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Context?
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Changing denominators has an effect on the liquidity of small transactions, but it's not going to change inflation. What inflation does in an economic sense is much bigger - it changes who has relatively more or less wealth or debt over tim
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Meetup is a really solid service. I've used it for many years now, and increasingly so. The activities/in-person focus makes it a much stronger and stickier social network than most. Also, there's a critical-mass issue that explains why it'
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The other half of it is learning to engage more with other people's code and get inside their head. The stereotype of the young coder, when given no oversight, is to skim over something, declare it crap, and start rewriting without even try
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I follow over 1000 accounts on Twitter, almost all of them linked to specific individuals and involved in something creative - games, music, art, or writing(including journalism). So I have a little bit more data than most. The tweet-per-da
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On average things get more broken, not less, because a small company can only break so much before it simply stops working altogether, while a big one can absorb enormous blows of failure and continue on inertia alone, while simultaneously
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As it happens I wrote something that addresses this type of statement, just today. http://spacecreeps.com/essays/when_a_game_means_something/in...
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How you looked at J. Paul Morrison's "Flow Based Programming" book? I recommend it since it touches upon a lot of similar topics. As your article points out, the concatenative style can be visualized as a flow; in the Morrison book flow is
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In VESPER.5 you play one turn per day for a meditative experience.
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If your goal is a voxelized world, what's your reasoning for starting with the Q3 BSP strategy, and not something more like Voxlap?
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I guess it won't be long now before we start coming up with the "Evil Empire" and "Borg" comparisons for Google. No tech monopoly seems to be immune...
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I haven't looked into building anything(I've just played with demos when they're available) but my understanding is that what is offered in most of these neurointerface platforms is an API for simple things, and then low-level access to dig
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MindSet is used in the game "Throw Trucks With Your Mind," which recently had a successful Kickstarter campaign. I've played with a prototype build of the game, the headset works great although I'm surprised that it's also precise enough fo
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Different anecdote. I had a problem with clothesmoths. I took all my clothes and put them in vacuum bags, and sucked out all the air. I never had a problem again.
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IMHO, this isn't a failure. We know that it's not going to be a business-as-usual currency. Easy credit is an incentive for business; inflation is an incentive for consumers. Governments have much better control over that. BC is better unde
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This is what I was thinking. There are dumbbell adaptations of most barbell exercises. I've been doing dumbbell deadlifts and the one-legged variant, as well as lunges. They are certainly different and have a different emphasis and limitati
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I believe what most people need more of is confessions. When people tell a story about something that deeply affected them it's not just more cathartic and changing, it gets a much more powerful response than other types of posts. However i
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I do agree that the gaming schools are mostly scams, but we're also simultaneously witnessing a shift in purpose and incentives to enter the field. Hobby game dev is a Real Thing now and can be picked up by people without coding skills(via
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It really shouldn't matter whether you're doing one or the other. You need availability and quality of other things in your ecosystem to make the big leaps. And when you do make the leap, it tends to look trivial.
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I'm embarrassed to show it since I only have parts of a system right now, not a finished system. But as I implied in the OP, the code I'm writing is mostly conventional algorithms and data structures; the twist is in some subtle detail that
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In the last two months I started deliberately increasing the amount of coding time that is classical algorithm time. Not by working through books and problem sets, but by redefining day-to-day engineering problems that have an easy way out
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A bad article with a wonderful writing prompt. We've long passed the point where JS is considered foundational technology, with near-universal adoption. It's hard to understate what that level of standardization can do for the whole softwar
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On my Android (4.1) the demos loaded and ran slowly on Firefox, but were best by far with Chrome Beta: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chrome.bet... There were still obvious hiccups attributable to the GC. Most of the ti
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I beg to differ. As software itself has grown, it's developed an enormous need for axiomatic methods because of the benefits it can confer for software reliability. Simply, we want to prove that a program is wrong at the earliest stage poss
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OK. Now go and take this opinion to its logical extreme. Any record, any meta-commentary, any summary, must become suspect, whether it was made 500 years ago or 5 minutes ago. Oops, now you can no longer communicate with people - no "catchi
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I think it is definitely the bubble scenario again, but there are some demographic differences that could change our expectations for the results. The most important thing to recognize is that entry-level skill requirements for programming
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I think the author mostly has a point with regards to backwards compatability; however, mobile app development is already centered around OpenGL ES graphics, so I don't see it as a major stumbling block for new code. Of the three points he
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Unfortunately, it's a clone of a type of game that is commonplace on Flash portals. It doesn't have remarkable features beyond being polished - and what the press and the (word-of-mouth) public needs most to market the game for you is stuff
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This is the comment I agree with most. Replace a solution defined as a "design pattern" with one defined as a data structure and you get a lot more clarity. The problem MVC solves can be recomposed as "synchronization of concurrent, related
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No, that's still making the assumption that all worthwhile solutions are balls of mud, leading to "freeze it in time" as the only sane option for preservation. That's cultural, not inherent to the technology. If every part of the stack is t

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