unspecified insanity.
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by Roboprog 7y ago
Thank you for contrasting life building the latest social media platform from what many of the rest of us do. Currently I work on systems to prepare and validate birth and death certificates for the state, counties, hospitals, et al, and th
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by Roboprog 7y ago
Is 5 seconds an initial load, or every time the user clicks a button or menu item? Business to business app, or sales site? YMMV. 5 seconds could be intolerable, or a big improvement.
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by Roboprog 7y ago
Hmm. There is a lot of difference between a sales brochure site, and a business to business site / app, with things in between. If you are running a marketing or sales oriented site, you want to minimize friction. It sounds like you a
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by Roboprog 7y ago
I suspect you’re quite right, and the engineers knew what they were doing. But the requirements were crap, alas.
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by Roboprog 7y ago
The “payload “ of this article might be the line that attributes the so called crash to a trade war that damaged free trade. Some partisans consider free trade to be sacred, others, evil. Disclosure: I lean more towards “free trade is evi
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by Roboprog 7y ago
Thanks. As basic (and utterly unnecessary/counterproductive) as this app (client) is, it looks like the real villain is the server side.
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by Roboprog 7y ago
Ob: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref... E voting shouldn’t exist. How badly it was implemented is moot.
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by Roboprog 7y ago
Sadly, my 2011 MacBook Pro won’t update to these later versions, so I just have to leave it running for months at a time. Perhaps when the keyboard fails, someday, I’ll replace it, instead of just upgrading the RAM and drive. Kidding aside,
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by Roboprog 7y ago
Have any recommendations on where to put the money from that payday loan so John Q Workingman can retire early?
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by Roboprog 7y ago
Also, by “hire people”, I mean directly, for a living wage, NOT outsourcing to billionaires who skim most of the money off the top and pay out minimum wage to a bunch of part time giggers.
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by Roboprog 7y ago
How do you start a business for a product for which there is no demand? Not as in “didn’t know I wanted it” but as in “can’t pay for it “. That said, I’m not a fan of UBI. Yes, do tax the hell out of people who made fortunes from their in
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by Roboprog 7y ago
I assume the Yang Gang is downvoting the comments against UBI Yes, this is article is very politically timed given the upcoming primaries.
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by Roboprog 7y ago
How much does a MB of L-n cache cost? I don’t have the answer, but you would want to measure dollars to buy it, and nanoseconds to refill it.
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by Roboprog 7y ago
Oh wait, the article is about performance, not safety. Real programmers don’t care about reliability, only if it’s performant at interweb scale. Meh.
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by Roboprog 7y ago
I guess it depends. I guess I’m somewhat used to the asynchronous I/O model that things like Win16 and JavaScript use. You have to think a bit more about the unpredictable order that things happen in, but not about preemption race con
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by Roboprog 7y ago
Interesting. That’s a different world from the business, or development tool, projects I have ever worked on. Never worked on any real time stuff. Looks like they are very big on using a flat finite state machine model. At least at Saab.
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by Roboprog 7y ago
Yeah, feels like the tip of the iceberg.
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by Roboprog 7y ago
Yeah, pg_cron, then. Updating a materialized view feels like a data integrity issue which should be addressed within the DB itself, if not the DDL for the view itself.
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by Roboprog 7y ago
It also seems odd to me that the refresh is scheduled in the app instead of the database. Can anybody here speak to that choice?
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by Roboprog 7y ago
So that there is a “chain of custody “ from plan to production completely within the US. Presumably the people working in such would be reachable by US law, if not closely aligned with their own country’s interests.
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by Roboprog 7y ago
Type inference from analyzing data flow. Especially if you avoid making everything global.

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