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by chipsy 14y ago
It's wheel reinvention - same idea, different UI. But that's not always a terrible thing in programming; in fact it describes most of our software.
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by chipsy 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D_and_influenza
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by chipsy 14y ago
Sufficiently Smart Compilers vs. Sufficiently Dumb Code
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by chipsy 14y ago
I believe this is why artists tend to be more self-critical. They aren't making money(mostly) and so they're relatively free to consciously acknowledge their limits. The boundaries, when they're encountered, tend to come from social forces
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by chipsy 14y ago
This is gaslighting language: "This is how it's supposed to be" with no real facts and certainly no declaration of limits. It's okay to cross any boundary in the process of asserting yourself, the way you've put it. In addition, it's quite
726.
by chipsy 14y ago
Like others, I would have to point to the choice of making another sudoku as a critical flaw. When a game is the same game as every other, it gets very little buzz or word of mouth...unless it has some overwhelmingly strong new feature to a
727.
by chipsy 14y ago
I agree with jblow. I consider ternary a "sharp knife" in that even though it saves space, I never want to see it used more than one level deep. I don't want sharp knives in my code, I want Lego bricks. If that means the source code is a li
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by chipsy 14y ago
The way I would put it is: most of the things we call "wisdom" are more like "fashion." It's fashionable to be "in the cloud." It's fashionable to "fail fast." And so on. These are cyclical attributes; one can always find, at the least, an
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by chipsy 14y ago
"Heard of", maybe not. But "working with" I can believe. A friend of mine was writing an assembler with a built-in arithmetic expression syntax last year. Clearly it was low-level, because it wasn't trying to abstract away hardware - but it
730.
by chipsy 14y ago
The fact that is it "not always anymore" may be a blessing in disguise. The focus of attention in the last decade or so has been all around heavier, VM-centric languages like Java or Ruby, but opportunities for new systems programming techn
731.
by chipsy 14y ago
The comments, for me, are more interesting than the article, because they proceed to prescriptions. Guaranteed income(aka basic income) is the major topic of discussion. It has a lot of qualities that make it more appealing than present-day
732.
by chipsy 14y ago
Practically the entire audio field(recording, synthesis, processing, sequencing, etc.) has stayed away from Android because latency is far too high on average, ruining UX; it also varies widely between manufacturers, which doesn't help matt
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by chipsy 14y ago
I'm pretty sure some of it is broken in all browsers now because the specs for these APIs have all changed.
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by chipsy 14y ago
The best thing about failing at a wide variety of things is in learning how much they are "the same" in that there are rarely any tricks involved - you just have to find, understand, and practice the fundamental ideas a lot to become more s
735.
by chipsy 14y ago
One protocol I've skimmed over is http://about.psyc.eu/ which claims to bridge IRC and XMPP, among numerous other things. The claimed scope is so broad, though, that it's hard even to figure out a good starting point for further investiga
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by chipsy 14y ago
I've determined independently that a IRC server fills a sweet spot in the collaborative toolset. A basic IM system isn't good enough because it doesn't have channels, it doesn't give you a shared history. Email is heavy and induces people t
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by chipsy 14y ago
To add to the "layers" aspect, the young hotshot coders of the world are also some of the worst at making marketable products, because they've become used to making an 80% prototype and then moving on to the next thing, which means that the
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by chipsy 14y ago
Twitter isn't ideal for people who prefer to abstractly snipe into a discussion(which is the overwhelming tendency of hobbyist forums) because it's too personal. You have to follow a whole person, and take in their whole set of interests, a
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by chipsy 14y ago
I'm reading your line of reasoning and coming to the opposite conclusions. In the North Korean power structure, superior authorities need to be depended on to improve the "helpless" masses, and a takeover would not be believed to be an impr
740.
by chipsy 14y ago
Thank you for being dismissive of a concern that is personal and emotional. You are the problem.
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by chipsy 14y ago
This is amazing advice, but you clearly aren't dead yet.
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by chipsy 14y ago
Wikipedia says it in the first paragraph: "(Indoctrination) is often distinguished from education by the fact that the indoctrinated person is expected not to question or critically examine the doctrine they have learned." Zed is specifical
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by chipsy 14y ago
I recommend the "STEPS Toward Expressive Computing Systems" reports for more current-day thoughts on OS redesign (available here http://www.vpri.org/html/writings.php ) Basically, by designing exactly the necessary language for each laye
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Haxe/NME 3.5.0 released(haxenme.org)
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by chipsy 14y ago
NME(The premier Haxe cross-platform gaming/media library) also just updated, adding some support for native OpenGL calls: http://www.haxenme.org/blog/2012/12/22/merry-christmas-nme-3... 2013 is shaping up to be a strong year for Haxe's ga
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by chipsy 14y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQizYzw27FY It's a very cute and well-known program.
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by chipsy 14y ago
I don't feel this at all, but do I think it's easy to cultivate your way into a corner with opt-in social media, especially if you come at it from an "industry" angle where you're following a lot of people stuck in the same echo chamber wit
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by chipsy 14y ago
I rolled my own format specifically for configuration. No significant whitespace, delimiters may dangle, and the parser implementation can be configured to accept very high ambiguity(including, if desired, mixtures of sequence and key-value
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by chipsy 14y ago
Life: Losing money in a scam. Disillusionment is the greatest gift. Programming: Stopped being scared.
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by chipsy 14y ago
A lazy data structure exposes access methods that exhibit lazy-evaluator behavior. For example, you have a "rectangle" structure that contains position, width and height, and the structure has methods that let you apply matrix transformatio

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