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by buzzybee 10y ago
When you get deep into these widespread public health issues you start to realize that there's always going to be at least one that you or your locale is at risk for. If it's not the water, it's the food. If it's not the
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by buzzybee 10y ago
I thought about this for a moment and then remembered something important. The big driver of our economy today is to add a layer of customization and modularity to existing processes via IT: Now you can get ala carte information, or summon
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by buzzybee 10y ago
The new documentary "Branching Paths" covers the independent part of the contemporary industry and the interactions between the older "doujin" model and the newer Western-inspired "indie" concept. [0] http:&#x
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by buzzybee 10y ago
It just means the Sutherland/Meyer Wheel of Reincarnation is in full effect.
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by buzzybee 10y ago
I think my main answer would be - seek to do really ordinary things well. There are thousands to choose from. You could be interested in dinner parties, or book bindings, or throwing darts. You don't have to seek power in the economic
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Orange chicken at Panda contains wheat, soy, egg, and dairy products. [0] These are all things that are commonly used in fast food to thicken up the taste. Wheat, soy and dairy also have a small element of physical addiction from opioids -
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by buzzybee 10y ago
The PC market contains a more comprehensive picture. There are plenty of "bad" yet profitable F2P PC MMOs. There are also plenty of respected premium games on Steam. F2P dominates the mass markets, but premium still captures the a
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by buzzybee 10y ago
The top level decision maker in this instance stops at The Pokemon Company. Although Nintendo is one of the investors and can influence decisions as a stakeholder, the line of command does not proceed directly upwards to Nintendo management
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by buzzybee 10y ago
We totally do get to say that in this case. This game inherits issues that have been present in Ingress for years. Years! Ingress gets away with it most of the time because it's not operating in a worst-case scenario where the backend
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by buzzybee 10y ago
My phone's calendar app has become crucial to me. Recurring tasks - work cycles, fitness, etc. - get a recurring block, with a well-defined start and end time. Non-programmed to-dos("remember to bring a..." "don't f
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by buzzybee 10y ago
I had approximately a month between when I wrote it and reread it. While it was serviceable in short-term memory, comprehension suffered noticeably in the long term with four-letter or less names. At the time I did this I was pursuing Arthu
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by buzzybee 10y ago
I self-tested variable name lengths on my own code. Three letters is enough to avoid most collisions. Words do not make sense yet. At four letters most words become decipherable given an appropriate encoding. At five letters a two word phra
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by buzzybee 10y ago
IME the interview you have depends a lot on org size and how close the interviewer is to the money. A technical founder will tend to interview with an eye towards product and marketing and sitting down in a real environment to do sample cod
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Another way to state the problem is "you have to do it badly before you do it well". Not strictly true in every case, but software is in a broken state for most of its development and then suddenly works at the end, which is reall
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by buzzybee 10y ago
The difference is substantial: There are books describing some standard practices now, third-party engines will at least include some basic networking functionality, and every worthwhile book on engines will at least mention what you need t
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Our minds bias towards telling ourselves that we're okay, most of the time, and we rationalize constantly in order to get through the day, imposing our storytelling techniques on capricious events. That means that we behave "good&
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by buzzybee 12y ago
My last phone was my first smartphone. It cost $80 and ran Android 4.0 very poorly with pauses and crashes. My current one runs Android 4.1 and cost $60. It runs smoothly enough that I have no pressing reason to upgrade in the near future;
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by buzzybee 12y ago
When I've taken this thought to its extreme, Chuck Moore's ideology around Forth makes total sense: If a problem is only going to be solved in a complex, Byzantine fashion, it's the wrong problem. Walk away from it. Solve a d
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by buzzybee 12y ago
The furnishings of pretty much any 80's era programmer I got to observe seemed to include binders full of notes, code listings(and less often, program output) printed out and marked up, Post-its, and boxes of tapes or diskettes. A pock
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by buzzybee 12y ago
My bad social habit which I am working on correcting is in imposing a thought on someone's personal life a bit too eagerly, which for me usually begins with the phrases, "so then it's like..." or "you should...&quot
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by buzzybee 12y ago
Oh, it definitely happens. It's easier to spot on low-traffic subs because a single topic that matches the right keywords will suddenly blow up with both a spike in upvotes and dozens or hundreds of heavily opinionated comments. Here i
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by buzzybee 12y ago
Power describes the abilities and consequences of speech - e.g. the government official saying no surveillance was done; the ethnic minority painted as a "dangerous thug" by the news media. Free speech laws exist so that a powerfu
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by buzzybee 13y ago
I also favor extreme transparency for government activities. Ramp down secrecy everywhere, publish more activities online as they happen. I don't expect something as utopian as "all our military intelligence is now public", b
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by buzzybee 13y ago
Related: Told mother about a friend the other day. "Where does she work?" she asked. "Uh," I explained, "most of her income at the moment is in Patreon donations." Then I had to explain Patreon. "And then
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by buzzybee 13y ago
The most challenging aspect of inheritance modelling is to recognize it on its intrinsics - the deliberate creation of coupled properties and behaviors associated with the "isa" declaration - and not simply as a form of taxonomy.
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by buzzybee 13y ago
I want to see fewer markets. Markets create complex work for people.
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Binding Chaos: Systems of Mass Collaboration(georgiebc.files.wordpress.com)
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