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by T-R 16y ago
> And I also don't propose that this was all cooked in a room full of cackling conspirators rubbing their hands together. It's just the way a power structure works. His point is that the system of individuals acting to maximize their
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by T-R 16y ago
I don't think he means to focus so much on the historical anecdote about Ivy Leagues. His point is that the existing power structure (whether it's business, gov't, or education) is based on networking, not merit, and that by inviting some p
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by T-R 16y ago
There's a lot of duplication (Colors, Tools>Color Tools; Brush in Toolbox & as Dockable window), things that are out of place (View>Show Grid, Image>Configure Grid), common workflows that require more clicks than in other ed
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by T-R 16y ago
I'd like to see this paired with an e-ink screen on the next Kindle. Turn on only the e-ink for reading, only the LCD for UI, or both to show highlighting and notes overlaid onto the text. They could use the touch screen to get rid of all t
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by T-R 16y ago
Owning something like 5 copies of A Link to the Past, I agree with this sentiment (the format-shift argument), but I don't think it's proper justification for distributing them. As much as I'd argue it's fair for those who have paid, we c
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by T-R 16y ago
That's true, and that investment's on the customers, so idle clients aren't really a problem, unless you sell the hardware too far below cost, and they don't buy enough media. If you're Steam, this doesn't even cross your mind. When the req
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by T-R 16y ago
That would definitely mitigate some of the risk, but I'd imagine they'd have to steer clear of new games that push hardware too much - even if every system running the same game runs it from shared memory, it's still optimistically one proc
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by T-R 16y ago
True, but the hardware still needs to scale linearly with the number of concurrent connections, and it leaves them pretty susceptible to high traffic related problems, like at peak times when games are first released. What if someone decide
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by T-R 16y ago
That sounds very very expensive.
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by T-R 16y ago
Is my understanding of this correct - that they're maintaining state and performing rendering on the server for every connection to the service, and then sending each frame over the network? I am so very confused as to how this is scaling.
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by T-R 16y ago
It's been brought up a few times on HN recently, but I think it's worth bringing up again - Imposter Syndrome is rampant in our field. It's the reason a lot of people drop out or don't even get into it. You're far from the only person who f
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by T-R 16y ago
I found this presentation helpful, you might, too: http://rubyconf2008.confreaks.com/fear-of-programming.html
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by T-R 16y ago
To further play devil's advocate, there's another article here: http://www.1up.com/news/kojima-younger-generation-japan-losi... - which seems to point toward disappointment in the education system. "The engineering population in Jap
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by T-R 16y ago
There's a HN Tokyo group, but as far as I'm aware (I asked a few of them), most of those who have started businesses did it through their spouse - the visa situation is a little difficult for starting a business, but it can be done (I haven
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by T-R 16y ago
Personally, I agree, but on the other hand, Hideo Kojima has been quoted as saying that Japan has lost to western developers.
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by T-R 16y ago
Very true, but I was a little shocked to see how little of a software industry there actually is. Outside of embedded systems, there's a decent bit of B2B, but even in those more software oriented companies, programming is seen as an entry-
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by T-R 16y ago
Languages like Haskell give more benefit in security/stability, testing, and refactoring. They maybe feel like they help you develop faster since they usually involve less typing, but typing isn't really the bottleneck for developing a majo
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by T-R 16y ago
I think his point, without the "jackasses" part, is this - value creation is not zero sum, but value claiming is, so if you're creating more value than you're claiming in compensation, it implies that the person on the other side of the tab
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by T-R 16y ago
According to whose definition of value? Their view of "adding value" may be my (and my customer's) view of "imposing".
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by T-R 16y ago
It's a glass half full/half empty thing. If the (only) owner(s) of infrastructure or a limited resource offers access for only a select group, do you consider them to be offering a service to that group, or to be starving non-members of acc
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by T-R 16y ago
I got the impression that there were two issues at hand: 1) Those who have the power to delete the articles perhaps weren't knowledgeable enough to make a judgement, or for some other reason gave too much weight to his decisions, and the Af
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by T-R 16y ago
Judging from his comments, I'd wager this wouldn't have blown up if it weren't for his attitude toward the whole situation. His use of smileys coupled with his tone leaves the impression of condescension, obliviousness, or apathy toward the
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by T-R 16y ago
That is awesome. Now I know what language to learn once I finish reading "Real World Haskell". I was gonna go for Factor or Forth, but this absolutely wins.
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by T-R 16y ago
I was just thinking about that. You have to do it by hacking the infix syntactic sugar. x |> f = f x gives you lambda calculus, but it gets ugly, since you need to specify order of operations with parentheses. (4 |> (5
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by T-R 16y ago
I'm not that familiar with lisp, but it looks like he wrote a macro that allows functions to be called in postfix
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by T-R 16y ago
Japanese is a head-final, strictly left branching language, as linguists might put it, which means it's structured like postfix. This would actually let you read code strictly left-to-right (even though English speakers would be tempted to
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by T-R 16y ago
Browsing the Forbes article - seriously, they used "how the local sports team is doing" as one of their 10 factors for judging how miserable it is to live in a city?
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by T-R 16y ago
I've always gotten the impression that TDD is one of those things that many people think they should do, but have a hard time making a habit (so it's not surprising it gets more talk than action). Speaking of books, Real World Haskell cover
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by T-R 16y ago
Out of curiosity, if your validation methods (written in the server-side language) don't have environment specific side effects, couldn't you compile them to Javascript for use by client-side code (using LLVM or something)? Or does that not
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by T-R 16y ago
I think this would still leave Google with a fairly strong argument - if Bing does it for all search engines, then they're effectively copying whoever is most popular. Since it's done through Internet Explorer, which is still bundled with W

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