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by chipsy 15y ago
It indicates that what the author may want is a more expressive type system, one that can do some static verification(e.g. Scala's Option, Haskell's Maybe). Another way to get the behavior of the described Maybe method is to enforce a codin
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by chipsy 15y ago
The Space Jam theme song remains a popular target for remixing and mashups.
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by chipsy 15y ago
These things are a form of "premature optimization," which I think anyone can be misguided into, but which younger/less experienced programmers are particularly prone to, because they naturally tend to have uneven skill development, so they
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by chipsy 15y ago
This has resurfaced because indie game developers have sometimes used Vimeo to host trailers or development videos. Vimeo has enforced the policy(which is against _playthroughs_) haphazardly on these corner cases, which has caused takedowns
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by chipsy 15y ago
If you factor too early you end up with a function that takes ten parameters. Sometimes cut+paste functionality evolves into truly divergent code, and you have to have a "feel" for when it will happen.
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by chipsy 15y ago
With game programming there's a definite apogee of "code that needs to be done right," reached as the majority of the game features are integrated and gameplay is proven. Before you hit that point, you're mostly getting things wrong, so you
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by chipsy 15y ago
Definitely piqued my interest. I like that it works with Twitter, since it's an obvious "share point." But with this type of system people should have the option of posting their work anonymously. The other thing I think this type of system
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by chipsy 15y ago
My observation of this movement(in the OWS iteration) is that it is more about discussion than about action. Although there is a form of rebellion against broken systems, spurred by economic conditions, acts of protest come secondary to the
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by chipsy 15y ago
Similarly, my game has Managers for entities, collision components, and renderable components. With each one of these, I don't want to try to dump all of the data in one place where the access patterns become strained, I want them to be "ma
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by chipsy 15y ago
PHP wasn't an original goal; the first versions of haXe only supported Flash, JS, and NekoVM(A server-oriented VM Nicholas created). The community added the PHP target later since there was demand for using it on cheap web hosts in place of
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by chipsy 15y ago
By allowing failure to be an option, the door is open for unconventional pursuits and thinking that lead to the biggest opportunities... ...or so an idealized explanation would go. There is nothing I have that actually proves that claim.
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by chipsy 15y ago
"Live CGI" in particular expresses something very important about the tech - that it can be used in combination with other on-set tools and props, and cuts out much of the "parallel workflow" that is currently required to composite a CGI sc
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by chipsy 15y ago
I think the #1 reason why games don't need a lot of automated testing is serialization, or rather the common lack of it in most game worlds. If the data gets corrupt, you can reset the game and all is well again. When the rare corner cases
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by chipsy 15y ago
There are people who hustle for the business, and people who hustle only for themselves. We're talking about the latter.
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by chipsy 15y ago
Both Twitter and RSS have the advantage of letting you decide on your sources, so you have some options for lowering redundancy that don't occur in (more) centralized aggregation like HN or Reddit. I only got into Twitter relatively recentl
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by chipsy 15y ago
I would guess that PRT systems will start to make inroads in favor of new subways or rail. They share a lot of the benefits of autodriving cars, but they're based on far more mature technologies, and the cost of rail and rolling stock is fa
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by chipsy 15y ago
It's important to recognize that you don't know where the earthshaking ideas will actually come from.
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by chipsy 15y ago
I know exactly what he speaks of. Even in a project dealing with life-or-death problems, you have room to iterate and test and review, so it's OK to screw up on the first pass, as long as you're trying your best! Thus - you have nothing to
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by chipsy 15y ago
If brightness at the edges is the visual cue, would you get the same effect as rounding by fading out straight corners?
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by chipsy 15y ago
The fastest and easiest route to overall strength I've found(and regularly recommend in these types of threads) is isometric training on bars and doorframes. Daily 5-second holds at max power, done a few times from a few different angles, a
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by chipsy 15y ago
A lot of game code is actually "data" code, so the large functions come about naturally because so many assumptions and special-cases are made that you don't have anything resembling a CS-style algorithm, just a blob of "integrated assets"
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by chipsy 15y ago
I do think there is kind of a "perfect storm" effect around this game. It isn't so unique that you can't find a game to compare it to. In fact, two of the biggest influences are already present in Notch's previous work: Procedural landscape
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by chipsy 15y ago
You reminded me of an interesting thought. The industrial revolution involved advances in information only incrementally; we went from letter-writing to (eventually) phone and television. The new mediums were very unambiguously new platform
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by chipsy 15y ago
By "production issues" I would think "pipeline" first of all. It doesn't matter if it's possible to convert a high-res mesh to an optimized voxel format, if the result takes hours of compilation. That is too long an iteration time for a sin
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by chipsy 15y ago
Voxels are a (family of) data structures. Your complaint is about the use of a rendering method that blows them up into large cubes, which is like saying that using a large, pixelated typeface changes the meaning of text.
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by chipsy 15y ago
This is one of the most likely stories. However, there is alternative that looks possible(not knowing enough about the story to feel sure about the truth) which is that our victim has lied through her teeth in pursuit of Payout From BigCo -
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by chipsy 15y ago
The difference in discussion quality is this: With identity, because users can form a social hierarchy and praise or shame each other, they live in a box that others have defined them to be in. You may be in a pleasant box, but you are not
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by chipsy 15y ago
Two easy rules I've settled on for diet, mostly revolving around GI: 1. Regularly add vinegar(any kind) to most meals, or drink it diluted in water. This dramatically lowers effective GI of carbs so overconsumption is more difficult. It als
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by chipsy 15y ago
26 years old today. Definitely reflecting on this. I recall once reading that there are two kinds of breakthrough successes - younger "rockstar" successes driven by narrow, intense passion, and older "masters" who have accumulated an unmatc
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by chipsy 15y ago
I'm sensing some kind of rule of technology stories: All stories must be perceived as commentary on contemporary Apple and Google.

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