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by chipsy 12y ago
This is how much I feel empathy: When I played Civilization as a kid I felt so terrible when the AI players begged for mercy, I would try to keep them around rather than have to conquer them entirely.
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I experience something similar. Besides having high scores on those online "EQ" quizzes, it's astoundingly easy for me to be liked if I make the effort to "turn it on," to the point where I feel completely undeservi
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by chipsy 12y ago
The 101 projectiles case is not such a useful what-if in practice. It's a game, so your final tuning comes down to "what will hit my framerate target and memory budget," not what a user requested. If it struggles to keep up w
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by chipsy 12y ago
Sounds very competitive, achiever-focused. Do all organizations want programmers who are viciously determined to win? Does that lead to society-efficient solutions? (To elaborate a little, Richard Bartle noticed four types of players of MUD
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in some ways the article was right at the time. The first Windows was pretty bad, and so was the second. Whether windows, tiles, or single screen is better still comes up, but we've all come to expect multitasking.
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It's frankly amazing that Win ME managed to be so much less stable than previous iterations of Win 9x. I dealt with it for a year or so in college before I was able to get my hands on something better, and it was basically a "run
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Simply put: You're shopping, not creating. I went through a phase like this, too. It also had some relation to being stressed, or not socializing enough, in my case. The healthy thing you want to be doing is practicing. Ground the big
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I would go with the sort of answer that dodges anything concrete: It's not about which specific things you do, it's about doing things that seem scary and unfamiliar. For some people, that means learning to write really tight low-
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There is also an nascent energy transition towards renewables now.
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If the "fun part" of learning or working on a project is analogous to the climbing of a mountain, you have to acknowledge that there are parts of learning and working that have natural plateaus - you wander in them for a long time
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Everybody was embarrassed about that day. It was a lot of toxicity over an issue that had already been resolved in technical terms, and dragged on for hours, but Andreas was mostly gracious throughout. I give him a lot of credit for being w
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I remember this post because it outlined the limitations of informal, privately operated systems: They tend to have physically centralized hubs that are overserved, because the operators can guarantee customers at those stops, while outlyin
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The canonical example is how it's done in Forth: Ask for a number and it's already on the stack. Ask for three numbers and you push onto the stack three times. Upside: Terse code. Downside: Stack juggling can be a big maintenance
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I definitely get the sense that industry has only accelerated its churn rate over time. Just looking at what's happening to Javascript in the past year or two gives me butterflies in my stomach: There is attractive stuff and necessary
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If I had to place a bet now, it would be on asm.js. It's the abstraction that nobody wants but everyone can live with, because it takes the standards bodies out of the equation on the higher level decisions that have to be done differe
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I think the argument for using libraries is almost always one of solving for "adequate" performance, not best-case. If you want a library you can actually reuse, you're designing it so that it will work in many situations, an
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A really big error I've made around "discipline" w/r to software, is thinking that it means locking in all of your time so that you can crunch. It's the first two to four hours of effort, and the first 50% of your d
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When I find myself getting addicted to a game now, I look for a way to cheat and rapidly progress to the end. The illusion dispelled, I only have to waste one hour of my life. Bonus: reverse engineering skills. Edit: But also, I never bothe
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by chipsy 12y ago
Your HN profile says you are in the Bay Area. If Oakland is within reach, we run a free coworking session every Tuesday afternoon. It is primarily social in nature(with occasional "everybody is busy" days). [0] More generally, I t
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I'm also one to sing the praises of emu developers, especially the ones who continue to push for accuracy even when all the games "seem to work." It's a truly challenging task to reverse it, recreate it to run speedily,
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by chipsy 12y ago
To paraphrase from around 19:10 of [0] - readings of games throughout the ages have flip flopped between two moralistic binaries; between a wholesome pastime for young children, and a depraved and immoral one suited for soldiers, gamblers,
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by chipsy 12y ago
Business is built on a lot of fragile things. Your business consists of your mutual obligations: What others are obliged to do for you, and what you are obliged to do for them. To that end, of course, the "speed run" strategy for
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I agree. As a beginner - and even as a professional, in an average-case situation - what you need in terms of abstractive power and optimization potential tends to be something akin to a classic microcomputer Basic, plus some modern API cal
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From personal experience, many people will treat conversation as a business event where sharing of facts is paramount. Certainly around my parents and their family, the tendency to railroad towards references, prepared stories and newspaper
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Cost makes all the difference. In the 1980's, a long-distance phone call was still a big expense. Being in a big city like New York gave you substantially more access to information than being in the rural USA. Knowledge of skills and
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If you're saying it's flawed, you should defend that stance with an actual critique instead of a pejorative-laden dismissal.
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I'm among those who have enjoyed the satisfaction of making my own Forth-like, and I've even used it only to find the same kinds of difficulties as author. Aiming for less is always a valid approach, but it's hard to reconcil
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Like with everything, it depends. The way you use time is key to pretty much everything. The right hurdles to go for, for learning, are always the ones where you are outside of your comfort zone and you have to struggle for some number of h
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Reframe to the analogy of biology. Are living organisms simple? Did they scale? Will they continue to scale? On the one hand, we can look at the amount of stuff that's going on at the cellular level and say "no, life is very compl
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The only thing is, the content team was building to a budget from the start. So they would have, for example, just planned to use smaller textures if the early memory budget pinched them. Now, whether or not you actively hide a budget paddi

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