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by b0rsuk 6y ago
He claims you have to be unconventional to be successful in pursuits which reward independent thinking. He named at least one profession where being conventional is desirable: an administrator.
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
Say Hellooo to survivorship bias, then!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias You're throwing half of the information away. You need to know not just what to do, but also what not to do. Losers can teac
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
I can't help to see the analogy with muscle building. Train to gain mass first, then add more repetitions to make those muscles effective.
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
You're talking to someone who owns a threadripper, what did you expect?
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
It's a common idea that evolution propagates useful mutations, and the non-useful disappear. How does it help a bird to have four sexes? Or maybe it's just irrelevant for birds. Birds appear to break many laws of nature other anim
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
How does it make Linux compare to Windows, OSX and *BSD?
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
Exactly what I thought. He's thinking about the internet of the old. People have different expectations today. They expect reposts, shares, comments etc. He'd need a Frontpage that can trivially build servers and services. You can
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
Are you using meme language? If yes, be aware it makes your point harder to understand. I'm wondering if you've made a grammatical error, are not good at English, or something else.
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
I don't want to start a flame war, but what are some of the programming languages that attract the first variety of people?
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I guess either wealthy collectors, or creationist fanatics.
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Ultimately what I'm saying is that computer games are wasting an opportunity to be good what they do best: interaction and simulation. No one condemns basketball, soccer or chess for having poor story. They are however good at generati
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
But most games nowadays actively avoid that! They make you control Geralt or Solid Snake or Master Chief or whatever. You know, someone cooler than you could ever possibly be. They introduce third person cutscenes if the game isn't alr
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
I'm shamelessly pasting a wikipedia quote because it puts it better and more succinctly than I could. "Non-games are a class of software on the border between video games and toys. The original term "non-game game" was c
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
Best games don't tell stories - they generate them. There's no need to make games more like movies or graphic novels because we already have movies and graphic novels.
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
If you like bonkers comics, you should check out Krazy Kat. The main characters are a police dog, a mouse that is a very accurate brick thrower, and a cat of indeterminate sexuality which sees the bricks as a sign of affection. The cat is n
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
The cyberpunk stealth/tactics game Invisible, Inc. describes executive terminals as large devices with simplified buttons. Or something along these lines.
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
I once read a book about beliefs of North American indians. It said Cheyennes divide birds into three groups: common, great and sacred. They count magpies into the sacred group! They like magpies because they're sociable, live close to
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
It's really a shame so few people recognize him. You don't count unless you sit on a large pile of money.
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
Even though I live in the fifth most round country in the world, I immediately guessed it was about skin color. I think lack of tipping and prejudice often come together. I observe the same thing here. Waiters with eastern accent get rude t
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
Sounds like you just want a unicorn.
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
Have you tried a FAQ?
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
Sure, some do. I can't speak for them. What annoys me personally is that sometimes they seem to praise very arbitrary stylistic choices as objectively superior. I think front-end developers are more prone to fashions than other kinds o
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
This looks only marginally worse than Wolfenstein 3D. Animation is very fluid. In some ways better because enemies are more varied. Where does Wolf 3D popularity come from, then? Was it notorious because some newspaper wrote about it? Was i
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
I'm fine with people having aesthetic choices. I find front-end developers and their fashions mildly annoying. I think this post would fit very well at /r/unixporn, similar to ASCII art, pixellated graphics or low poly models
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
I don't see ligatures solving any important problem. If you think they do, I'd rather change syntax highlighting to recognize !== and others as a single token . It's like multi-select in text editors. When you think about it
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
Bad documentation SUCKS. My experience with open source software is that the projects that are most successful are those with great documentation. Documentation greatly lowers the barrier to using a tool and makes people spend less time g
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
The problem with your comment is that it's responding to something I didn't say. When there's a mess in a warehouse, it slows the work down and causes mistakes. Somehow people understand that an orderly warehouse means you ne
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> I think we probably overestimate how important code is. Or maybe the cost of swamp code is distributed over many people and non-programmers have difficulty understanding how much it slows down programmers. Programming is hard enough as
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Obviously I'm not going to name my past employers or even hint by saying what industry it was. But people are skilled in presenting the next software trend as a cure-all. Agile, micro-services etc can be used as just distractions to av
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
You're spinning a false dichotomy and frankly I don't need to respond to that. There's a spectrum between "code is not touched unless there's a new feature/bugfix ticket" and "code needs to be perfect

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