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by chipsy 11y ago
It's not documented and I don't want to read 200 lines of code.
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by chipsy 11y ago
Protectionist tariffs did, in fact, play a role in the action of the Great Depression. Such policies, which were adopted by many countries during this time, contributed to a drastic contraction of international trade. For example, U.S. imp
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by chipsy 11y ago
I'm optimistic about it, though I admit that I haven't tried it. Code written by a mob would have the benefit of receiving intensive review at the design phase. There wouldn't be many opportunities for a mob project to spiral
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by chipsy 11y ago
It can be done but it's quite expensive to engineer such a solution, both in time spent theorizing and in runtime performance consequences. There are many small gameplay features that are trivial with mutability and a data-oriented mod
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by chipsy 11y ago
At the core of XML you can still see the SGML origins. It is great stuff if you have an actual document to work on - like, documentation, or an essay, or a manual... there are some very comprehensive schemas and renderers around for those u
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by chipsy 11y ago
Image editing is one of those great examples of the workflows being so diverse that no generalized interface solution will be very good for all of them. What's tickling my brain at the moment is the idea that these complex apps might b
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by chipsy 11y ago
IFF is still relevant even now if you want a really straightforward binary blob package. There's almost nothing to it for basic parsing - just watch out for the byte alignment padding and endianness, and default to loading chunks by na
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by chipsy 11y ago
And I think he's heavily overrated because he presents well. For one thing, his basic premise is not really much different from Engelbart and Kay. For another, he doesn't propose specific processes or nuts and bolts design. The th
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by chipsy 11y ago
If seeking pleasure is dull and boring, then it must be a rather difficult task to sustain daily pleasure over a lifetime. Enlightenment, in comparison, has the notion of finishing built into it, and finishing at philosophy is a rather trou
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by chipsy 11y ago
The numbers are better than private automobiles driven by humans, but they cannot exceed the potential of trains and buses because of simple geometry: more space is used per person transited when they have to run as a fleet of small, indepe
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by chipsy 11y ago
Pascal will cover a few of your points and move you sideways on others. For example you do have a required forward declaration but it's all in a single module file. FPC is a good compiler and should cover most concerns around tooling.
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by chipsy 11y ago
I see Africa now like China in the late 80's or early 90's - the change is there, but the perceptions haven't shifted yet and anyone doing business there faces a situation of chaotic progress. A good place to be if you like e
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by chipsy 11y ago
I surveyed my own VSTs when I went to implement a synth UI knob and discovered that most actually behave like a y axis slider. A few, like Synth 1, will teleport the cursor to an actual slider as you start dragging. The ones that try to mak
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by chipsy 11y ago
Gender is - or was - convenient. With binary genders you have a convenient model to categorize people into different groups, in the same way that you can categorize by age, skin color, language, homeland, or religion. Politically, categorie
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by chipsy 11y ago
We're basically approaching the part of the Myer and Sutherland wheel of reincarnation[0] where the display processor is as powerful as the main processor and therefore it should all be folded back together. Of course, this turn was an
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by chipsy 11y ago
I don't think it's about the surface politeness factor, but about what kind of discussion is conducted. The ideal for an intellectual discourse is to have questions be responded to with more questions. If question is met with answ
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by chipsy 11y ago
Protest was once a thing that was mostly practiced on a local level, within the family and church, and subject to the constraints of small groups. It is now fully secularized and pushed into the hands of the masses. There is a subculture fo
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by chipsy 11y ago
The biggest change to my coding style in the past few years has been to opt out of the most expressive solution if it will fall apart in a cut-and-paste situation. Many new features are variations on old features. The incremental cost of im
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by chipsy 11y ago
The pyramid scheme analogy only holds true if you are paying in with money, not time. Other social networks are investments of time too. Testimony: I registered for Tsu and have been active on it a for a few days after reading that story. T
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by chipsy 11y ago
I'm a bit concerned about building up SV since it has a largely unresolved legacy of buried toxic waste...an irony standing in direct contradiction to the extreme desirability and real estate prices of today. I mean, it's not that
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by chipsy 11y ago
That only proves the point of the article: Mobile is still bad and has fundamental barriers to overcome. In the 1980's, the "obsolete the moment you buy it" and "expensive paperweight" jokes were commonly encountere
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by chipsy 11y ago
It's a whole-ecosystem issue. There are plenty of built-in features that happen to depend on GC, and while the ways to eliminate GC use are only increasing with time, the "idiomatic D style" is left in doubt when it's so
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by chipsy 11y ago
The way I got into synthesis was with Jeskola Buzz. [0] You can still use it today... Free and community-driven, it has lots of modules, some are unique and brilliant, just as many are dodgy and likely to crash. In terms of making electroni
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by chipsy 11y ago
Interaction accomplishes the browsing of information, just like scanning a picture or looking through a card catalog. And when folks make broad appeals to interactivity, they are saying that somehow the interaction of the gamepad is fundame
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by chipsy 11y ago
I would venture to guess that subsidies also drive our obsession with adding dairy products to everything.
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Life can't be defined by arriving at a place and feeling that you've "made it" or "gotten ahead." If you actually do "make it" by accident, the next thing that happens is that you die - in spirit, if
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by chipsy 11y ago
IMHO the basic fallacy of this essay is that ideology is not reality. It sets the goal to be communism as classically envisioned(worker's paradise), and only some people are absolutely convinced that that's the culture they want.
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by chipsy 11y ago
I think the advice re. competitors tends to be about "how much should you worry about what a competitor is doing _right now_" - and the answer to that is pretty much always "not a whole lot." You can have two businesses
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by chipsy 11y ago
It cheats a ton. You can turn misses into hits by carefully jiggling the camera. Still a great game though.
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by chipsy 11y ago
I've had the experience of understanding feedback loops perfectly well but still feeling inclined to blame a "big bad" for most ills. I had trouble developing an ethical basis for my actions because I swing across the politic

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