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by _gabe_ 3y ago
> Why would developers want to make a game that isn't fun? Of course nobody wants to make a game that isn't fun. But I know just how easy it is to get caught up into the "hustle" mentality where all you're focuse
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> Most importantly, the general reader should know that all labs researching viruses do research on dangerous viruses. After all there is no incentive to research benign viruses. I'm curious how you came up with this heuristic. It s
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> OP gives sober perspective of regular Joe, who didn't have VR as a wet dream since early childhood Yes, the average Joe doesn't care about this stuff. That's why Ready Player One grossed 600 million dollars at the box
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Thank you, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills or something. I have no idea how much of the footage in the long advertisements are actual in-headset recording vs highly editorialized made up aspirational CG. Additionally, I really don&#
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TIL. Sometimes it's very frustrating trying to transition from Windows to Unix, and menu bars being at the top of the screen is one of those things that still doesn't quite stick with me. Hopefully it'll stick this time :)
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Try opening finder and going to your home directory. Where is it? Heck if I know. It's ridiculous that I couldn't right-click, click a folder hierarchy, search, or anything! No visible indicators, no hints, no way at all to just g
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
> I mean the absolute basics Which are...? I'm guessing, depending on the niche you work in, your basics are very different from many other niche's C++ basics. If you're working in FPGA development you'll have very di
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>> The problem is the amount of ceremony, silly OOP abstractions, dependency injection, etc. Your code snippet certainly has a lot of unnecessary ceremony. Why use a builder object at all? Why use a static class with a function to bui
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> I get the benefits of dependency injection I don't. I think dependency injection encourages thoughtless code. It makes it easier to "magically" make your dependencies appear wherever you want them without having to think
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> Have you actually done meaningful software development? For a specific example - designing a complex system is definitely hard to do remotely. Have you actually done meaningful software development? I'm sorry for the tone, it&#x
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I couldn't disagree more. The worst codebases I've seen in my career have been codebases that were religiously planned upfront, and then religiously adhered to The Plan. Irregardless of the revelations that popped up in the midst
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It looks like it was, I wasn't aware of that :) It also looks like it's been deprecated since C89 and the use of the style has also been discouraged since then according to this article[0]. > At the time, they felt they could n
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> Another big incompatibility with C and C++ is that C++ is actually incompatible with K&R syntax Why in the world would you use K&R syntax to demonstrate the differences between C and C++? Some of the most readable C code I&#x27
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> Even still, the fact that the core game can be recreated without too much effort does suggest that that it was more about being a good idea than being difficult to implement As someone that's "recreated the core game" a
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> You want to tell me that will choke and croak just doing mundane stuff like playing games or browsing the internet? The fact that you're comparing browsing the internet with playing AAA games speaks volumes. Browsers are capable o
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
Man, the amount of misunderstanding present in the comments here is astonishing. 1. YT doesn't decide how many ads to show. The creator of the video gets to choose exactly how many ads are shown and when and where they are shown. If yo
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
> places like Kansas City because local abortion laws rule out certain medical procedures that could save the mother's life What? The headline of the article you linked literally says: > Missouri, Kansas hospitals that denied eme
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
> What? You can compile it with just the stuff you need and only activate stuff without any dependencies. Sure, but running config alone takes like 10-15 minutes on my PC with an Intel I7-9700K processor at 4.9GHz. This is while using al
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
> That is a novel definition of "spagetti". It's a pejorative term in software sense. Why? I don't necessarily agree with everything OP is saying, and I certainly don't speak for them, but I completely understand
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> But like I said: the alternative is both more descriptive and avoids the issue What issue? Dark is used in the sense that the tactics are hidden. As in, you can't see stuff in the dark. The real issue here is people automatically
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
I completely empathize with this sentiment and understand where you're coming from. However, I've been writing tutorials and documentation for awhile now, and while editing my videos I realized that I would often say "see, si
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> Or maybe they're just over-reacting to defuse the mob but I don't think that's super likely. I guess you don't believe in "innocent until proven guilty".
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> You can be sure that the people interested in conversions run analytics and A/B testing on everything. If these pop-ups did a poor job and there was a better alternative, you can be sure that everyone would have already migrated t
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
Does the `main()` function in GCC only do one thing? It compiles a program, that's one thing right? Alright, have fun writing an entire compiler in one function. Besides, Bob Martin even mentions this in his book "Clean Code"
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> That is incompatible with a company that seems to want to make fun things for a family to play, like Nintendo. Yes, because sibling rivalry and intense competition among family simply never happens. It's always just a fun time whe
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
> Emacs also has a built in email client, RSS reader, IRC client, calculator, file browser, web browser, markup language, regex DSL, Vim emulator, terminal emulator, custom elisp based shell, interactive REPL that works for several progr
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
Uninstalling a program via the Add or Remove Programs GUI doesn't clean up the registry entries. I noticed this awhile ago and realized I had hundreds of old registry entries for games I had uninstalled a long time ago. Plus, most peop
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This is a 100% fair criticism and I'm sorry I took the tone I did with my response. After re-reading through your original comment and my response, my response seems unwarranted. > Of course. I agree 100% and didn't realize th
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
Sure! Here's a few: http://qualityisspeed.blogspot.com/2014/08/why-i-dont-teach-... https://blog.cerebralab.com/Bimodal_programming_%E2%80%93_wh... https://stackoverflow.com/q
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
Sure here's one https://www.programiz.com/python-programming/online-compiler... and I'm sure you could find hundreds of others :)

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