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901.
by chipsy 15y ago
I would qualify it like so: that government-scale problems still need government-scale employment. But they need relatively less of it now. As with a lot of things in technology the change is mostly creeping in from the bottom, turning larg
902.
by chipsy 15y ago
Here's the anecdote: "How much are you spending on marketing?" If the number is too low you won't even pass the retail gatekeepers. There was a period earlier in the timeline(the late 70s and the start of the 80s) where one might succeed in
903.
by chipsy 15y ago
Gamers can be really sensitive to this stuff. Most games are easy to pirate, and game communities tend to grow out of faith in the developers and a desire to be "included" in their story, at a level beyond the typical customer relationship.
904.
by chipsy 15y ago
I use a more adventurous approach: 1. Create a general compositing system(paste and offset any number of images) for each tile. 2. Subdivide tiles with corners into 16 subtiles, one per corner. 3. Run some brute force logic(also based on bi
905.
by chipsy 15y ago
Agreed. Better to go out and find the zeitgeist than to wait for it to come to you. For a first failure without mentorship I would actually consider this a pretty fast one. :)
906.
by chipsy 15y ago
From what you've said you have a good command of syntax. So the second half you are missing is general CS knowledge - how to make algorithms and data structures work for you. From there it's just a matter of finding resources to work on CS-
907.
by chipsy 15y ago
Here's the most likely problem: You aren't mature enough yet. Not really in the ego/experience sense, but in the physical mind/body sense. If my anecdotal experience(just a few years out at 25) is any indication, youth makes it harder to st
908.
by chipsy 15y ago
Having successfully finished many bad games, while gradually making better ones, here is my advice: You can know from very early user feedback whether the game is going to interest anyone as a product, but you have to stop believing in your
909.
by chipsy 15y ago
Re: the data structure defense. In the context of games, when you first write code you're in a chicken-and-egg situation, where you need finished content to demonstrate both correct behavior and desired performance in your code. So you use
910.
by chipsy 15y ago
It's not going to be reusable anyway. It's application code, by the time it's actually polished, featureful and useful to the end-user it's so tightly integrated and full of special cases that you have to consider it a one-off. Again, as Bl
911.
by chipsy 15y ago
Summary: Newbie game programmer writes engine, not game. Engine is largely unproven, since no game was shipped, and most of the effort went into adding potentially unnecessary abstractions. (N.B.: Games are integration-centric, and even sma
912.
by chipsy 15y ago
The mention of fear-driven coding strikes me as possibly more important than the process and architecture discussion. The whole concept that your emotions drive the focus of the code you write seems very true to me. As a beginner and studen
913.
by chipsy 15y ago
Non-state entities like Anonymous, et. al, exist on the same playing field as China, yet there is no military response to be had for them, short of treating the internet itself as a form of "nuclear arms" and putting correspondingly enormou
914.
by chipsy 15y ago
In a PEG you operate under the expectation that all rules will be tried exhaustively, so if one fails you just move on to the next, and if they all fail you drop back a level of recursion. Thus you can have rules like: "if <if-expr>
915.
by chipsy 15y ago
It's polished, but the game does not have marketable unique features. i.e. it would only see success if the market were to go through a very long period where no or few new matching games are released. Right now that market is congested wit
916.
by chipsy 15y ago
I think part of the problem these days is that the most creative and innovative efforts are going towards the browser. And, indeed, if browsers keep growing and start to provide an credible, sandboxed, near-native-app equivalent(e.g. pNaCl
917.
by chipsy 15y ago
My parents suffer from a much smaller-scale version of this problem. The quantity of books is probably only in the hundreds or thousands altogether so there's no threat of collapse; however, the living space is tiny, and doing anything to s
918.
by chipsy 15y ago
The internet's a third level of "human organism," not a deity. The first two levels being individuals, and traditionally organized bodies with leaders. That said, it is a great source of "godly" works.
919.
by chipsy 15y ago
It's hard to say. Microsoft can push out new products with splashy announcements, TV ads, etc. Similarly, they can afford to do "proper engineering" these days. But Microsoft as a startup, and as a growing company, was extremely unscrupulou
920.
by chipsy 15y ago
Similar to my thoughts lately. We have a UI problem to solve, not a paradigm problem. We don't want provability or inference as the first approach to problems - slapping something together with a mix of mutable/functional code is Good Enoug
921.
by chipsy 15y ago
It would be nice if we collected this kind of data for social news sites so that we can put a pulse to the "xxx is dying" meme.
922.
by chipsy 15y ago
I think creative job postings pose a sort of marketing problem. Everyone knows that for brief "moments in history," workplaces can turn into ridiculously exciting, creative places. But, of course, those periods never last forever. Eventuall
923.
by chipsy 15y ago
This is my experience(not coming from a poor family, but from closely knowing poor friends at various times) as well. Even if you mean the best for yourself, after growing up in an impoverished environment, you get trapped in a prison of yo
924.
by chipsy 15y ago
They aren't doing fair business. Either they have customers or funding lined up, or you take an even split. A guy who gets paid $7000 to build the site is not the guy that keeps the servers running, is not the guy that backs up the database
925.
by chipsy 15y ago
Related: I've been adding a bit of white vinegar to meals as a way to lower the effective GI of carby foods. Seems to work pretty well.
926.
by chipsy 15y ago
A lot can be done post-launch to differentiate, though. They might have a headstart, but you probably have more of the vision lurking in the wings, beyond whatever you've pitched to people.
927.
by chipsy 15y ago
Consultants.
928.
by chipsy 15y ago
Nutrition isn't the only issue. Hunter-gatherers have a much higher chance of a violent death; not just because of the risks of hunting, but because tribal warfare drafts the majority of able-bodied men. Even the ritualized warfare commonl
929.
by chipsy 15y ago
All economies are built on some combination of trust, fakery, coercion and hard work. The underlying rationale of a currency backed by "real material" is that it can be trusted to last. It can be trusted more than any government. Government
930.
by chipsy 16y ago
Language bigot calls others language bigots. Film at 11.

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