buzzybee

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by buzzybee 10y ago
None of them! The ASCII file might be legible, but then it turns out that you don't have the correct build environment or all the dependencies, so the code isn't useful to you as-is.
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I've seen this kind of middleware come through several times. It's a hard sell because MMOs are already big productions and this stuff, while technically very challenging, only captures a single bullet point feature: "world
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Matrix is taking care of this problem in a big way. Check out https://riot.im/app
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Movies really are full of falsehoods big and small. Scenes showing car interiors usually involve matte effects so that they don't actually have to drive the car in natural light settings. Fight scenes are dance choreography with foley
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by buzzybee 10y ago
People who really get into the idea of maintaining a large personal information store generally seem to start fashioning technology that suits them, anything from paper, cards, and filing boxes to original software development. And the prob
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That indicates that you swallowed a piece of dogma at some point and didn't think it through. The argument of "the compiler can make faster code than any programmer's assembly code" - which I think is what you are repeat
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This has been proposed many times. Here is one plan from 1937 that would have been located where the Market Street BART tunnel is now: http://blog.sfgate.com/thebigevent/2015/07/10/35-years-befor...
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Programming is a practice that can be kind of deceptive in its valuation. To analogize to weightlifting, one of my favorite things to analogize against, you can see that someone lifted a lot, and you see that they did in fact lift it all by
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The path forward for games is roughly similar to where digital audio is now: Comprehensive workstation environments with an easing facade through plugins, presets, etc. The coarse elements of a rendering algorithm or a piece of game logic c
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by buzzybee 10y ago
There's a pretty definite threshold, perhaps somewhere in the early 10,000's of lines(depending on the language and how densely you wrote it), where the system becomes bigger than your headspace, and at that point, I think, the re
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by buzzybee 10y ago
When I mention Matrix, a lot of people seem to pigeonhole it as a chat system alone because Riot is such a dominating part of the application ecosystem. It would be really great to have more code and demonstrations available; adding Matrix
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by buzzybee 10y ago
This is the most plausible hypothesis I've heard since it's already been done with ice cream, and people actually enjoy and prefer the experience of it(despite the obvious downside of getting less Stuff).
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It's not even possible for a consumer connection to handle the firehose.
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That suggests that your original chaos was more "random" than "chaotic", as actually chaotic processes will go through indefinite periods of slack where they are apparently predictable. i.e. a better "chaos monkey&q
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by buzzybee 10y ago
No, because the bottleneck for most games is typically GPU performance, with a side of memory allocation. There is no magic dictating that every game needs deep instruction-level massaging, and many of the interesting bits that do need it c
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by buzzybee 10y ago
It used to be the case, circa the 1990's, that you only saw libraries and example code. Sometimes a "skeleton project". Anything beyond that was exceptional. Having lots of open code available online was a new idea. The thing
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Yesterday I got myself enthused for personalized intelligent agents, user-controlled systems that would be a generalized filtering and mediation point for communications. A concrete example is to take a user's Facebook feed and automat
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If you're really in the power game, it's assumed that you accumulate enough blackmail to destroy anyone who wants to harm you. And among other powermongers, that means the situation only appears stable because of mutually assured
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by buzzybee 10y ago
I've thought lately that the cosmopolitan outlook, which I do hold and generally enjoy, is also a rootless one. In accepting the ever-present change, respecting the multitude of outlooks, it often denies connecting with traditions in f
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Artists that work commercially design. You think Pixar isn't making designed products? Or Nintendo? Or every act on the Billboard charts? Yes, art made off the cuff does happen, and it's a great way to engage yourself creatively,
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by buzzybee 10y ago
This is a really good point and it shows how good collaborations need a "lead with strength" attitude and why rubberducking works - when you think the problem is not actually that hard and you can clearly describe it, then you can
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Yes, I definitely feel this is in the air. There's groundwork and momentum to iterate on large chunks of the computing stack, simplify and open up more of it again, and it could be driven in part by the needs of "pros" who ar
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Kids tend to be dishonest to themselves because they get caught up in playing a social role, and only gradually fall off of that track over time. So in a lot of ways it doesn't matter what you say or prompt them to say at that one mome
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Arenas trade some granularity and flexibility for speed and fragmentation-free allocation; they're a great choice for bulk data that you can precompute the size of and want to iterate over very quickly, and they're also easy to re
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by buzzybee 10y ago
So, one of the reasons why people like syntax standardization in the form of formats like s-expressions, JSON, XML, et al. is that the parsers are already there and you can just load them in, do some processing, and emit a transformed versi
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by buzzybee 10y ago
A lot of the changes I've made to my personal information architecture have to do with avoiding getting stuck on the things I don't need to worry about yet. I've tried to make personal wikis many times, for example, but the f
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Something this sim doesn't model that plays a large role in real accidents is the speed differentials during merges. If an offramp moves too slowly and gets fully congested, it starts spreading onto the highway, compounding the problem
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Whenever you hear about a very tight schedule, it's because someone has ended up with more appointments in their day than is reasonable; our capacities as humans are good for socializing for hours on end every day, and not so much at p
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The valuation is based on momentum and direction, with funny numbers applied to the assets and market share to reach such conclusions. The services they've offered as a startup can only be construed as a sample of whatever the massive
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From a user standpoint, when we speak of "cartridge" we're talking about the packaging - 8-track tapes were also called "cartridges". Calling any game cart "ROM" has been a little bit off in that old cartr

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