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by agavin 15y ago
I'll have to check that out. Although my advice will be free :-) But I'm sure that many many other good debuggers have developed the same basic techniques independently. Still, the vast majority of programmers could use some improvement in
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by agavin 15y ago
You can't have no assumptions. But half the time I help someone debug something they begin with, "it can't be in this part of the code" which is often unfounded. Now if you PROVE that it isn't, that's a different matter.
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by agavin 15y ago
Good debugging is key, and as anyone who ever worked with me will note, I'm a fantastic debugger (in no small part because I'm cold, rational, and rarely get upset). I keep meaning to write up a post for my blog with "Andy's rulez of debugg
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by agavin 15y ago
There is such a difference in coding output. Having had perhaps 50 work for me over the years (and being one myself), the top guys do perhaps 10x the output of the merely "very good" guys. And near infinite with the mediocre ones who on tou
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The Hobbit Trailer(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
1 points by agavin 15y ago|0 comments
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New Game of Thrones Season 2 Teaser(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
9 points by agavin 15y ago|0 comments
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New Naughty Dog Franchise - The Last of Us(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
1 points by agavin 15y ago|0 comments
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Book Review: Steve Jobs(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
2 points by agavin 15y ago|0 comments
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Game of Thrones goes Volcanic Glacier(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
1 points by agavin 15y ago|0 comments
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Jak & Daxter returns(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
1 points by agavin 15y ago|0 comments
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Game of Thrones Season 2 Peek(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
1 points by agavin 15y ago|0 comments
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Way of the Warrior - The Lost Interview(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
1 points by agavin 15y ago|0 comments
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Expansion of the WOW Factor(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
1 points by agavin 15y ago|0 comments
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by agavin 15y ago
I'm not a LISP hater, far from it, I love the language. In 2006 I wrote a complex multi-threaded socket and web server that talked to MySQL. I wrote it first in ACL, ported it to CMCL, then to Ruby, and then parts of it (with another progra
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by agavin 15y ago
I need to check it out -- been busy :-)
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by agavin 15y ago
The GOAL compiler, yes. The GOAL runtime no. GOAL itself produced high performance code without arbitrary GC, with simple (semi-static) runtime type checking etc. It was designed for console runtimes. I didn't write Jak & Daxter in CL,
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by agavin 15y ago
For nearly two decades I was a diehard LISP advocate. I even forced all my programers to code three Crash Bandicoot and four Jak & Daxter games in custom LISP dialects that I wrote the compilers for (an article on one here http://all-t
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by agavin 15y ago
I compiled some of these posts and some other thoughts on LISP (far far from completely formed, but perhaps amusing) into a blog post: http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/10/25/lispings-ala-joh...
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Lispings ala John McCarthy(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
25 points by agavin 15y ago|9 comments
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by agavin 15y ago
CLOS is perhaps more powerful, but the whole generic function thing is more awkward than object based dispatching. It is perhaps more powerful as it allows arbitrary overloading, but it was a pain. And I wrote a really big CLOS program: The
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by agavin 15y ago
I keep meaning to check it out. But my pile of "keep meaning too" (which includes bills, taxes, and other boring things) is very large.
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by agavin 15y ago
Thanks for all fan love :-) One of the interesting things about LISP is that it's actually a pretty easy language to parse, interpret, and compile. This isn't actually an accident as the S-expression syntax I'm sure was initially chosen for
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by agavin 15y ago
Well it certainly shows you how BAD/OLD the CMCL and ACL Garbage Collection code/algo's were (at least when I last used them in 2006). In ACL you could get these LispMachine-like multi-hour GCs. Now we use tons of GC based systems everyday
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by agavin 15y ago
For nearly two decades I was a diehard LISP advocate. I even forced all my programers to code three Crash Bandicoot and four Jak & Daxter games in custom LISP dialects that I wrote the compilers for (an article on one here http://all-t
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Foodie Photography 101(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
1 points by agavin 15y ago|0 comments
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Steve Jobs is Dead :-((all-things-andy-gavin.com)
2 points by agavin 15y ago|0 comments
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by agavin 15y ago
A number of factors. Games were much smaller then and a competitive game could be done in 1-2 years by 2-4 people. The budgets were usually in the 5 digits. This made it much easier to do if you knew how. On the flip side, far fewer people
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by agavin 15y ago
I and my partner started Naught Dog, Inc. from scratch (some various articles I've written on this here http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/video-games/ ). We went from 2 (us) to well over 100 employees. Building from bigger and bigger game o
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Revision Slog – Novel as Algorithm(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
2 points by agavin 15y ago|0 comments
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Will We All Be Sucked Into Virtual Reality?(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
2 points by agavin 15y ago|0 comments

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