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by annywhey 8y ago
I think I know what parent is getting at. I am increasingly able to bypass the "load problem into brain" stage by reducing the problem scope to a subset. When the problem seems potentially quite large, like "greenfield a new
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by annywhey 8y ago
A vest with zipper pockets is my go-to all weather solution now (outside the hottest of climes)
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by annywhey 8y ago
For old 8-bit games with exploitable PRNG, an emulator with scripting support is sometimes used to determine exact movement patterns(see e.g. NESCardinality's Dragon Warrior). Routing is not something that easily maps to application so
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by annywhey 8y ago
This is only sort of true in that while there are hardware supported things, the way in which you work with them is both more finicky than most APIs, and they get you relatively less close to a finished renderer. For example, concepts like
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by annywhey 9y ago
1. The projects that fail are often cancelled rather than bad releases, because they go so far off the rails that they are not even functioning, saleable products. When a film production goes wrong, you still have footage, you can still us
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by annywhey 9y ago
I can offer some economic perspective. Oftentimes the critical advance for technology to reach deployment is not a theoretical breakthrough in the primary science but rather a change in aggregate costs, ability to organize capital, seconda
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by annywhey 9y ago
The article is based around bundling together a lot of small points and backing it up with shaky analogies to economic theory(e.g. an undergraduate course would probably focus on utility instead of rent). It's framed in a way that I wo
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by annywhey 9y ago
I have thought about this problem some and currently see it as an issue of scaling thresholds. If it's literally just you, there's a lot of benefit to leveraging existing work so that you can focus on the differentiating part of t
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by annywhey 9y ago
I like to draw a distinction between abstraction and automation as architecture ideas. Abstract stuff is "just" more abstract and adds a new concept on top of the old. Abstraction makes the coder feel all grown up and maintain the
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by annywhey 9y ago
One more athletics market: martial arts. If you train judo/jiujitsu, your existing uniform is a heavy cotton or cotton/poly weave that is built to last through the abuse of training partners gripping and yanking it every which wa
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by annywhey 9y ago
I open a Gdocs page and start writing a project diary. It serves the same purpose as the recording of transactions in accounting: rather than try to skip to a summary of tasks, bugs, or features, first I have to develop a "primary sour
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by annywhey 9y ago
On the one hand, it's not worth it if you have become a traumatising figure(e.g. bad breakup) - an apology can't fix that. On the other, a heated online argument, you're anonymous and only remembered as one more incident of l
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by annywhey 9y ago
That's implied but the context is shaky. What if, as the comment says, the format string did change from the original spec?
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by annywhey 9y ago
The trend is clear: Rendering engines are becoming compilers. At the dawn of real-time rendering everything was both bespoke and fixed-function. You would call a different optimized codepath to draw a floor, a wall, or a ceiling. If the pla
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by annywhey 9y ago
Contrary to how the article frames it, the play here is to starve Nvidia of oxygen by hitting their gaming business. Intel's biggest worry now is that they lose whole market segments to ARM-based systems with Nvidia GPUs. Nvidia has lo