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by chipsy 14y ago
CS students are among some of the most hostile, sophomoric people you will ever encounter in software development. They all have something to prove, even though they've barely started themselves, so putdowns are common. Grain of salt. Expe
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by chipsy 14y ago
I made a soft-synthesis and MIDI playback engine in Haxe targeting Flash: http://www.ludamix.com/apps/triad-synth/index.html Haven't done an official port yet, but one of the NME devs did look into using it to test the SampleDataEvent API
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by chipsy 14y ago
The syntax is curly-brace, and on a surface level closest to AS3, but the underlying design borrows a lot from Pascal in terms of minimalism(something which Nicolas has mentioned once or twice): The types are based on JS without truthy or f
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by chipsy 14y ago
To elaborate: Only about a decade ago, 3D game lights were almost uniformly "additive spheres" supplemented with some ambient or directional light. They didn't bounce or diffuse properly. Environments and characters each had separate lighti
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by chipsy 14y ago
Id (as a team) shipped literally hundreds of times before even becoming Id. For one example: http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,81... In general, I find that a close inspection of these success stories only uncovers
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by chipsy 14y ago
I find that sandboxed environments have a kind of inherent quality of liberation to them - a solution may be far slower and clunkier than the hardware would ideally allow, but when seen another way, you're really just "going back in time" t
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by chipsy 14y ago
I'm not in debt(yet), but I'm also in the position of "haven't really earned" and it's definitely pinching me, although I'm failing less each time, which is keeping me motivated. But your guess is accurate. People want to be hands-on, socia
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by chipsy 14y ago
Are you aware of dsp.js? You are welcome to work off of the Haxe code I've been writing for Triad as well: https://github.com/triplefox/triad/tree/master/dev/com/ludam... Demo: http://www.ludamix.com/apps/triad-synth/index.html
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by chipsy 14y ago
Professional programming's only been around for 2-3 generations. I don't think there's any hard evidence for the skills being limited to a particular domain - rather the opposite, we keep discovering new things to apply code to. It used to
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by chipsy 14y ago
Although this wasn't the entire message of the original - I'm intrigued by the general idea of committing to a line-in-the-sand approach on streaming vs. buffering. I've been writing a fair number of file format parsers lately for various a
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by chipsy 14y ago
I should add that bullets can go through the roof, and this has been documented to happen in some of the incidents of upward-aimed fire causing injury. But I agree with the idea of aiming towards locations where the bullet is likely to pene
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by chipsy 15y ago
I have a slightly different feeling of what the internet is doing for politics. It's a subtle change, but one which I think has outsized long-term effects. Basically, my thesis is that we are generating more collective wisdom in the past. T
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by chipsy 15y ago
You can compile programs with those languages and get something that works, but on a regular basis, some programmer will say something like, "Ok, I'll use Go for project x" and get part of the way into it and then discovers... ...a critical
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by chipsy 15y ago
I see more urban signage for video games than for movies lately.
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by chipsy 15y ago
What makes it a business is that the skills and problems are more unnamed than not. If it was really that well-understood, someone would be trying to automate the heck out of it. The business only has to get far enough to deliver a product
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Flash/Haxe MIDI Synth(ludamix.com)
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by chipsy 15y ago
The WSJ had an article on showrooming just the other day: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230458770457733...
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by chipsy 15y ago
You market these products differently. The minimum-viable is going to have to be a free game. It may be of demo length, and it is not supposed to monetize. The goal is simply to maximize early feedback and find your customers. If it's in th
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by chipsy 15y ago
I have a little hunch that any parallelism "answer" is going to be derived primarily from ever-more-grand exploitation of its strengths, not patching of its weaknesses. We know that in a formal reasoning sense, an asynchronous system is les
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by chipsy 15y ago
This is the company that simply yanked out floppy drives when they decided they were no longer necessary, so it's probably not a priority at all. It doesn't directly cause breakage, and a few years down the line, Retina will be everywhere.
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by chipsy 15y ago
I upvoted this article because I actually hold the opposite opinion. While I wouldn't deny that most people are going to have a better experience on Windows or OSX right now, I believe that as the commercial software world becomes increasin
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by chipsy 15y ago
I found a reasonably safe way to use App Engine: -Make the "app" part of a stack, not the entire app. -Only do one task at a time. -Fit the task well within free quotas. This goes against the nominal model of the service, but it's effective
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by chipsy 15y ago
Agreed, roughly. Nobody particularly likes reading callbacky code, but it has a lot of power. What we don't have enough of is "structured alternatives" for our "goto."
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by chipsy 15y ago
Being faced with that kind of struggle is good. Everyone who's lived long enough can recall some time when they were, in hindsight, a horrible person. And if you're aware of it, you're winning. No pain, no gain.
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by chipsy 15y ago
I would agree and would elaborate that the major weaknesses of C are a combination of build system issues and an overly weak type system. It wasn't realistic to have the whole compile process done in memory in the early 70's, and OS virtual
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by chipsy 15y ago
You(and the other commenters) prompted me to do something I've been meaning to do for a while: Get my code on github. The actor system (Haxe highlighting is broken): https://github.com/triplefox/triad/blob/master/dev/com/ludam... And exam
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by chipsy 15y ago
As someone who works in games, I should point out that the industry has rejected the hierarchical OO model in new engines because it doesn't remain maintainable at scale. The influence that is driving the new stuff - component systems and c
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by chipsy 15y ago
I think there's actually a balance between the self-sacrifice view and the optimization view. Your parents have to sacrifice to give you care and attention. Likewise, you have to sacrifice to build skills. All along, chance factors come in
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by chipsy 15y ago
Keep in mind that you have created a strawman by extending the requirements of "deploy everywhere" to be UI-focused, when one-size-fits-all UI is not listed as a selling point. In the case of HaXe, its focus has emerged from Web games with
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by chipsy 15y ago
It's always about the fundamentals, isn't it?

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