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by chipsy 12y ago
At its core the problem game programmers run into is that game state is very globalized with a lot of dependency overlap. You can push around the data into different containers and declare dogmatic methods of access, but you always wind up
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by chipsy 12y ago
There are many creators out there who want to remain completely uncritical. They are happy they made something, and they don't need to be told that they're doing it wrong, because their goals were internal and self-set from the be
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by chipsy 12y ago
If you're looking for an appropriate timeframe, you have to put his whole career in games in context. The first game he's credited for is Wurm Online, which he worked on between 2003 and 2007. He was also employed by King at least
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by chipsy 12y ago
I think the key element here is that it describes a moment where the problem space opened up and original engineering became necessary. When this happens, programmers tend to swarm over the problem for a few years, doing a ton of invention,
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by chipsy 12y ago
PRT has a checkered image. Transit planners dislike PRT and its advocates for a number of reasons. The big one is that in principle, modality isn't key to providing mobility - you can get it from a car, a bus, or a rail system as long
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by chipsy 12y ago
I am increasingly critical of Wikipedia's project, and not just in terms of its observed gender balance. The standard of "objectivity by media citation" breaks down for many fields of study: For one example, there are many cr
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by chipsy 12y ago
There's still a huge place for rendering on the server, but the Wheel of Reincarnation has been turning towards browsers being a thick-client app platform for some time now. But the underlying stack is still really bad for it. The high
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by chipsy 12y ago
Exactly, I've posted similar remarks on HN: I keep little quotes and principles in my main "notes" file so that they reach my eyes frequently. I've also recently made the move to formalize my personal project data a litt
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by chipsy 12y ago
Some examples... The reverberation algorithms mentioned by TheOtherHobbes often bear no resemblance to the methods used for analog gear. The most commonly understood setup, in the first digital reverbs described by Manfred Schroeder [0], us
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by chipsy 12y ago
My kneejerk reaction was "oh my god don't dump a general-purpose language into the runtime just to write mission scripts," but this is actually a good example of how to do it: The DSL defines some data structures that the C++
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by chipsy 12y ago
Some in depth commentary/rants: Liz Ryerson: On Right-Wing Videogame Extremism http://ellaguro.blogspot.com/2014/08/on-right-wing-videogame... Elizabeth Sampat: The Truth about Zoe Quinn http://eli
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In sprawl, the city is bearing most of the risk: all the developer has to do is throw up some more cookie-cutter detached homes and sell them, while the city has to keep all of the grid infrastructure and services to those homes running for
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by chipsy 12y ago
For San Francisco/Peninsula DMV locations, the drive test is reasonably challenging and involves signal use, merging, making unprotected turns, backing, and complex intersections. I failed it twice with my parent's car and resumed
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by chipsy 12y ago
The Romans did have some interesting technology, but one of the things to notice about it is that the highlights are all "imperial" biased: Sturdy roads, aqueducts, buildings, and military equipment are basically the things you wa
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It runs very slowly for me, but the render quality is also very good for a road engine. I don't think I've seen one that shows such an enormous draw distance before.
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by chipsy 12y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/tq9fa/whats_t...
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A balanced lifestyle appropriate to your body and its natural tendencies. This can be "subtractive" (cut out something) as well as "additive". Not all time should be productive time; idleness helps bring out confidence i
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by chipsy 12y ago
Right now this kind of thing is generally a leadership-driven project. While it's easy to make a space if you have a venue, someone also has to stand up and say "This space is for this purpose and I am going to work on advertising
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by chipsy 12y ago
HSR is not simply graft, although it certainly could be implemented as such. Allow me to give some examples. When you deploy bigger planes you also need bigger infrastructure: The A380, for example, has had some delays due to new requiremen
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by chipsy 12y ago
There's something strange about this story. Apple could have turned "MacBasic" into a marginally different language and product and still shipped it, right? Why didn't that occur to them?
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I was expecting more of a focus on content of emails instead of design.
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My analysis of Ethereum: It's economically limited. Ignoring the implementation, we could conservatively say that some interesting web applications are convertible into the "Dapp" form. Right now, these applications are prese
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by chipsy 12y ago
Why not offer a specific criticism of how this program leverages Python, though?
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Compare with Binding Chaos[0], which rejects the Eisensteinian gift economy in favor of a "network-first" approach of stigmergic principles and epistemic communities(a wavelength similar to Telecomix[1]): [0] http://geo
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Yes, I point to how we accomplished networking. "Internet-scale" code is basically a lot of interacting systems of protocols. Protocol development seems like the "final step" in scaling a system.
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I disagree. Simple things are _necessarily_ dense in their implementation because they're so exacting. Recall Simple Made Easy[0]. [0] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
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I have to wonder if "breaking the wall" is correlated with being able to write more densely and create more functionality with less code.
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I'm hugely optimistic about the market for "proof-of-application" cryptocurrency since it's also the next step in "race to the bottom" - make use of the spare resources of all our commodity electronics and elim
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Although it's not new now, you should definitely try the Frog City Imperialism series(they're on GOG). Very taut, economic-oriented 4X games, they're turn based and spiritually precede the Paradox games in how they move away
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HSR is important as a structural guide for future urban development within CA. Besides linking the biggest cities together a little faster and cheaper than travel by plane(which would have trouble reaching projected capacity), it creates a

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