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by annywhey 8y ago
There are other considerations beyond a simple cost per minute average here: * Uptime guarantees - AWS goes down. Running your own hardware locally, you at least have a recourse. * Storage and bandwidth - some of these datasets are huge and
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by annywhey 8y ago
It helps to keep in mind that a lot of programmers at the time just didn't have deep callstacks - they had a language that did "subroutines" but not "functions", and formal notions of separating concerns were often
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by annywhey 8y ago
2010's music is dominated by remix scenes. Across most of the popular new genres this pattern holds: * Arrangements are consistently built on samples and reconstructions of older songs. Big productions regularly credit a dozen people a
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by annywhey 8y ago
Zig is on my "must follow" list right now. It's still early enough in the going that I don't want to maintain code in it, but it's developing in a promising direction and making the kind of commitments that are reas
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by annywhey 8y ago
To be fair, it became possible to do deeper graphical optimizations in Flash later in its lifespan(particularly after the BitmapData API, and towards the very end, Stage3D) but I would agree that it wasn't in the spirit of the tool to
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by annywhey 8y ago
As someone who struggled with the "engineering calculus" track and switched to the "humanities calculus" track to do an economics major, I don't think the problem is with the material. I think it's a combinatio
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by annywhey 8y ago
Yeah, there are a few nuances to latency numbers. The 250ms pure read-react time deals with arbitrary events, but when we can chunk reactions into a practiced technique our precision goes way up, to nearly the individual millisecond: thus
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by annywhey 8y ago
I attributed side bias to my scoliosis for a long time. But after I switched from a soft bed and traditional fluffy pillow to a more minimal blankets-over-floor with small pillow, this problem went away and I will use either side without di
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by annywhey 8y ago
In three steps: 1. Pick activities and goals that are coherent with your personality as you understand it. You might have a vague idea of this but the better you articulate it, the more you'll accomplish. 2. Find new methods of feedbac
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by annywhey 8y ago
I think the secret to all of this is that the energy and enthusiasm of passion is ultimately overcome by pain. And pain slows us down, makes us retreat. But if you find your work fundamentally painless, you can put any amount of passion in
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by annywhey 8y ago
I just switched my personal site from a custom Python script that generated markup to Hugo...plus custom Python scripts. I wanted to automate the upload process too so I made something that is somewhat but not quite rsync-like (it uses a da
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by annywhey 8y ago
Do I know you from my pyspades days? I worked on that(Triplefox) and play Fortnite on the daily now. We did experiment with aimbot detection with pyspades but had false positives. Most of the featureset focused instead on assisting with man
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by annywhey 8y ago
I believe a number of factors tell the tale: * As noted, the zoning laws and general policies surrounding real estate have made it so that residential development keeps with demand. In every developed area, the buildings consistently climb
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by annywhey 8y ago
You can get more done knowing less now, but essentially, all you do by using other people's code is gain some leverage towards a specific problem. When your leveraging tool fails you and you have to debug or extend it, a strong sense o
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by annywhey 8y ago
Removal of undefined behavior is an explicit goal of Zig, in fact, and I see Zig as a stronger target for automatic C conversion since the semantics are intentionally closer to C. Still possible to trivially footgun, but the compiler tries
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by annywhey 8y ago
Basically have already lived this dream with Haxe. However the cross-platform tooling side of Haxe has historically been the fly in the ointment since it sits above the "real runtime" of whatever you targeted, creating all sorts o
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by annywhey 8y ago
I've tried a lot of ways of structuring game data but I basically agree with this assessment. Simple game logic can usually be premised on a single "God Object" type of deal that contains every possible property, or if you&#x
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by annywhey 8y ago
What I want in a language of this class is some ability to transition code from a slow/dynamic/generalized/exploratory phase to fast/static/specialized/checked. Both D and Nim offer features of that nature. (So
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by annywhey 8y ago
It's hard to pick between those two in particular. Nim is more fluid syntactically; D is more precise. D is also older and I would generally consider it more mature. (After trying both, I went with D. But in the future I want to use Zi
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by annywhey 8y ago
I've evaluated D for games. It's good in terms of giving you a palette of data modelling options from "I don't care yet" to "I need to track every byte", and having the support of multiple compiler impleme
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by annywhey 8y ago
I think the biggest issue is with the regularity of having to post things and be a "consistent product". In the era of broadcast TV this was done season by season, with the bulk of the stress coming from avoiding cancellation. You
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by annywhey 8y ago
IMHO TI-BASIC is one of the best environments for learning. Not because it's the most capable of languages or runtime engines, but because it has menus. Lots and lots of menus. The usability on a phone emulator is the same as the real
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by annywhey 8y ago
Here is a question. Do you have a good sense of how you would use your time after you quit? Obviously you would have more time for your family and hobbies, but beyond that, a lot of the challenge of working for yourself is in making sure yo
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by annywhey 8y ago
What you always need to consider when taking on a huge project is what techniques you want to leverage and whether you've scoped things appropriately. That is, when you make a small personal work, you can leverage all your technical sk
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by annywhey 8y ago
In fact, the difficulty tuning was usually harder within the first release of the game(regardless of location). So games that saw a US release first were hard there, while games released in Japan first were hard in that version. And since t
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by annywhey 8y ago
The stereotypical American setup is: Man helps by going to job, paying bills, doing "male-coded" household work(handyman, auto maintenance, etc.). Woman does "female-coded" equivalents(cooking, cleaning, shopping). In my
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by annywhey 8y ago
Everything capable of hosting "true fans" has had someone take a crack at industrializing the model at some point. That's how you get a Disney, Nintendo, or Apple. And the consequence of that is that it starves the room of ox
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by annywhey 8y ago
The advice that's stuck in my head for building up a social group is: Schedule an event of your own choosing. Advertise it when you go to other events. Something that is easy to get to, undemanding, and not costly or highly exclusive(e
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by annywhey 8y ago
I think this particular shift is more reflective of academia at large - it's trendy, and has been for a long while, to "scientize" everything with more experimental data, empiricism and math equations thrown into papers. And
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by annywhey 8y ago
It's built into the design of an organization. It has a strong parallel to the natural world and how larger creatures have a slower metabolism. The main feature that defines a really big company is that it is making something useful ou

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