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by bendotc 17y ago
Just to be clear (for people who don't read the entire post), Silver goes on to say, "In case this isn't clear, I am not suggesting that any and all statistical analysis purporting to show tampering in Iran's election results will turn out
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by bendotc 17y ago
Eight dimensional hypersandwich making, obviously. No matter how you want the eight ingredients oriented, that sandwich will be cut in two nice, even halves.
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by bendotc 17y ago
One of the interesting things about this to me is how this argues for Stackless Python (and likely Erlang and others, though I'm not yet well enough versed in Erlang to say) as a way to think about problems, not just -- or even primarily --
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Rob Pike at Google: Concurrency/message passing in Newsqueak [video](video.google.com)
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by bendotc 17y ago
I disagree. They don't really go into why they made these decisions, but just "oh, our old model had weird sized differences between payouts of adjacent places." Why did it take them 6 years, a bunch of smart people, and hundreds or thousan
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by bendotc 17y ago
I prefer the SomethingAwful forum model: start out free, start charging a one-time $10 fee for new memberships, and then be liberal about banning people (who can pay another $10 to become unbanned). There are other premium options available
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by bendotc 17y ago
While I'm in no way an expert on this subject, there was a really interesting piece about this on This American Life, which you can listen to for free: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=3... . It's Act One, which
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by bendotc 17y ago
I presume you're asking about quitting your day job in order to become an indie game developer. As it is, making videogames is my day job, as it is with a number of other people who post here, but in my case, I'm currently not working for
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by bendotc 17y ago
Hi niels_olson, I wasn't homeschooled at all. I went to private school through high-school (around Charlottesville, VA, in case you're in that area) and then did public university. I went to school with some home schooled students. Some we
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by bendotc 17y ago
First, I don't think I would be delighted by an automated puzzle on HN. Second, the idea that puzzle-solving-ability is somehow closely related to interesting/insightful writing is specious. People are smart in different ways, and as a prog
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by bendotc 17y ago
A thousand times this! I know we all work hard here and HN and most of us don't have time to make everything (or sometimes anything) from scratch, but this takes next to no time to prepare and you can go from dough-sitting-in-the-fridge to
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by bendotc 18y ago
If you read much of what Guido writes, you'll see that most of his decisions come from a lot of thinking about a topic or problem and then going with what his gut tells him. It just seems to be the way he works, and I'd argue that the resul
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by bendotc 18y ago
As one of several game makers on HN, I want to take issue with the idea that "games are essentially just user interface." Games almost always present an interface to an underlying system. Many games have an underlying system that is not par
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by bendotc 18y ago
I accept Wikipedia's definition as a fine one and use Wikipedia specifically as something that represents a reasonably mainstream opinion on the matter. VM instructions vs. CPU instructions is not irrelevant when the VM can only execute i
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by bendotc 18y ago
That's a distinction without a (widely accepted) difference. Coroutines exist at the same time as one another (you could say they exist in parallel or concurrently), but they do not execute at the same time within a single process (1). I th
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by bendotc 18y ago
This ends up needing to be posted in every Stackless discussion: Stackless DOES NOTHING ABOUT THE GIL! Stackless is not about concurrency. It's about implementing coroutines. It's a really easy mistake to make. Lots of people think Stackles
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by bendotc 18y ago
Actually, I said I agreed to the post I was replying to, not to PG's post. Sorry you think it had zero value. For what it's worth, I never said nor meant to imply that I thought the website of the lady who wanted a job with Twitter isn't su
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by bendotc 18y ago
While I didn't find the twittershouldhireme lady very interesting, I don't know why you're complaining that you don't like my using it as an example, since I didn't. Was this reply was meant for another comment?
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by bendotc 18y ago
I'm in total agreement. In the effort to become boring, Hacker News just became more interesting than it has been in the last couple weeks (silly links to Erlang Shen aside). I come here for this sort of stuff, or for thoughts on business,
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by bendotc 18y ago
By looking over the "best" stories and "best comments", I find it interesting to note that very few of these are anywhere near what I'd consider to be the "best" of Hacker News. Of course, we shouldn't take high karma to mean "good" any mor
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by bendotc 18y ago
First: I think the influence of the word lazy on good programmers is to encourage them to be more efficient. I could be wrong, but that's how it feels to me. Although I think the author is right that copy/pasting the same function 40 times
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by bendotc 18y ago
I believe lots of theists believe in God without believing in the possibility of an empirical truth. I've certainly met Christian scientists (not to be confused with Christian Scientists) who fall into this category. It would be silly to c
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by bendotc 18y ago
"another cause outside yourself" is not exactly the definition of "God." To believe that you did not bring yourself into being does not mean you believe in God, it means you're not a solipsist. Also, would you please stop telling people wha
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by bendotc 18y ago
I don't know how many game developers are here on HN, but I know there are at least a couple of us. The short version of the requirements for an entry-level scripting position is that it varies widely from studio to studio, because what one
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by bendotc 18y ago
Python: "Ruby's int.to_f seems much nicer than a built-in function float(int)." >>> print float.__class__.__name___ type See, "float" is a type. float(int) is a constructor for a floating point number. It's not a
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by bendotc 18y ago
This is absolutely the best and most important advice you'll get. I was in that situation, I transferred, and it ended up working out swimmingly. And yes, it doesn't get any easier to meet excellent people out in the real world.
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by bendotc 18y ago
Okay, first, I just want to thank you for your excellent response. I'll admit, I don't think art must necessarily illustrate the human condition. I think good art often does, but it can also just be something that evokes an emotion. Of co
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by bendotc 18y ago
It's not an exaggeration at all. I didn't say Portal, Psychonauts, Killer 7 (which I'm ashamed to say I haven't played), or Shadow of the Colossus aren't interesting or innovative, although your inclusion of Zelda, Final Fantasies, and Hal
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by bendotc 18y ago
Then I guess you'll buy Bioshock. And you should, too. For those of us interested in videogames as an artistic medium, this is one of the most exciting games out there.