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by chipsy 11y ago
Math-heavy code tends to involve a lot of very similar algorithms, leading to a copy-paste-rename situation that isn't really helped by using a function. As such it's incredibly common to end up with bugs from assigning to "x
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by chipsy 11y ago
Or you could just have data. The behavior of mixing is not going to change because of those things.
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by chipsy 11y ago
No faith in his claims if he speaks like he writes.
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by chipsy 11y ago
After a certain point, it's better for a system to be absorbed into an API instead of trying to be configurable. Then you can just write code again, and it's complex but not idiosyncratic.
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by chipsy 11y ago
In the past, Gamasutra has also published data indicating correlations between "biggest problems/biggest successes" and marketplace success. The takeaways I remember about that: A good producer matters, a team of a least thre
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by chipsy 11y ago
Cold logic. The advertisement defines life as something that is not doing chores. Therefore people who do chores are not living. Whether that makes them "subhuman" does involve some interpretation, but if you call someone "no
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by chipsy 11y ago
A train seat is not the thing I am paying for. A transit company is typically chartered around provision of service regions and schedules, and it has the power to divert passengers to alternatives like buses if problems arise preventing use
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by chipsy 11y ago
My dependency strategy over time has moved towards more static, project-owns-everything behavior, and specifically "one synchronization script per dependency" - including my own utilities library. The script leaves a echo of the t
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by chipsy 11y ago
Perhaps an appropriate measure for interviewing is to do some psychological profiling to spot where a candidate is imbalanced, and then incorporate into the remainder of questioning. As an interviewer, you're always going to be biasing
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by chipsy 11y ago
In a lot of ways, FBF animation has never been disrupted so much as just temporarily displaced by other techniques for reasons of efficiency. The animator still has to make good design decisions up front so that the figure construction work
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by chipsy 11y ago
This may be the best advice in the whole thread. Once in the Real World, you are free to be an asshole about how you negotiate and just...not stick to your statements of obligation. You suffer consequences only if you have to deal with the
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by chipsy 11y ago
That isn't clear to me. Computers are good at arithmetic and sequential algorithms by design, but those are also applications of their power, and categorizing them by the intended application is also pretty dumb. It is the tricks and
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by chipsy 11y ago
When I was confronted with this dilemma for the first time I attacked it by using multiple passes. My original draft is markdown. I pandoc it to DocBook. Then I add frills and edits in DocBook. I see the process as not being different from
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by chipsy 11y ago
With respect to Checkers (specifically, the 8x8 English Draughts variant), it's been a solved game as of last decade, and people still play in tournaments. I don't think it's that silly, since there are many techniques we&#x2
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by chipsy 11y ago
Things that this does not cover: Transportation Education Health Childcare Clothes Job-seeking expenses If you want the flexibility to cover every avenue of "i and my family have a shot at making it," you either arrive at a combin
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by chipsy 11y ago
It's actually a good contrast to the biases of id tech 4 - bright, huge scale outdoor landscapes and arenas with hundreds of AI opponents vs. dark interiors with mood lighting and smaller engagements. It's an early example of heav
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by chipsy 11y ago
The logistic function (or "S-curve") describes systems that expand first at exponential rates, then logarithmic ones. With respect to new technologies, it's been observed that adoption rates and most measurable improvements f
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by chipsy 11y ago
There's always an element of "one step forward, two steps back" with major technology shifts. Every time we've had a big change in platforms, we also had to redo existing engineering work. I don't think this is doom
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by chipsy 11y ago
It isn't a tree search algorithm.
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by chipsy 11y ago
Well, it is equivalent. Not in terms of what a played back sound is like, because tape and digital both introduce characteristic artifacts, but in terms of "this signal peak is so many dB above the noise floor." If you actually co
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by chipsy 11y ago
I have to assume this is coming from people who are not good text communicators in general because the same problem exists with email: "when would you like to schedule this" without indication of your own schedule is one such pet
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by chipsy 11y ago
This is the old "freedom/security" debate in the guise of interpersonal consent. Governance has always involved coercion at the individual level, because governments rule with force, and a certain amount of force is necessary
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by chipsy 11y ago
As i start to read this, "Dancing Queen" comes on. Clearly they control the airwaves.
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by chipsy 11y ago
I read Dear's The Dungeon Master back in high school and want to reread it at some point. It's a complex, real story, and told with some empathy.
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by chipsy 11y ago
I agree. Ravioli code is particularly nasty because it fulfills "DRY" in the small but hurts the ability to make further changes. In both the spaghetti and ravioli situations a cyclical attack of "factor/inline/fact
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by chipsy 11y ago
It's a rebrand of Flashdevelop (with cruft stripped out). We're still waiting for the ultimate Haxe IDE-in-Haxe...
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by chipsy 11y ago
This is definitely along the lines of what transportation tech has done to date. Instead of new replacing old altogether, the options just get more flexible over time, easier to "packet switch". You don't take just the bike o
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by chipsy 11y ago
Most of these things really come down to implementation detail(e.g. formatting rules), and they are mostly interesting for aesthetic purposes. The important ones like conventions surrounding replies are weird artifacts left over from the ea
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by chipsy 11y ago
There's certainly arguments for accumulating towards a target number. You can also combine this with the streak method and say "through date xx aim for yy frequency" - in effect having a goal number and the rate at which you
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by chipsy 11y ago
It's the biggest fallacy in armchair transit planning: Misunderstanding what induced demand means. If the system is at capacity everywhere, but you build to the point where a modality(any modality) is no longer congested, new demand wi

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