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by cgrealy 6y ago
Yep, which is why I was disappointed Steam Link never really gain traction. Since I grew up on FPS with kbm, I hate using a controller for them, so I'll happily sit at my desktop. But Steam Link lets me play controller based games on t
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by cgrealy 6y ago
I guess it depends on your customer model, but surely the keyword there is "begin"? It all depends on your customer/business model. If you're expecting to get to 1000s of clients quickly (i.e. within 12 months), then thi
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Non American here. The only time I ever hear about "states rights" is in relation to racism or misogyny. Are there actually valid useful reasons for the concept or is it time to ask what purpose they serve?
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Disturbing, but hardly surprising.
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by cgrealy 6y ago
That very much depends on the license. Many licenses include future updates. I am far more likely to pay for software that supports file formats in the future.
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Completely agree about interfaces. File formats should be supported though. At the very least, I should be able to import a file from the old version and have it converted.
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Look, I get that you want your article to have a respectable looking length, but please don’t make me wade through 3 paragraphs pointlessly recapping the history of software distribution from circuit boards. The internet. We get it. We’re o
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by cgrealy 6y ago
I did read that, and 40% is still a pretty low bar.
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by cgrealy 6y ago
My main issue with it is that the movie is over 30 years old and the argument in the movie is based on data from a conflict that began 55 years ago. Maybe I'm completely wrong (I'm not a pilot and have no military knowledge), but
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by cgrealy 6y ago
>>the argument about the death of the dogfight, or that there is no need for within visual range engagements anymore is a tired one. There was a pretty popular movie in the ‘80s about that very argument, so I am not going to rehash it
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Some years ago, Ars Technica ran a story on guns. https://arstechnica.com/science/2011/04/guns-in-the-home-lot... About halfway through a one-page article was this quote. "If you have read this far, ple
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by cgrealy 6y ago
> Most employees shared rooms to reduce cost. Nope. Not happening, and if I worked for a company that asked me to do that, I’d resign on the spot.
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by cgrealy 6y ago
A quick google says there are 1.5 billion pcs in the world (in 2015). I’m guessing they’re pretty much assuming most people who have a PC have played some form of game on it.
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by cgrealy 6y ago
That 3 billion people play some sort of games (particularly on mobile) is not at all surprising to me. I would guess that number correlates to “90% of people under a certain age (50??) who have access to a device”. That 1.5 billion play gam
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Fair point.
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Honestly, I really don’t care. It’s (at most) a 5 minute conversation between leads on a new repo. Either use this. or an _ prefix or whatever. Then set it as a global rule in .editorconfig (or whatever equivalent tool you’re using) and nev
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by cgrealy 6y ago
> One other advantage to the "this.Foo()" syntax is that this allows using the extension method "Foo", which otherwise could not be resolved by the compiler. I’d argue that calling an extension method of the class fro
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by cgrealy 6y ago
It’s been at least a decade since I read it, but isn’t there a whole chapter on using a mouse AND a keyboard to increase productivity? :D So yeah, some of it has dated, and some of it I disagree with, but it kills me that a lot of the lesso
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Consistency > prettiness
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by cgrealy 6y ago
It's your classic 5 whys, except in this case you can get to the root cause in probably 2 hops "I need a faster horse" "why?" "so I can travel faster" "why?" "so I can get to where I need t
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by cgrealy 6y ago
I don't have a problem with someone writing an article on whatever for whatever language. Go nuts. I just think saying "articles written in C++ are inaccessible" is kinda dumb.
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by cgrealy 6y ago
That’s a nonsense argument. For any given programming language, the number of people not using it outweighs the number of people using it by several orders of magnitude. It’s hard to get accurate numbers, but a quick google estimates ther
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by cgrealy 6y ago
> Even if you do write code, it is in C/C++ and not accessible to a wide group of people. Eh?? There are literally millions of C++ programmers and high quality C++ compilers are available on almost every platform for free. How is th
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by cgrealy 6y ago
This.... so much this. I remember working on a bug and writing tonnes of unit tests, a bunch of scripts and eventually implementing an entire e2e suite when it wasn't reproducable anywhere else. Change to actual shipped code: 5 chars.
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by cgrealy 6y ago
To that manager: that bug wasn’t the creation of a single developer. It went through code review. It had unit tests. A QA verified its initial implementation and a Product Owner signed off on the feature as done. If it wasn’t caught before
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by cgrealy 6y ago
A lot of professional musicians aren’t paid much, so it’s not really surprising that hobbyists (who can work at all ranges of pay) sometimes have better gear. My brother teaches guitar and he frequently sees people who’ve just started playi
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by cgrealy 6y ago
Do it. In NZ, we got rid of everything below $0.10 and pretty much no one cares. That said, a large portion of the country is cashless anyway. I almost never have cash on me.
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by cgrealy 6y ago
He doesn't really address the biggest issue I (and many of my colleagues) have faced with remote work. If you're head down on a coding task or writing a document or doing some piece of design... having your own space is amazing. I
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by cgrealy 6y ago
No, I’ve heard of them. When I was a kid, I actually had a General Lee windup car, before I knew anything about the history of the civil war. And then, I grew up. You can still drive a charger if you want. Now you just can’t paint a racist
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by cgrealy 6y ago
The difference is that your beater car skin doesn't remind an entire demographic of a time a whole bunch of people went to war so they could keep said demographic as property. If you want to be funny about the confederate flag, go do a

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