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by chipsy 11y ago
I'm tempted to read it as "merely" 2 million given how bloated these projects tend to become. healthcare.gov is reported to be 500 million LOC, in comparison. I simply don't know how one writes that many lines, but it ha
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by chipsy 11y ago
When I actually looked up these terms I found no strong, exact agreement on meanings. However, of the definitions I did find, the ones referenced in the Clojure documentation seemed most reasonable - from memory, something like the differen
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by chipsy 11y ago
At each step, this abstraction of FizzBuzz may have "gone wrong" - parameterizing is only one way to abstract, and it adds a lot of symbolic content that may not lead to a solution. Sometimes you want the data to describe which co
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by chipsy 11y ago
Coke Zero has less caffeine - not zero, but the same amount as original Coke, while Diet Coke has almost 50% more.
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by chipsy 11y ago
Either go tit for tat or don't waste any more energy than necessary. I've mostly encountered situations where there's bad-faith negotiation, in which case I either walk or (if I'm in the advantageous position) actively m
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by chipsy 11y ago
The most likely way in which you can be impactful is just to be stubborn about your work. Slow and steady, trial and error type work is less easily explored and thus more bountiful if you can persist. Everyone uses their own particular stra
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by chipsy 11y ago
Dynamic has a nice exploratory quality. It pushes off the moment of reckoning, but sometimes you need that if you're sketching an idea in code. It was good for me when I first learned, and I think that's still true now. For "
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by chipsy 11y ago
The example I was going to provide [0] it turns out was reduced into a memory comparison. I wrote a little C program for you instead: [1] [0] https://github.com/triplefox/three-packer/blob/master/packer..
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by chipsy 11y ago
One simple branchless optimization form I've used is collision detection across an array of values: instead of testing each one, i add their value to a counter(perhaps with some mapping of data to collision value). After iterating over
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by chipsy 11y ago
Why does the logo critter have trapezoid feet?
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by chipsy 11y ago
It is as simple as agreeing to listen. The concept of safe space is reasonable within the assumption that there is a dominant culture that is free-speechified(variously politicized, highest bidder, protectionist, victimized). Within the col
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by chipsy 11y ago
I disagree with the exact statement but also agree with its sentiment. The functionality of a language should be applied for a specific engineering reason, and protection features are sensible at the right scale. But at no point does it rep
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by chipsy 11y ago
A nice standard reply. But how do you verify that your usage has the impact you think it does? When I started estimating the complexity of my code - just using rule of thumb and line counts - I found that most uses of classes were unjustifi
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by chipsy 12y ago
You're getting it backwards. Games are prominent because it's in their modus operandi. Their relationship with tech remains symbiotic only as long as they can act as a flashy demo. This is a thing that occurs only some of the time
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by chipsy 12y ago
The meaning is basically different. An enumerated value doesn't always carry around additional state, neither is it expected to carry around implementation information. Applying polymorphism often creates an nasty inversion. If the sit
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by chipsy 12y ago
For 2D stuff, Haxe/OpenFL has been quietly gaining a fanbase, including some successful higher-profile releases. Comfortable environment for former Flash devs since it builds on the same API. Some other FOSS options I've often see
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by chipsy 12y ago
Although it's probably not at all what that author meant, there is a way in which throughput and latency have a kind of fractally-layered relationship. For example, if you have a distributed computation that requires all parts to be fi
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by chipsy 12y ago
For what it was aiming to do, I think it makes a lot of sense, albeit it might be a little bit too factored for the data(e.g. passing in the whole world to functions called only once). You can kind of tell that this is more "proof of c
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by chipsy 12y ago
CGA's "Composite" mode contains output artifacts, a trait also found in other early microcomputer graphics like those of the Apple II or Atari 800; with careful use of dithering, CGA can be expanded to a larger effective gamu
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by chipsy 12y ago
sometimes I get the impression that a large portion of software developers act like consumers in their professional lives. Find shiny, try shiny, discard for new shiny. Doesn't matter if it's a personal gadget or something the com
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by chipsy 12y ago
The typical rebuttal is that a sufficiently smart AI will convince humans that it needs more connectivity to do its job better, and then subsequently bootstraps all the power it needs by taking over the world's devices. Fortunately, th
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New stb graphics library(youtube.com)
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by chipsy 12y ago
Monophonic(global) aftertouch is pretty common on controller keyboards these days - it's the polyphonic form that is sought after. And there's a chicken-egg problem w/r to its appearance in synthesis programming, since suppor
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by chipsy 12y ago
Re: malleability of life. I like stoicism because it captures the view that feels more realistic to me: That which you can control, you control to your utmost. That which you cannot control, you let go. Sorting it out and finding the balanc
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by chipsy 12y ago
I think it's crucial to the maintenance of our superstition that we don't know which parts of the system are actually important, and we keep misleading ourselves into the wrong assumption. For example - style considerations. Impor
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by chipsy 12y ago
One of the things I think that tends to underpin "overconsumption" arguments is the idea of consumerism as a cultural force: The idea that if you're leaving your home and going to public space, your business will involve, at
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by chipsy 12y ago
If we're talking about "which bottleneck is the biggest" memory size is traditionally the big one on consoles; there's a longstanding preference for a performance profile of small/fast memory, mid-tier CPU, and top-
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by chipsy 12y ago
You can't solve individual problems faster(unless they're familiar problems, which doesn't make you an "overall better" programmer, just better in that problem domain). Every programmer tends to fall within a certai
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by chipsy 12y ago
Do we know if it's related to the UV spectrum of the light(e.g. is this equivalent to sunlight's properties w/r to vitamin D), or is the eye exposure mostly about the visible spectrum?
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by chipsy 12y ago
When it comes to architecture, I've lately turned towards BCNF as my god. My premise is that if my data model - my internal application data, not just "the database" - is as in as normalized a form as I can reasonably get it

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