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by chipsy 12y ago
I think there's an element of "pendulum swinging" to how we ended up back at native. The browser is a technology that makes things easy, more than it is one that makes things possible. And "mobile" as a marketplace
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I treat software like gardening. Don't abstract until it's mature enough.
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Illegal immigrants in Western countries can easily be led into situations that may be described as "debt bondage" or "wage slavery." They do not have legal recourses, yet are afforded a place as a "hidden" work
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There's a very simplistic "in principle" reason to consider the blockchain. It can store information symmetrically - i.e. once you have access to it you have complete ability to search it and reuse the data, and it can't
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Bresenham lines are not "quality." For one, they're obviously jaggy. As well, most implementations of the algorithm will give you different results if you invert the start and end points. This matters a great deal for the com
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Maturity in the compiler != ecosystem maturity. To pick up the broader mainstream also means external tooling(ide, debugger, etc.), library code, documentation, examples and tutorials, live events like conferences and lectures, and "fr
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A lot of features in Nim show a similar kind of designed pragmatism. It's big, and has a lot of stuff that you just won't use in everyday situations, but the uncommon features tend to hit really specific engineering problems that
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Rust and Go have big backers behind them. This generates a feedback loop of hype leading to toy projects and thought leadership, which subsequently turns into real adoption. If weren't for that they would be maturing at about the same
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Combine more projects into the same codebase. With games this is easy - make a "multicart" game that has more than one game in the same program. Once that is done, you always have the whole portfolio of unfinished-yet-related thin
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IME it's usually the other way around about who's doing the mundane tasks. Occasional contributors are most motivated by getting in their one pet feature; it's the project leader who takes on the dull task of cultivating an e
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Every history sees through a limited historiographical lens and centers certain questions. If we set out to answer questions like "why did Britain industrialize first?" then a deterministic model of technological progress(the &quo
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This is also going to vary depending on the domain problem. If you're aiming to make something large and comprehensive, it helps to start "a bit too crude" so that every assumption you make at the start is grounded in the und
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You can typically predict performance behaviors across a whole language based on memory allocation patterns and the type system. If automatic memory management is built in, that adds some overhead to most allocation situations(and encourage
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W/R to language design, if you start designing without really caring about it, you probably won't finish. And that means that the designers of popular languages typically have unreasonable opinions. How that manifests itself depen
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Honestly, we need a programming language, any language, that is genuinely designed around the limitations of touch input while sticking to a textual style. I can find lots of interpreters for various languages on my phone, but all rely on s
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In some ways, I feel like all we tend to do with our higher-level abstractions is make macroassemblers out of them again. Tiny amount of algorithmic content, then massive amount of business logic. As models for business logic grow more comp
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The "Production" picture [0] is quite challenging for all encoders. The original has fine details like text that are smoothed out of existence even in the "Large" profiles - though to its credit BPG preserves more of it
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For people who have gotten far enough into it(and I would count myself among them) there is a "point of no return" where you're like any other devoted artist - you see designs that have not been made and that you have to make
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I looked at YaCy not too long ago. It's an interesting technology but needs an economic incentive to work as a Google replacement, I think. If system activity was (carefully and judiciously) tied to cryptocurrency payouts it'd pro
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It's in the CA DMV handbook that the roads are most dangerous in "first rain" conditions. You get tested on it!
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I'll contribute something I noticed, as a native English speaker, when I started defaulting to too-terse in my own style: Instead of spending time worrying about how to capture enough meaning in a concise name, I can write "km&quo
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The tricky thing about beliefs is that they are so often instrumental to authoritarian uses. Altermeyer's _The Authoritarians_[0] documents some of the mentalities that take hold - although it's primarily focused on the "righ
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I like using Fossil for my personal projects. I don't always use every feature, but it's all very small and self-contained and I can just copy the executable into the project root without having to worry about the system environme
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The computer is an automation tool. When you write code, it is serving the purpose of automating a specified and designed process. The things you write in the program to make the automation happen only have to be as complex as is actually n
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My earliest memory of Radio Shack(which is probably circa 1990, so even before the name change) is that I walked in accompanied by my mother and attempted to play the display miniature pinball game, and then was yelled at by the manager for
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I'm a bit late to comment, but I think this language is very promising for "batteries-included hacking," much like PHP or Basic. Just, it's not a woefully primitive or erroneous design like those languages. Wouter advert
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The phrase that always comes to mind when speaking of disability, and creativity in the midst of mental illness, is "better to be hated than pitied." There is something being said with TempleOS. We don't necessarily know what
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It wouldn't surprise me at all if the cost structure does work out but the complete picture can't be disclosed for competitive reasons. There are a lot of "obvious ideas" that have only come to fruition recently where th
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The capacity of mass transit modes is still worthwhile even in a fully automated universe, once you get dense enough. It's a simple calculation of space usage: If you fit more people in a vehicle, you use less road. Depending on mode a
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That's a separate issue (from platform control). Nintendo got off of the censorship train in the mid-1990's and haven't looked back, although their own work remains uniformly all-ages friendly with little exception. Edit: But

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