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by chipsy 10y ago
In agreement. I started using a rule of "use the language's primitives first" to guide my use of DRY. There are many ways in which you can "reduce repetition" by introducing a generalization abstraction, something t
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by chipsy 10y ago
Faxing did exist essentially as soon as they came up with wirephoto. It was just really, really expensive for a long time, and you got a better average benefit out of a long distance call or telegram.
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by chipsy 10y ago
I think it is absurd to think that the paper is not impressive. The rendered output shows no sign of corners being cut - it is nicely laid out and has well made graphics. It's about as good as TeX output, and the system is doing far mo
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by chipsy 10y ago
I like this post because it captures some way in which my perspective has changed over time. Engineering was something I saw as a way to perhaps "cheat" at product problems because if I made a good enough/fast enough/aut
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by chipsy 10y ago
Plan and structure more of your day. Put better things to do on your calendar, things you like such as hobbies or social events as well as "productive" tasks. Give yourself a generous amount of time to do things in, more than you
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by chipsy 10y ago
I remember trying this one and thinking that the language was fine(it is literally an update from the makers of the Atari 8-bit BASIC) but the UI is unsuitable as it uses generic Android text input, the same flaw shared by most every other
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by chipsy 10y ago
This has already happened with SQL databases. Performance tuning a database can be messy because sometimes you have to outsmart the query optimizer. But in the average case it is doing the Right Thing without you having to think about what
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by chipsy 10y ago
At 30 I enjoyed this but have a certain criticism in mind. I do recognize that my frenzied "quest for meaning" is fading a bit as I settle into habit, but I'm also certain that that doesn't mean that I'm in a better
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by chipsy 10y ago
No, it's because game engines don't unit test well. There is too much I/O, latency dependent behavior, and shared mutable state to make it feasible outside of some math and low level format or protocol tests. Many game bugs a
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by chipsy 10y ago
Plus one for my interest. I became checked out of front-end framework developments when it started to become a big build process with a lot of dependencies, and if that can be reversed, I'd be happy to work with the DOM again.
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by chipsy 10y ago
It's always been really, really bad once you try to take the experience into your own hands. The path of least resistance with technology is to stay well behind the curve, choose the popular brand, avoid niche use cases, use the minimu
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by chipsy 10y ago
Here is an example of a contemporary demo on the Atari 8-bits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_YsoR11d8 You might notice that some scenes show more colors onscreen than contemporaries like the C64 - this is all because o
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by chipsy 10y ago
"Topic-centric" is already a thing in technical writing. It produces those mystery-meat help systems you find in larger applications where you can find information about a specific piece of functionality piecemeal, and if you&#x27
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by chipsy 10y ago
It's very difficult to have an open discussion between dozens of parties because every discussion is subject to tactics that dissuade an exploration of the topic. The pigeonholing of "challenge" vs. "offense" into s
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by chipsy 10y ago
It's a language powerful enough to let you design a custom template system, i.e. it's second-order meta-programming, pushing the leveraging potential way farther than most people would even consider offhand. This kind of thing doe
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by chipsy 10y ago
It's brought on by being a big company that wants to leverage existing customer bases into new markets. Both Sony and Microsoft engaged in the "platform strategy" in the last two generations, while Nintendo sat back making tr
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by chipsy 10y ago
Digital distribution has brought back the feeling of the older computer games in a big way. Steam has some titles, but it still puts up some barriers. itch.io [0] is the hotspot for stuff too small to notice these days. Just last night I wa
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by chipsy 10y ago
Simple geometry argues that you can fit more people on dedicated train cars than a fleet of independent vehicles. You don't get 100% of the benefit of stop-free transit in the real world because there will be pedestrians - you need a d
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by chipsy 10y ago
I'm also a not-taker (as opposed to a note-taker) and my entire school career consists of binder paper covered with doodles while I listen, with half-hearted notes taken when the teacher required it for some reason. This got me into so
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by chipsy 10y ago
This is a nicely polished-and-optimized hardware version of the UI in Stephen Lavelle's Plingpling. [0] I have a prototype sitting around of a directly inspired "draw-to-physics" thing myself. [0] http://www.plingp
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by chipsy 11y ago
Hong Kong faced this conundrum in the mid-20th century: Lots of refugee immigration, plus a major fire, causing an urgent housing crisis at the bottom end of the market. The city built massive, tenement-style public housing blocks, and neve
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by chipsy 11y ago
Parking lots are attractive to crime: Unattended vehicles, low surveillance, relative anonymity, unused space late at night. Many kinds of deals take place entirely within parking lots. The crime wouldn't vanish if these locations were
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by chipsy 11y ago
The Bay Bridge OTOH did have a railway(Key System rail) for some time after it opened. Ripped up in the mid-century turn away from streetcars, thus we now have only car traffic on both decks.
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by chipsy 11y ago
I will allow that GC can be fast, but you have to work hard and have appropriate language features to keep it "chunky". If you have millions of small traces to follow, the n of your O(n) is going to be big. In contrast a manual co
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by chipsy 11y ago
I started optimizing by making separate increment/render threads with a buffer and copy, and then doubled it to 4 threads. It's currently at 0xDD cycles but I don't think I'm going to take it farther: http://i
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by chipsy 11y ago
It's really ungainly to work with -- but it does drop the cycle counts to solve the problems by running more threads.
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by chipsy 11y ago
It's coded. You see "handout" named as such more often when it's low-quality, inefficient service. With a system like BART, the whole thing was motivated by pressure to relieve middle-class downtown commuters specificall
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by chipsy 11y ago
There's a sort of "feedback loop inversion" effect in play where transit caters to extremes of poverty and wealth and not the middle. For example, Palo Alto's Caltrain stops are not high-end real estate because transit r
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by chipsy 11y ago
I agree too. "3D" had another push a half-decade ago in theaters and on TVs, and by this point it's reasonable to call it a failure. VR is much in the same vein: it's inconvenient enough to our lives that we're more
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by chipsy 11y ago
There is a crucial element of that form of criticism, which is that it is played like a game: There is a definite time and place, a magic circle, and when it's over everything is "reset" and you just have a project artifact a

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