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by chipsy 13y ago
Not so much in the American colonies, but they were informed by the ones in Europe. This was the era Thomas Malthus himself grew up in (b. 1766). The basis of the U.S. "yeoman farmer" idea was, in part, that there was land availab
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Investments always have an exit time frame; if you never end up exchanging them for something else, then their worth is as meaningless as if the price were zero. This is as true of a business as it is of stock or currency trading. I look at
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Incorrect. For example, the bonobo.
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That's "GDDR5" which is tuned specifically for graphics applications. According to Wiki it's still based on DDR3.
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I investigated the "why make games" question recently: http://ludamix.com/essays/the_answer/index.html
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by chipsy 13y ago
The changes are generational, and to some extent preceded Twitter. If you went back 10 years, even mid-day, there were visibly more angry young men standing around. You didn't have the theater presence that is building up now, or the p
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The top option for learning is to work off a spec to implement your own compiler. A good second place would be exhaustively studying and maintaining an existing compiler. Regular use of a language can build certain kinds of knowledge about
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by chipsy 13y ago
People complain loudly about gotchas in JS, but when you look at what C++ programmers have to contend with...
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Some discussion: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2013/10/06/msg015632....
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I don't see graphics as a silver bullet, but I do think they're underused or misused. Graphics provide a wider variety of feedback; they let you see graph structures and summaries of data, and allow connections to be spatially rep
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Re: People who are saying the funnel is still there. This is entirely a perspective thing; the customers see messages and options, not a funnel. You only see a funnel when you think of it as one. The author describes a deliberate avoidance
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by chipsy 13y ago
During the year-to-date(starting in January) I put on about 25 pounds of muscle. The motivations were a mix of vanity, desire for general well-being, and the increasing recognition of my own mortality as year 30 draws closer. (w/r to t
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I think the mentality can be extended to most code-reading. Don't get it by skimming? Must be crap code. I only got away from that when I changed my litmus test towards whether I could write on top of the codebase successfully, not how
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It's not that capital here doesn't exist - it's just concentrated to a toxic degree. Warren Buffett is a smart investor, but he can't squeeze the most out of every dollar, not at the scale he's obligated to invest a
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Productivity by any volume measure seems meaningless in the software context. That's like measuring writing productivity by word count. Nobody really likes high-volume communication, unless the goal is to write a lot of trash. Even if
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FRP is very similar in nature to FBP. (even the acronyms are similar) The main difference is in packaging. The original FBP systems were still 70s-style near-metal code within the component design, but the architecture described a protocol
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Yes, I think this is the main insight of the "revolutionary" part of FBP. It's not there to make everything look like a circuit board, but to be the template for the parts of software that are well-suited for the paradigm - w
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Note that Jan's call to action is not a 20th century one. This "revolution" has nothing to do with bloodshed in the streets and ideological hardlining(the twin failures of most revolutionary movements), and a lot to do with g
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I don't think developers want to listen, either. After all, improving basic practices doesn't directly translate to whiz-bang projects on the portfolio. But learning a hot new framework and making a demo in it - they'll drop
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You invade the city and then you say it sucks and should be rebuilt just for you. Thank you for sharing.
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I don't think I've ever seen someone use such gleefully religious rhetoric to advocate dynamic types before.
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My favored moral framework for most situations is the noblesse oblige: If, by chance or by choice, you have the privilege of affecting a lot of people, you now have the responsibility of supporting the most marginalized members of that grou
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Where these projects tend to fail is in being designed with the assumption of needing to be as decomposed and abstracted as textual code. Suddenly the components become "syntax" again and you're just doing regular old coding
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This isn't necessarily an open-source problem, but a politics and leadership problem.
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They might not be cost-competitive. Intel's process advantage comes from vertical integration. But it also means that they need to keep pushing out high-margin flagship products to support their scale of operations and technology advan
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As someone who has had the misfortune of holding this type of scam stock in the past, I have great sympathies for the shareholders. There are all sorts of ways you can find yourself holding a worthless investment(myself, via the entreaties
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The formulation of passive income the author talks about is specifically addressed to the crowd that wants(or is being instructed by "self-help gurus") to turn around a product of minimal or transient value. Although that sector m
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There's an extremely important design skill in knowing what kinds of algorithms might be fun to turn into a playable form, and doing that is a mix of getting past preconceived "all games are like this" notions, and having sub
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Joking with friends last night: "Facebook Liked your status." I've held the opinion that FB is poised for major user erosion, as a consequence I took a short position in the stock some months ago. However, since they've

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