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Second for Real-Time Rendering. As far as I am aware, it's the closest thing to a foundational book on GPU programming for realtime 3D.
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I consider myself lucky that I haven't had to work with any pair programming tools in the last 15 years. I have, sadly, had to work with numerous waterfall, agile, scrum, and TDD tools. (I refer to their proponents.)
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I agree that 'inequality' is too simplistic a concept to adequately describe what the problem is in the US. I believe the real problem is more that the stresses a poor person must contend with to hold down even the smallest apartm
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Randians / Grahamians here always seem quick to echo that 'wealth isn't zero sum'. (I presume this is to help those who are or aspire to be wealthy feel awesome about their noble path.) Wealth may not be zero sum, but we
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Listening to music as I move through my day is sublime. I fucking hate the rest of you, so if people think I am merely detached, I come out way ahead.
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In my experience, it is very common for the recruiter and/or HR person to suggest what you should wear. If they don't, I would think it somewhat safer not to wear a suit to most tech interviews. (As much as I know y'all want
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I don't know. I think there's a variation of what he said that I'd agree with. Based on experience, my general opinion of medical doctors (good surgeons excepted) is pretty low. Like meteorologists, their heads may be filled
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I realize this is at least partly tongue-in-cheek, but at 36 I'm not really afraid of death. I am, however, rather terrified of aging further , since that's a thing that's happening right now. It's become very current i
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I hope that someday, saying garbage like this is considered the same as saying that women aren't as good at math as men, or black people aren't as hardworking as the chinese.
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I understand that he has schizophrenia, but they're people with thoughts and reasoning, too, though they may be more loosely aligned with the consensus style of cognition. For example, the statement he made makes perfect sense semantic
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Terry, why do you regularly use racially charged language? I understand your meaning fine, I'm just curious whether there's any specific reason you use racial language so much, or if it's just sort of one of your things.
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I think I would be literally incapable of saying those words in that way under any circumstances. I know that everybody is different. Things like this just make me really, really curious what it would be like to be inside the mind of someon
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I once cared about a job to the point of damaging my mental health. I haven't made that mistake since. I did, however, rather stupidly accomplish the same thing, years later, by caring too much about an entrepreneurial venture.
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I don't think either wealth disparity or unemployment are themselves direct problems. I think the huge and fundamental problem, which is a problem even in a so-called 'rich' country like the US, is access to the basics of hum
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People seem to get a premium on their perceived 'time' spent at MS for being earlier employees, which often correlates with how important a system they worked on.
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I'd say you're completely full of shit. Suicide is hard, and, contrary to the propaganda about it, takes a great deal more courage than, say, skydiving.
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But 'unlikely' is qualitative and not quantitative. As shown in the article, you can measure how unlikely an occurrence is with a number.
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No, the sense of the comment is completely wrong-headed with respect to probability. The probability that a sequence occurred is 1. The probability that the 10-10-10.... sequence mentioned has occurred is indeed as close to zero as the 76
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Cultural conquests were always the most satisfying to me in Civilization.
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Maybe I'm jaded by perennial Internet jargon, but I couldn't find any content in this article. Sample of many words written with nothing said: "People are starting new businesses made for the way customers want to consume te
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Are longer lifespans better by definition? I realize fully I'm in the minority on this, and y'all can feel free to live forever, for all I care, but I wish that my personal life expectancy was about 40 years shorter than it is. Th
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Inflation is very powerful. I always feel like people don't think about it in enough detail. For example, the year that your dollars were worth twice what they are now? That would be the long-ago time of ... 1988. Did you learn your ge
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That's the thing, though - I don't think that the HN "community" has been predominantly startup founders for several years. That's what used to make it so great. I think I would describe the prevailing demographic n
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Meta, but I cannot believe this excellently written post has already dropped from the front page, while some bullshit about "suhvuhbtle" and medium is still sitting in the top spots for hours. Like ever more hip ways for echo-ch
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And where in that conception of things is the relief for the bottom 50-60% of the population? The main audience for this type of drivel seems to be wannabe entrepreneurs who want to believe they're on that straight and narrow to fortun
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This (rather Randian) model of things is so contrived. Focus on the individual, their achievements, and personal wealth as untouchable property are half-truths, mythology, and contrivances. The economy is a collective thing. It's a net
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Then I retract my "not sensibly available" for "maybe sensibly available on your platform". But, it is still not the array size.
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I know that nobody in, e.g. London, is thinking about me. Nobody is talking about that. Among my boss, my coworkers, my family, my various caretakers, my dates, my fellow sportspeople, and my friends - if they're never thinking about m
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Because who cares? I think most people just have things they want to do with their device, they learn how to do those things, and that's it. What does being 'people-centric' actually do for me? Does it even save any clicks? H
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That's a lot of words just to be pedantic. What a heap allocator does in its bookkeeping is not necessarily "storing the length of the array" - and whatever it does isn't sensibly available to the running program. Yes, t

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