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by arohner 17y ago
Excellent news. The screenshots heavily imply to me that they've ported the HL2 engine (and HL2, portal, TF2, L4D) to OSX. I haven't had a windows machine at home for several years, because of that, I shifted most of my gaming to consoles.
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by arohner 17y ago
You're absolutely right, but as a developer, package management makes a significantly more pleasant experience. I also really hate how every OSX app has it's own way of doing updates. Even if the OSX makes desktop apps not need dependencies
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by arohner 17y ago
That's been a good description of Linux UI since OSX first appeared. Before that, it was an unholy bastardization of Windows.
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In Search of Lost Sounds (Why you've never really heard the "Moonlight" Sonata)(slate.com)
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by arohner 17y ago
IANA security expert, but stuff like this makes me believe it is never possible to secure native code. If you want a secure system, build a VM using a strict language like Haskell. Is that a fair statement?
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by arohner 17y ago
If you take the presentation literally, yes it was overblown. However, I think he made a few very insightful points: 1) Understanding psychological factors is extremely powerful, and probably even more important than good game design. i.e.
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by arohner 17y ago
Can anyone recommend an alternative?
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by arohner 17y ago
I had never the story that Arthur Anderson was prosecuted with trumped-up charges. Is the author's account accurate?
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by arohner 17y ago
My link empirically demonstrates that all 7(!) constructs behave differently, regardless of what foo.class says. I personally have been burned by the differences between them, so I'll continue to support people differentiating between them,
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by arohner 17y ago
"Aside from the errors in this sentence (blocks, procs and lambdas are all just Proc objects" No, they're different: http://innig.net/software/ruby/closures-in-ruby.rb
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by arohner 17y ago
There's more to Q&A than just the consumer internet. There's the things people find on Yahoo Answers today, and then there's everything people want answers for, whether Yahoo Answers has a category for it or not. The second is an order
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by arohner 17y ago
Exactly. Also, if you're a professional software developer, even your resume isn't a good description of what you are an expert on, so their one line description isn't adequate. If I say I'm an expert on "linux", that could mean linux kerne
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by arohner 17y ago
The Q&A wars haven't even started, and I say that as someone who runs a Q&A site. Yes, Yahoo has tons of traffic, but 1) they're already being overtaken by answers.com 2) SO identifies Software as being underserved by existing solut
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by arohner 17y ago
To be pedantic, scheme is garbage collected, and several use a VM. PLT already has weak references, and the author assumes the Scheme implementation already has them. As far as I can tell, this is somewhat like a weakHashMap, except each ep
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by arohner 17y ago
Google has a face-blurring algorithm. Amusingly, it catches things like faces on billboards and horses! http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/05/14/google-blurs-horse-...
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by arohner 17y ago
We had techniques where we try to minimize the "telegraphing" of our own punch. You practice that with a partner, and try to hit the partener's open hand before they can react to it. If the partner notices you moving first, they drop their
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by arohner 17y ago
The author doesn't test his hypothesis, by comparing the success rate of outsourcing to a low PDI country.
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by arohner 17y ago
How do I get in on that? I can't exactly call Google and say "hey, I'm willing to sell my pre-revenue startup for $FU_MONEY" (that offer is for real, btw, if any Googlers are reading :-) )
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by arohner 17y ago
The thing is, how would a 'verb' oriented language deal with a very specific kind of noun, one which both reacting to general verbs differently and required it's own special verbs. It seems like this special noun would 'smeared' around the
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by arohner 17y ago
And the most important statistic, success rate.
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by arohner 17y ago
I have the more generic version of this neuroticism. I see things in real life that use one data structure, and should be using another. This is clearly an example of using a stack, when he should be using a queue!
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by arohner 17y ago
Good idea. Maybe it would be helpful to have a Linked In HN group?
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by arohner 17y ago
I'm currently in that boat. It's tough. I've been at it 1.5 years, and I'm still optimistic. One thing that made things significantly better was moving from full-time to part-time on my day job. I did that about six months ago. It helped si
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by arohner 17y ago
Everything tbray says is correct, but I had the feeling I'd heard this before. Then I realized, this post is a combination of Gall's law "all working complex systems evolved from working simple systems", and Joel's advice of "never outsourc
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by arohner 17y ago
>The worst part? We'll have to wait until the introduction of Ford's second-gen SYNC system sometime next year. No, the worst part is the fact that you need to buy a new car to get a clean solution to wireless. I recently bought a car
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by arohner 17y ago
Does anyone have numbers on how much those 10 years cost, and how much they made on TF2? I got TF2 for free with the orange box, which I bought primarily for portal and HL2e2.
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by arohner 17y ago
I never thought it (one-off fixes and branching) was a good idea. It happened because one customer constitutes a large percentage of our revenue, and the business guys made the decision with little care about the effects it would have on th
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by arohner 17y ago
At the day job, we commonly see situations where the customer has a bug they need fixed, and they're not willing to wait for the next scheduled release. We give them a one-off release containing only that fix. What do you label it? If you l
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by arohner 17y ago
Yes. Additionally, this system dies horribly once you introduce branching. Versioning is another problem I want to introduce to the Test Case Wiki. The test case wiki is an idea I've had for a public wiki for hairy problems with numerous, p
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by arohner 17y ago
To a lot of entrepreneurs, especially Americans, "taxpayer funded" sends shivers. It implies bureaucracy, paperwork, lengthy approval times and political correctness. In many ways, it is the complete antithesis of the hacker-entrepreneur mi

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