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by arakyd 18y ago
This might be the first full featured in-game browser, but EVE Online has had an in-game browser that supported most HTML and CSS (but not Javascript or plugins) for years.
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by arakyd 18y ago
If "begin with code and end with crap" is the first way and "think it through and code once" is the second way, I prefer the third way: http://www.ultratechnology.com/method.htm
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by arakyd 18y ago
The title for this advertisement for Mathematica would be more accurate, and much less surprising, if it were "Floating Point Arithmetic Is Hard—To Get Right."
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by arakyd 18y ago
Is anyone interested in Alan's point? He knows that computer science is a math. Computer science is to computer engineering (including programming) as theoretical physics is to experimental physics. The problem is that computer scientists h
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by arakyd 18y ago
Frameworks are not equivalent to abstractions. Frameworks are prepackaged abstractions - that is, a proper subset of all abstractions. If you can make better abstractions than those used by a framework, you might advocate not using that fra
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by arakyd 18y ago
You would also be naive to buy a book from a guy who gives you an explanation for something and conveniently neglects to mention, or perhaps doesn't even realize, that his explanation only accounts for 5% of the variance. A guy who tells yo
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by arakyd 18y ago
Based on that description it doesn't sound like he's looking carefully at people who weren't successful: "There is a silly book called A Millionaire Next Door, and one of the authors wrote an even sillier book called The Millionaire's Mind.