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by chipsy 13y ago
I'm not sure why this comment thread is so awful. It's as if veteran C++ devs are scared of Haskell or something. Lazy evaluation is a great boon for achieving a mix of performance and flexible coupling. In a lot of simpler, lower
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The jump algorithm I've used for a long time(and cribbed from an old co-worker) uses three variables, going to a second derivative: velocity, acceleration, and "power." The first two are pretty explanatory, the third is appli
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by chipsy 13y ago
Language enforces process by design. Many processes are potentially good but philosophically undesirable.
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We have a built environment that influences each moment-to-moment action: For example, architecture is full of little tricks that influence crowd routing without actively telling people "YOU THERE, go this way." UX is a whole fiel
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by chipsy 13y ago
Consider your whole life at a distance. It probably isn't "gaming is making me procrastinate" so much as "something about my existence is still unbalanced, and gaming lets me get away from it." It is a quiet, long-t
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by chipsy 13y ago
You say the article is bad advice and then proceed to give extremely nitpicky but ultimately similar advice: UDP is _this_ kind of optimization(latency) and not _that_ kind of optimization(throughput). Which is really attempting to strawman
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The premise of the article is that you should be able to have a dialogue with anyone. But this isn't the case; some people want a way to shut you out - not because they hate you, but because they're tired of seeing the same discus
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It's a very old impulse and not really limited to corporate group-think. "I'm gonna obfuscate my code and encrypt my data so nobody can STEAL my work!!!" said the programmer of previous decades, oftentimes experiencing a
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by chipsy 13y ago
Why would everyone on Twitter have imperial ambitions?
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My form of rebellion was to disengage and fail. I was a huge bundle of nerves about it every time, but secretly I wanted to have the experience of feeling the consequences and knowing what it actually _meant_ to screw up. I've remained
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Yesterday I was working with the built-in debugging and memory search tools in FCEUX to track down a memory location I wanted to script against(a game mode, for a Twitch Plays stream). There are some really great tools in emulators now that
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As an amateur doodler, I agree. I've done the "work through books of anatomy" thing, but at the end of it I still had deformed figures which mixed detailed, textbook-correct anatomy with gross problems in proportioning and al
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Twitch Plays Pokemon: How We Beat The Ledge(reddit.com)
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Telling myself I wouldn't "be a programmer" helped me learn to program competently. Counter-intuitive, but it meant I wasn't focused on following so many darn tutorials and APIs and frameworks and could just look at the
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Tablets ate them up, and quite comprehensively at that. You can get a new Win8 tablet in a similar spec and post-inflation price range to the old netbooks(Atom CPU, $250-350). Attach a keyboard to that and it's basically the same exper
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by chipsy 13y ago
w/r to the idea of being the guitar player, it's called "the flashy demo." If you really want to appeal to a crowd, there are some ways to do it with code. A large cross-section of "indie games" is based around
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by chipsy 13y ago
People were mostly baffled at the insane success of such a, quite frankly, stupid game. So you are saying that you don't like the game and it's undeserving of attention. So then, what game is? Is it the Call of Duty that you cla
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by chipsy 13y ago
From the article: A quick google image search of Jonathan Blow’s Braid can not only reveal that the indie darling also uses green pipes, but also uses analogues, very obvious references, to Mario’s enemies, mechanics, and story line. indi
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by chipsy 13y ago
I get it now. The distro ecosystem has been moving towards the other half of Sutherland's wheel of reincarnation - in this case, from modular systems towards monolithic ones. First it was stuff in the desktop space - now it's cree
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It's definitely alive, but my second-hand observation through seeing a friend attempt to use it for years, and even submitting numerous patches, is that it's in perpetual churn and still is only really usable for its lead maintain
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The site is totally hammered right now but I managed to grab a copy and get a feel for what's in this. There's some truly exciting stuff to comb through since it's a well-used engine with a lot of history, not someone's
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by chipsy 13y ago
Well, but you are now saying, "ignore the past 60-odd years of appropriation of the culture, and buy into this new appropriation! It's all different! We're marketing authenticity now!" This site's theme uses the gra
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I think it's because we associate kata specifically with _martial_ arts in Western usage. The meaning takes on a militant tone when that context is the starting point.
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by chipsy 13y ago
Why is a shared entertainment media experience important? It's not as real as your own lived story, and it rarely says anything of import about the world.
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D is being used on an "experimental" basis at Facebook: http://www.fastcolabs.com/3019948/more-about-d-language-and-... That said, you're right. Rust and Go both have momentum, and they've both had
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Significant whitespace is _also_ redundant, just along different metrics. Badly indented Python gets caught before execution the majority of the time, and in presentation, it surfaces to the programmer quickly. His argument is essentially a
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The thing that ultimately limits this strategy is people get far more excited about paying up-front for a "thing" that is play-oriented, whether it's marketed as a professional tool or a game. When you lead with monetization,
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Technically, you only need exactly one rail adjacent to a zone in the first game to make it grow, so the entire traffic model can be essentially ignored. Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEzzLXOs-iU
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I think this may be related to how it has proven difficult to be able to maintain a persistent, decentralized identity online. The centralized "make an account with us" approach lends itself towards monopoly centralization of ever
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I think it's a Goldilocks problem. There's an optimal average size for any group of related functions, but the skill of planning it is not in nailing it on the first try, but in determining whether the refactoring will benefit mor

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