anthonyb

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by anthonyb 15y ago
I'm not sure where you got that impression from. Did you follow through to the original article? http://www.criticalmiss.com/issue10/CampaignRealMonopoly1.ht... There's plenty of imperfect information - I don't think you're required to re
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by anthonyb 15y ago
I suspect that you're playing it wrong, or with the wrong people -- particularly if it's taking you hours to play. Typically, there'll only be one or two really good spots (say, 8-10-5 or something). The players on those spots will/should g
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by anthonyb 15y ago
The idea's coming from the right place, but it looks like a serious troll magnet to me...
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Even short term profit is likely to be put at risk. I've found that the places which are weaselly enough to screw you long term will normally screw you in little bits and pieces first. After you've been through the cycle a few times, you ge
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Here's Valve's (well, Gabe Newell's) take on it - 'Crunch Mode', about halfway down: http://www.develop-online.net/features/1184/The-Valve-manife... (Though they unfortunately seem to have hotlinked the images, which are all broken :P )
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by anthonyb 15y ago
And the next game that you want to produce? Now you have to find another team of developers, from a smaller pool (since word gets around). Seems incredibly short sighted to me - why throw away all the effort of staffing, training and tools?
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by anthonyb 15y ago
That's even assuming that there's a gay gene and it's not also affecting something else (eg. the Russian tame foxes which started to look a lot like sheepdogs, despite only being bred for tameness)
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by anthonyb 15y ago
From experience, I'd definitely second the 'actual project' part, particularly around breaking it down/picking the right level of project. Ideally you want something that you can pull off in a day or two, then apply what you've learned to t
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Applicant-submitted code samples don't correlate strongly with hiring decisions, in my experience. They're too easy to fake, and don't capture the things you want to know about interpersonal communication, thinking style, etc. Yes, by the
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Isn't this sort of thing already happening, and has been for a while? Here's the one in my city: http://www.melbournewireless.org.au/
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Unless, of course, they stole it from someone else.
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by anthonyb 15y ago
It's a model that I followed when I wrote Hello Python. The theory being that the way that most of the good programmers that I know learned was by extending their knowledge, not by inhaling massive chunks of information. I'm now reading K&#
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by anthonyb 15y ago
He's a friend of mine here in Melbourne, and currently working as a pentester for banks and other organisations. Believe me, he knows all of the things that the bad guys get up to.
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Ok, I see that now, and it fits with what I know - if your blood glucose is saturated, then any extra fat and sugar you eat goes straight to your arse. Interesting that whole milk dropped off so sharply in the 1970s and 80s - about the time
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Yep, I just got that from Amazon a few days ago. I'm a Python/Web programmer in my day job, but I'm looking to get more into the low level stuff. I recently got a Nerdkit too - lots of fun :)
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Your report just has "Carbs" - nothing to do with what sort they were. That could be flour, sugar, or potatoes, and they stay relatively constant, there's no decline (p18). There's a big increase in the amount of fat consumed, but I suspect
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Pro tip: be funny :)
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by anthonyb 16y ago
If you're looking for a senior developer with 5-10 years experience in a language it's a useful gauge of experience and whether they think about the language that they work in , particularly if it's something that might bite you. eg. What d
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by anthonyb 16y ago
The other trick, since I've just been on the interview circuit and used this one a bit: use previous companies brain teasers/language puzzles (eg. worst feature or wart of language X) against the current one. If they don't do any language p
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by anthonyb 16y ago
One of my favorites: "What was the last unit test you wrote, and what did it test and why?" If you just ask a question about whether they do unit testing, you'll get a suitably vague and chirpy response, but specifics will normally get you
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by anthonyb 16y ago
Agreed, but you should at least try out the non-traditional route before dismissing it, especially since he's already got a blog and decent search traffic. eg. No, no downloads here - just a 4.95 javascript e-book with a couple chapters for
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by anthonyb 16y ago
No, wrong way around - long url is editable, short one is read only.
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by anthonyb 16y ago
What about two parts? http://codr.cc/s/xyz/abc as the editing url, and http://codr.cc/s/xyz as the read only? That way you need to know abc to edit, but can pass xyz around.
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by anthonyb 16y ago
This is exactly what I do when writing complex code, and is about the only reason that I can think of to comment out code like this. The other time that I might do it is when I'm trying a couple of implementations to see which one is better
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by anthonyb 16y ago
I wouldn't really count that as a brute force attack. That just comes with having an SSH server on the internet.
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by anthonyb 16y ago
No, goddamnit! The search space of possible passwords is the metric that matters. This is why people should not be rolling their own password schemes. 27 possible chars * 16 length gives 27^16 combinations, or about 8.0 * 10^22 combinations
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by anthonyb 16y ago
Yeah - normally crappy hand rolled PHP ones.
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by anthonyb 16y ago
Not just that, but he didn't appear to switch DEBUG off: https://github.com/Swizec/random-coding/blob/master/serverbe...
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by anthonyb 16y ago
Depends on the game, how seriously you take it and how seriously the other players take it. Some of the play by email games that I've played in run for more than 12 months (with weekly turns), and the negotiations over borders, terms and co
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by anthonyb 16y ago
Might be a bit off the wall, but playing strategy games has helped my negotiation skills fairly substantially. Anything where you sit down and hammer out alliances/agreements with other players, so Diplomacy (both face-to-face and online),

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