anthonyb

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by anthonyb 15y ago
You're making a lot of assumptions about what I am and am not saying. Check my profile if you want to see how I think Python should be introduced (hint: by doing actual stuff). TL;DR: Beyond the very basics, PHP is only going to frustrate b
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Yep, he doesn't seem to have any idea of how a breadboard works. In fact, he's got it completely backwards (LEDs on the power rails and power rails in the component rows). It probably won't blow the ports with the resistors there, but it de
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by anthonyb 15y ago
I see your point, but it's the same point that every other pro-PHP person has made. PHP lets you get stuff done fast... but in a few weeks (or even days depending on the person) Python and Ruby will have overtaken you, because all of the tu
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by anthonyb 15y ago
And that's not counting all of the messes that are inflicted on you as a user of PHP - security holes and password breaches or having to interface with some crappy API to get stuff done. At least with PHP it's likely to be some vaguely HTTP
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by anthonyb 15y ago
I tried that once, but found it a bit too distracting -- too much overenthusiastic DJ voice over in it to really get into the zone while programming.
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by anthonyb 15y ago
PHP doesn't really have any strengths any more. The last one was ease of use and setup, but nginx and FastCGI seem to have beaten that too. The only things keeping it around as far as I can see are: * the huge lock-in with existing code + k
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by anthonyb 15y ago
People hate PHP because it's an incredibly stupid and frustrating language to use, and most of the people who use it don't know anything else. The money comes from them fucking things up, and their boss having to call in people who know wha
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Why would you do that? You're going to have to have a branch to deal with the -1 further down in your code anyway. Why not just deal with it when it happens: if value not in list: # value not found return index = list.inde
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by anthonyb 15y ago
> if you take time to write a long article about PHP deficiencies while refusing to take 10 seconds to look up a thing in the docs - it doesn't look good. When did the original article ever suggest that? I got the impression that he had
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by anthonyb 15y ago
You realise that there are tools to get around the problems that you describe? Linters and automated testing will both catch the sorts of problems that you're having.
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5. Oh fuck, I've been hacked!
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by anthonyb 15y ago
PHP sites will have a hell of a lot more of them, though. You're not shielded against CSRF, XSS or SQL injection attacks unless you use a framework - at which point you're back to being a programmer with no "empowered amateur" in sight...
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Wat? This is the same CEO who publically bagged one of his employees on Twitter: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-04/02/draw-somethin... Obviously reputation means squat, since nobody seems to remember these things past the curren
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by anthonyb 15y ago
http://kittenwar.com/
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by anthonyb 15y ago
That's really just wallhacking and aimbotting - not really an AI as such. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a human doing the pathfinding with a 'shoot them in the head' button. If your FPS allows you to shoot with pixel perfect precisio
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by anthonyb 15y ago
You could make the client run other player's CPUs, perhaps ones from accounts on a different server. If it's not someone you know or are playing with, then there's less incentive to cheat. You could even pass the same work to multiple clien
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Boring, but addictive. Without the brain-hook of watching your stats go up, would you still be that interested in playing Diablo? Just think of all of the other types of games that might be made instead of the umpteenth iteration of UO/Ever
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by anthonyb 15y ago
> Now, there's the reality which is that the only time you have bots on a large scale in a multiplayer game is when there's something to be gained by their use. ...and the game is too tedious to play. Isn't that a sign of a problem with
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by anthonyb 15y ago
It's not especially broad, and you can apply the same line of thinking to other games like Starcraft. APS uber alles and all that... FPSes are somewhat different, but they tend not to have bot problems because FPSes are fun to play, and don
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Most of the games which end up fighting tooth-and-nail trench warfare against bots are just boring games. I don't think expressing that opinion is arrogance, per se. Take games like minecraft or first person shooters like TF2, for example -
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Then the game is too simple. Rather than hunt down bots, they should make a more interesting game. The bots are a symptom , not a problem in themselves.
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My personal take on this is that if your game is going to suffer because of bots (assuming that they're not cheating bots, and are bound by the same rules as the players) then your game is broken and/or stupid, and the choices that your pla
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aimbots and wallhacks aren't AI though - they're cheats.
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Using the array module for registers and memory might be even better - you're not likely to want to randomly add a register or memory bank.
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by anthonyb 15y ago
You might be interested in py4fun - it has a fairly light weight introduction to a "mythical machine", including assembler and compiler: http://openbookproject.net/py4fun/
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by anthonyb 15y ago
That Cell class looks a bit odd, and I can't imagine it's doing good things for your memory use. Perhaps you could simplify it by making your registers a list or a dictionary, rather than a tuple? ie. self.registers = { 'A': 0x0000, ...
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by anthonyb 15y ago
That would be incredibly slow if you wanted to run more than a handful of CPUs...
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He's released the spec for the 16-bit CPU used in the game: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/20056289891/start-classified-tr...
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by anthonyb 15y ago
If your business/startup is still around in 2 years, you can probably afford a redesign for IE.
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Bear in mind that a lot of grains and beans are fairly toxic in themselves - plants don't want you to eat their seeds. So whole grain might actually be just as bad for you as the refined stuff, just in different ways. Gluten is one aspect o

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