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by andywood 9y ago
Hello HN. About three months ago I was thinking about how I would like to get some dominos, in order to try making some basic binary arithmetic circuits. That's when it hit me: why buy physical dominos when I could make a 3D sim, where
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Show HN: Domino Playground – A puzzle game about making domino logic circuits(gaiaeternal.itch.io)
8 points by andywood 9y ago|1 comments
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by andywood 9y ago
It was a screensaver that I wrote between tech support calls. The CEO asked me about it, I told him I wrote it, and he put me on the dev team that afternoon. It was C and C++, drivers and apps on Windows.
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by andywood 9y ago
https://gaiaeternal.itch.io/gaia-eternal It's a big procedural crafting game. The long-term goal is to make a Civilization-like game set in a Minecraft-like world, with really good AI. It's also a testbed for a bu
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by andywood 9y ago
I know a little rudimentary theory. Just enough to get mocked by someone with a real education. "without any theory" is sort of an impossible standard to satisfy, but I will say I never think about theory consciously, and go by
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by andywood 10y ago
You can @ anybody. They don't get to confirm / approve. They do see the full text in notifications.
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by andywood 10y ago
I agree there isn't a killer game yet, and half the titles are actually demos being sold as games. However there are already several very good games: Eagle Flight, Bound, Robinson, Job Simulator. I'm not even slightly disappointed
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by andywood 10y ago
Recently, this profiler for multi-threaded Unity apps. It's almost the simplest thing that could work, but it's surprisingly effective. I've used it almost exclusively to optimize the hell out of the multi-threaded game I&#x2
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by andywood 10y ago
I was a long time Chrome user, and was driven to Opera as Chrome got slower and slower each year. Now I find Chrome basically unusable, in that pages take far too long to become scrollable, and suffer from other kinds of unresponsiveness. O
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by andywood 10y ago
There's no problem with the statistics. It's understood that the worlds in which anybody is 200 years old are extremely few. The probability that you'll experience such a world is either 0 or too close to make a difference. B
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by andywood 10y ago
I recently did a lot of research into this as part of a project. As far as actual laws on the books (and not whatever one's political opinion of how they tend to be applied), the U.S. isn't just "one of" - it is literal
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by andywood 10y ago
I'm forced to conclude that some people actually are p-zombies. In 100% of discussions of consciousness, you have a few people pleading for a discussion of subjective experience / awareness, a lot more people acting as if they can
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by andywood 10y ago
https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Warning https://tails.boum.org/doc/about/warning/index.en.html
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by andywood 10y ago
People get very hung up on the complexity of the language and all the bad code one could potentially write. I use a C++ compiler to compile my preferred subset of the language, and for me that's within epsilon of the best of all possib
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by andywood 10y ago
It's really no use criticizing some random individual for using their money to buy something that's for sale. If you don't want a thing to be bought, you have to find some way to make it not for sale.
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by andywood 10y ago
Maybe "count" is too restrictive depending on how you think of counting. Substitute "reached" or "located" if you like. As another comment here says (paraphrasing) if a real can't be named, is it even a th
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by andywood 10y ago
I'll try to summarize my finitist position, which I seem stuck with despite years of trying to accept the mainstream / Cantorian view. One criticism is that the mainstream treatment of infinity is more invented, and less grounded
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by andywood 10y ago
This changes real life into an RPG conversation tree.
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by andywood 10y ago
A game I finished in '96. Still playable thanks to DOSBox.
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by andywood 10y ago
I hope that someday someone smarter than me figures out how to make a truly free internet that isn't bound to be undermined by laws, ISPs, and hosting providers. Of course you would still be free to program censorship into your own wal
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by andywood 10y ago
Complaining that ubiquitous jargon is a "non-word" makes you look... something.
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by andywood 10y ago
Those are some rose-colored glasses. I could easily make a list of the best things about being in the hospital, too. I'd estimate that my 18 years in software development have been about 25% good, 25% tolerable, and 50% team/boss-
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by andywood 11y ago
I get contacted by internal company recruiters on LinkedIn. I've found my last two jobs that way.
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by andywood 11y ago
I've been a dev for 17 years. I've worked at a mid-sized, a startup, and two BigCos, and can't remember anyone ever asking about my education. Hiring conversations are always overwhelmingly about projects I have done.
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by andywood 11y ago
This was my bootstrapping process: Got a tech-support job at a software company. During my first week, wrote a company-themed screensaver. Showed it to the CEO. Became a developer later that day.
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by andywood 11y ago
I think Infinifactory is mind-blowingly amazing on many levels - an epic triumph of game design. The components are few and simple, but provide enormous combinatorial possibilities. There's a logic-language and aesthetic that emerges,
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by andywood 11y ago
Games and graphics are the whole reason I started programming, but after 20 years of on and off game programming, I mostly agree with the article. The technical details of how games and graphics work are very interesting, but the actual pro
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by andywood 11y ago
Normally, I read slower and experience an internal voice. It is different from hearing a voice with my ears. Not just quieter, but different in a way I can't put into words. Yet also similar. If I either speed up, or consciously suppre
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by andywood 11y ago
This was my 2nd go-round at MS. I also worked there for 5 years, earlier in my career, and had a better time. This time, I was working as a contractor, so switching teams was not an option. And again, the day-to-day was so horrific, that so
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by andywood 11y ago
I'd say this is a bit extreme, even for a programming interview test. I think it assumes you've already done something like it in the past. But then, if you haven't, then maybe you aren't a fit for this particular job. I

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