Scuds

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by Scuds 12y ago
Doom 64 ran at 320x240. :D The sprites are higher res so it looks better when scaled up close, but in the end no different than plain old DOS doom.
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by Scuds 12y ago
> While I don't believe a phenomenon like Minecraft can be predictably and consistently churned out. And woe to those who've bilked others into thinking that from-the-ground-up hits are just an aspect of following a recipe. Sur
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by Scuds 12y ago
I always saw the unified diff view as a bit of a holdover from the terminal. Sure, diff works great if all you have is a VT220 ...
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by Scuds 12y ago
and here I am, staring down the barrel of Erlang. again
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by Scuds 12y ago
> The RAZR succeeded on design, the software sure wasn't the key attraction of that device. Yup. Synergy was probably fine for little B&W lcd screen devices, but they kept hacking onto it... > Motorola's phone O/Se
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by Scuds 12y ago
I definitely remember seeing that in one of Feynman's autobiographies like 'Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman' Einstein to Feynman: "Please explain things slowly"
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by Scuds 12y ago
I've been contracting for fifteen years across many work environments, but I can only count on one hand people I'd describe as 'slovenly overgrown babies' who'll roll home after work and play EvE and Minecraft until
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by Scuds 12y ago
I'm blanching at the term "coder", myself. It implies badly managed offshore labor just there to soak up billable hours that isn't capable of independent thought.
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by Scuds 12y ago
Maybe they should have been using fighting fish?
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by Scuds 12y ago
IIRC the demand at launch STILL overwhelmed their setup. This is a system that has evolved over the last ten years. >'I'm fascinated by this stuff.' Yeah, it's a world apart from your standard web site / services
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by Scuds 12y ago
I really really really wish I'd lived in Tokyo at that time. This was slightly after the bubble had reached its 'hookers and blow' phase where something like a fifth of the buildings in midtown Manhattan were owned by compani
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by Scuds 12y ago
Don't think of MS as a single monolith. They're a hundred businesses of various sizes that just happen to share the same HR department. > use tfs, some svn, some git, etc you can go onto MS's job board and find Rails, iOS,
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by Scuds 12y ago
Microsoft works in a similar way, so it's easy to hire vendors. But if you don't have enough internal customers, you might have budget shortfalls, so guess what happens for vendors.
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by Scuds 12y ago
> Much easier to use and faster to browse through. You can argue that if you want to, but they were adopted so much faster. I guess it comes down to tree vs flat structures for a thread. > Your ISP might not have carried every newsgro
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by Scuds 12y ago
> He, by design, doesn't owe anyone anything. A commercial game would have a tutorial mode and other bells and whistles to make it more approachable. Thing is, I have one hour a day before sleep to screw around, so is it Bob's
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by Scuds 12y ago
yup. you're not hurting for .net / sql dev roles in the Puget sound area. Starbucks, Expedia, Nordstrom, and any number of other consulting firms and smaller dev shops. Of course - Node, Rails, Django, Spring etc wouldn't be
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by Scuds 12y ago
the CEO isn't _supposed_ to come up with the vision. Jobs's hands on work on products is an outlier for a company with a very small suite of products. MS is a place with a very large portfolio of products, many of which are invi
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by Scuds 12y ago
> The idea behind waiting is that along with these layoffs are a lot of restructuring work - teams get moved around, some people actually get promoted, newly manager-less teams are absorbed by another team, etc. or people can get re-hire
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by Scuds 12y ago
This whole thing is a world apart from the kids living six to a room in hacker hostels churning out MVVM frameworks for Erlang.
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by Scuds 12y ago
> Tiny nitpick: doesn't running asm still require an operating system? The great 8-bit systems of the 80's - Apple II, C64 - booted their apps and games off of floppies all the time.
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by Scuds 12y ago
why the Apple II was still kept around for that long is kind of a mystery to me. It's not games. Maybe educational customers? Maybe next to no migration path for business users? I had an uncle who ran a veterinarian clinic off of Appl
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by Scuds 12y ago
> I think to reverse this there will need to be some very massive changes within CS education. For instance, starting it elementary school. A surprisingly large amount of the mathematical portion of CS has very little in the way of prere
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by Scuds 12y ago
even looking at the screnshots, they seem to have borrowed heavily from the Mario Paint interface, stream of icons on the top. No idea why they used a dog icon in the corner. IIRC that was the undo button in Mario Paint. http://
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by Scuds 12y ago
This is a hardly a new idea but nice to see it applied to a famous franchise like Mario. Little Big Planet is 2D platformer released in 2008 whose maps were designed built in house through their own level editor. They provided a (Stephen Fr
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by Scuds 12y ago
They'd have to support it on the PC as well. I suppose it's more of an attack surface.
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by Scuds 13y ago
> As far as we know, it never works See also, the fate of Barings Bank http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barings_Bank
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by Scuds 13y ago
>"we've done a side project or two using Node.js" realistically, unless you're part of a startup where the primary technology stack has yet to be defined, finding paid work in node isn't all that common.
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by Scuds 13y ago
It's a lot of overhead for smaller shops or those with simpler requirements, and executable specs are only as good as the people who've written them. Just the same, I've never seen a place use Cucumber as an integral part of
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by Scuds 13y ago
I've watched the people at Beecher's at Pike Place in Seattle, and it seems that 80% of what they do is cleaning. It's a hell of advertisement for the shop, though!
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by Scuds 13y ago
Got to see one of these in person along with the engines and external starter engines at Seattle's Museum of Flight. UNREAL especially for 1960 era technology.

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