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by chipsy 13y ago
Create external-facing events(meetups, hackathons, etc.) that advertise the culture you want to build, then recruit through them. This will also give you experience in thinking about the overall work environment. I firmly believe that the &
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by chipsy 13y ago
The biggest benefit of a purely functional data structure for performance is the same as functional programming in general - they capture the problem in a way that is easier for a compiler to reason about and rewrite to hardware-optimized f
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by chipsy 13y ago
I only have starting problems. Right now my starting problem is the laundry. I abandon a lot of stuff, but only because I've built enough of it to see the flaws. I don't see that as a problem. It looks like a problem if you predic
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by chipsy 13y ago
If you're familiar with front-end web coding, it's comparable to manipulating the properties of DOM objects vs. assigning an innerHTML string. Building a string is crude but sometimes effective - but when you want to really engine
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by chipsy 13y ago
When I learned of the difficulty mapping between code points and characters, I realized that Unicode is a standard nobody will ever (knowingly) implement correctly. Even if everyone has access to a font API, there'll probably be bugs i
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by chipsy 13y ago
When Jason Rohrer says something, it's invariably couched in zero-sum sacrificial thinking. The principle is embedded deep in his games, as well as his lifestyle, and by inverting that viewpoint it's easy to find flaws in his argu
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by chipsy 13y ago
I had this same illness (in SF). Last week around this time I was feverish, sore, and mostly incapacitated, but it broke relatively quickly for me - within two days. I didn't do anything more than my usual to treat it(keep up the vitam
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by chipsy 13y ago
Essentially everyone trying to offer services that "improve" Bitcoin is putting themselves in the game to monopolize it. The good old Microsoft "embrace, extend, extinguish" applies just as well to it as to any other tec
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by chipsy 13y ago
What came to mind personally was overuse of rebasing to turn a commit log into something artificially pristine at merge time. People do want some minimum of commit hygiene so that the repo avoids being a mystery vortex. But because distribu
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by chipsy 13y ago
The article is advocating an incomplete picture. If we see this as a cyclical struggle between state-backed and private currencies, then what will actually happen is a competition between the two. The state will prefer using force to squash
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by chipsy 13y ago
It's awfully hard to discern a point in this rambling comment. But I'm not sure what the commenter expects. They and other HN commenters constantly complain about "liberal arts students against the 1%", but they're
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by chipsy 13y ago
What I think is important about cryptographic assets isn't exactly in the economic properties they have now, but in the potential for reforming governance. That is, if people are successfully using a crypto asset for their business, AN
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by chipsy 13y ago
I think Bitcoin does have a soft floor because that cost would form the natural price target for a miner trying to trade, but the cost is avoidable by switching to proof of stake as done in PeerCoin and Nxt. The crypto problems solved in Bi
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by chipsy 13y ago
I looked into the device a little further. I wouldn't call it "robotic" as the article is pushing, but it is an innovative piece of kitchen technology, speeding and simplifying many labor-intensive tasks. It's also quite
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by chipsy 13y ago
The biggest legacy of Unix is C. With Unix, runtime provisions effectively end where C picks up. C is "good enough" to build applications on, and it can be written portably, most of the time. But there is plenty of reason to chall
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by chipsy 13y ago
> once you start to follow more than 20 people your stream becomes a fire-hose that is not really consumable. I only feel like people discover the "true" nature of Twitter after they go above 200 follows - it is intended to be
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by chipsy 13y ago
The more you get exposed to other people's code, the less likely you are to dismiss it as bad immediately. Your first impressions are built upon what styles of coding you're already familiar with, and aren't to be trusted as
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by chipsy 13y ago
As I've gotten the opportunity to run some game events or moderate discussion, I have some thoughts about this. Making a space positive and inclusive is not a magical process, but it means going a lot farther than telling victims to &q
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by chipsy 13y ago
I agree; the narratives surrounding Bitcoin examine small facets and magnify their importance. It is like the "blind men and the elephant" parable.
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by chipsy 13y ago
Here's my question. What does "ground up" buy you? It is ideologically good, for sure. But it requires a viewpoint about future programming that is similar to existing programming: we'll write systems that are hard to ma
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by chipsy 13y ago
My own understanding was that it was just that particular configuration of the EGA hardware that hadn't been tried before Carmack's implementation. This is someone who found out from Romero exactly what the Keen games did: http:
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by chipsy 13y ago
I completely disagree. A digital currency is a game design in the clothes of a communication protocol. That is to say, digital currencies are poised to enter an indefinite period of competition and specialization based on the economic prope
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by chipsy 13y ago
I'm coming around to believe that the most promising, direct method of implementing equitable wealth redistribution is through cryptocurrency. Probably not just yet, but within the upcoming generations of protocols; the change in philo
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by chipsy 13y ago
I am using an AMD APU laptop right now, and I welcome this future.
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by chipsy 13y ago
A note for those who are thinking about making a "real" paint app out of these techniques - which I started on, got the architecture mostly done to a demonstration stage, and then stalled out on UI: When you start adding in the fl
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by chipsy 13y ago
There's a pattern to your complaints, which is that they are most impacting to long-term external contribution. That's the area where architecture is driven by philosophy. It's whether or not you _choose_ to study the problem
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"Rule of the best," or as one might also call it, aristocracy.
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For similar reasons (built-in MIDI interfacing) the Atari STs had a huge uptake in music production that has lasted well beyond their lifespan as general-purpose computers, and even into recent years. Music arrangements haven't gotten
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by chipsy 13y ago
It is a good goal. There are a few lines of thinking about this. One is to stress discipline by coding in the "literate programming" style. Another is to stress writing less code so that less has to be expressed. A third is to mak
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by chipsy 13y ago
My main caution about how you framed the challenge is with the constraint of familiarity(hackers fix systems), which can take us nowhere in a hurry. Often, it's pushing a philosophical angle that can drive technical work into the suppo

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