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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> Dude's been blasting antisemitism on social media, in violation of long-standing, well-understood policies. Can you give specific examples? I just looked this up because I was interested. This very long winded Vice article only se
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> Loyalty to people, not ideas. Ah, so this is your belief, good to know ;) I purposely didn't mention any religions, because a belief doesn't need to imply religion. You can believe science is the ultimate decider, that herita
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> But just as you are not your car or your house, you are not your beliefs. While I get what the author is trying to say here, this doesn't feel like a great analogy to me. If I'm not attached to my beliefs, wouldn't that
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> they rarely read books. Even if they do, they read the thriller or romance novel which is currently number one on the NYT bestseller list. And...? > There is nothing wrong with reading these kinds of books, but you do not learn anyt
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> Indeed one would not solve the scalar (n = 1) system 7x = 21 by computing x = 7^-1 × 21 but rather would carry out a division x = 21 / 7 I remember learning in algebra to solve this equation exactly the way he described and said
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
Well, one man can[0], but in general this is very true. My team was talking about this same thing a few days ago, as one of our team members got switched to a new team that sprints all the time. You can't sprint your whole life, it&#x2
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> The notion of ‘truth’ belongs to the conceptual framework of knowledge Or, as I believe the OP is trying to point out, truth is what is . Just because people used to believe that maggots spontaneously generated doesn't mean it wa
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
What's the difference between a programmer looking at lots of open source code and github copilot looking at open source code? (And I'm talking MIT licensed code here).
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> The dude is literally bankrolled by the Koch Industries. This is just a straw man. Who cares who pays him? I could say the same thing for: Typescript. It's literally bankrolled by Microsoft, insert quip that says Typescript devs
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
I completely agree. This should be called: "Project Template for Ultralight in Go" It looks like the 300LoC simply wrap around ultralight and add a few boilerplate pieces. All the hard work of making "a lightweight alternativ
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> It's not new, it's influenced from American Christian culture where the social perception of individuals is more important than the truth. This isn't a uniquely Christian thing, and it's definitely not something tha
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> vector graphics are not rendered directly to the screen. What difference does it make if you're caching the rasterization or not? You're still rendering vector graphics. And you're not just rasterizing once . Modern fon
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> they rely on libraries to rasterize glyphs of a font into a bitmap once Unfortunately it's not this simple. Unicode and multilingual support means you can't possibly generate a single bitmap to contain all possible characters
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
It's complicated. Unfortunately real life is never binary. There are several gradations between open internet and dystopian closed internet that only allows you to see what the governing powers want you to see. Most people are somewher
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
I think this whole thread is very indicative of why programmers shouldn't design a product. I've been reading through the article and comments trying to figure out what "ads" were being referenced and then I finally real
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> Not sure about your specific game, but if you're using an engine or handling widget rendering yourself, you won't feel this pain. Out of all the apps that I listed, I don't believe any of them use native desktop widgets&
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
I see this all the time, and I honestly do not get it. As someone that has ported a game written in C++ for Windows to Linux... its not that hard. It took me 2 days, about 4 hours of work total, and most of the ports I had to make were beca
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
I ran into these problems with std::unordered_map. While developing my game, I would always run it in debug mode because I need to debug it. Loading a game world was taking around 12 seconds, and it was beginning to grate on me because of t
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> and I now work on the browser that comes out of the box with any Windows machine (working on a Mac most of the time). Is this why Microsoft products are getting progressively worse every year? How can you work on a product and then nev
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
In the Stack Overflow survey it looks like the top 8 frameworks are all JS, C#,and Java. Flask, Django, Laravel and RoR start coming in after all these frameworks. So it looks like most server side apps are either JS or something faster lik
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
I'm not OP, but I don't think the argument is even about rendering. The whole point of SPA, if I understand correctly, is to send the javascript/data and then dynamically create the web page client side (with minimal updates
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
I would love to sympathize with the author, but this isn't a hill I would die on. The biggest complaint in the article is: > Fast forward to 2022, and I cannot open YouTube without having an annoying pop-up urging me to subscribe to
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
You cut out part of my full statement which entirely changes the meaning ;) Here it is in context: > So I guess John Carmack is inferior and is not an ultimate craftsman. I didn't realize that their are statistics on what constitute
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> I think I hit a nerve with this one. It does tend to grate on people when you have developers from a certain community going and calling anybody that doesn't agree with their "One True Way" inferior and not loving their
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> Programmers currently using Rust are superior to programmers using C++ > People learn C++ in college. People learn Rust because they love their craft Wow... and rust programmers wonder why rust has a stigma? So I guess John Carmack
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
If I understand correctly, the reason the developers are picky about it is because imgui has become common vernacular for a certain style of gui rendering. You have retained mode guis rmguis, and immediate mode guis, imguis. It would be lik
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> This kind of claim is extremely common HN but utterly foreign as someone who actually writes C++ for a living. OP said: >> I've been engineering videogames in C++ for almost 20years working on AAA games It seems like you&#x2
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> When the president ultimately decided that the Iraqi regime must be ousted by force, he was influenced by five key factors: > 1) Saddam was a threat to U.S. interests before 9/11....He had developed WMD and used chemical weapon
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> the important thing about destructors is that you know where to find them The problem isn't that programmers have trouble finding a destructor. The problem is it's not apparent looking at any snippet of C++ code which objects
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> For prototyping and simple things, instead of mirroring my state in the DOM, I use the DOM to store state. I find it funny that people think mirroring the DOM will magically make your web app performant. I've visited plenty of Rea

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