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by chipsy 14y ago
I have to agree that there isn't a sure thing. Dan Cook is a very smart guy, but even smart guys can get the wrong perspective and end up running into a wall. Personally I look at the game business as a sort of "innovator's hustle," where m
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by chipsy 14y ago
The longest-lasting businesses in history are small to mid-sized - at most a few hundred employees - and they are (unsurprisingly) all in timeless, age-old industries. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies ) The huge Bri
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by chipsy 14y ago
The puzzle of evading materialism is that it seems to infest everything. >because you have such relentless resourcefulness, determination, and physical and mental health And what if you don't? What if you're weak in one of those areas a
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by chipsy 14y ago
What do you do for networking, though? That seems to be the motivation to introduce callbacky code in web programming. (FWIW my own architectures tend to turn callbacks into queues and polling.)
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by chipsy 14y ago
When I see dismissals I look for a particular kind of fallacy, which this is an example of: Reasoning backwards to support the opinion. "This tool is unknown to me and their claimed improvements are dramatic" - "I would not trust an unknown
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by chipsy 14y ago
Not ideas. Belief. There are tons of good ideas that you dismiss. There are tons of shitty ideas that you act upon. The difference is that one will call out to you and say "Make me happen" when the others don't, regardless of how many ratio
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This is, in the end, a reflection of the incentives governments have crafted in recent environmental policy. Now that there's an opening for profit, the market has rushed in to provide "solutions" of varying quality and ethics.
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Like with most things scientific, when one gets down to the fine details, it's hard to make any solid conclusion of who was "first." It's most likely that Lovelace and Babbage had already had conversations about computing before the machine
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When I last used Free Pascal(5+ years ago) it had a Delphi compatibility mode that worked "mostly correct" on the libraries I used. (changes needed, iirc, were minor) Lazarus wasn't ready as an IDE at that time(lots of missing stuff, I used
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Win32 apps from smaller teams often happen to be using Delphi underneath: http://delphi.wikia.com/wiki/Good_Quality_Applications_Built... As a dev environment Pascal is also (unsurprisingly) quite mature; both open source and commercial
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by chipsy 14y ago
I think there's a mix of bad mojo all around for the Flash player: -It's a quite old codebase at this point(approaching 20 years) -There's a huge amount of backwards compatibility expected - 11 major versions and counting -The technology is
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by chipsy 14y ago
Tries for dictionaries are the simplest method. However, it limits the search method to forward-only. For more sophisticated dictionary searches there is DAWG: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_acyclic_word_graph http://www.pathcom.c
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by chipsy 14y ago
I've been doing audio processing in Flash for a while (most recently, sample-based synthesis implementing a decent portion of SFZ and SF2, with 64-voice polyphony and filters) and I did have to push an unusual degree of effort into optimizi
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by chipsy 14y ago
I have to agree that this question set sits in between "useful CS topics" and "domain knowledge." Although a lot of people are building off of software libraries that use some heavy-duty CS knowledge, they need only be aware of the first-or
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Simplifying problems is hard work - it means making firm decisions about your needs and laying bare how much of your work is truly original, vs. being regurgitated effort done thousands of times by others. Writing a very complex solution ap
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I don't think it's about time/schedule but rather intensity. I would agree in that the majority of application code really is just little bits of accumulation - piling on another feature or fixing another bug. Those are things you do optima
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To me it is a faith-induced form of ignorance - that because you have mastered one of the tiny, tiny subsets of all the world's technical knowledge, you believe yourself to have similar ability in other realms of knowledge as well. Morality
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It's also a series of Japanese role-playing games.
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I personally have taken the stance that there is negative campaigning going on from both sides, dirtying the science. This is why you keep seeing people cry out that the sweeteners cause cancer - it's one of those easy, believable, fear-i
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by chipsy 14y ago
I had a similar experience to yours -- when I was in college. LD was run on an infrequent basis then. I participated in two, as well as some student-run ones, and figured, "ah, I think I've done enough jams, I should do bigger games. These
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by chipsy 14y ago
Okay, but what is ellipse(50,25,32,5)? "ellipse" and numbers are only hints, just as blank buttons and dials are only hints. Programmers rely a lot on IDE support now to see the parameters...which is exactly what Bret is talking about!
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Construction constitutes a huge part of economic activity. While the public is going to have to be skeptical of any new construction technique until the buildings have some track record(imagine what people thought about the first skyscraper
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The majority of the city tax dollars still come from tourism, not tech. That business is so lucrative that the government can remain extremely inefficient for an indefinite period without facing a major crisis. As well, it's playing a huge
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It almost certainly does matter more. Alan Kay's admonition that perspective matters more than smarts comes to mind.
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It depends on how you formulate your risk model. The industry titans can afford to develop "any" amount of custom tech, subject to schedule constraints, since the art and marketing budgets tend to vastly outweigh the engineering now. But in
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The 90s represented a period of growing pains where the industry was scaling its budgets and team sizes very quickly and, for the most part, didn't have any processes in place to deal with scale or to maintain a codebase for the long term -
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With government interventions I usually base my reasoning on these facts: Income inequality is known to lower growth, and the development of industrial economies occurs concurrent with the growth of the middle class. The oft-praised Scandin
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I've been using Haxe for several years. I heartily recommend it, even outside of Flash and JS targets where it's strongest. The compiler is very solid. You can still expect to be filling in some gaps in library support - but the other side
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Disagree with the concept. I would recommend studying pixel art for examples of really strong color usage - most modern styles work within an economical palette, just like in graphic design. Black is commonplace, it's how it's used that mat
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http://gangles.ca/2009/01/20/the-six-layers/ It applies equally well to innovative business ideas as to other creative fields - it's hard to "see" into the internals of entrepreneurial activity, but if you don't, you're going to be a "CEO

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