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by chipsy 11y ago
I've used Nim, for a period of a few months. I didn't feel it was semantically that clean, just extremely terse. It has an enormous number of features. Some make good advertisement but are not implemented in a comprehensible, well
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by chipsy 11y ago
A hole in the "USA out innovated" premise is that Silicon Valley was based on military spending. See Steve Blank's "Secret History" series for examples. And, speaking more generally, the U.S. Department of Defense i
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by chipsy 11y ago
It really shouldn't be this false dichotomy. We could have richer specifications for the bounds of numbers and the rules used to convert their formats. It's some kind of failure of imagination to not have that when arithmetic bugs
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by chipsy 11y ago
The level and breadth of skill you're describing sounds more in tune with someone who isn't calling themselves "just a designer". They'd have a broader digital arts background and advertise themselves as illustrator
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by chipsy 11y ago
I think you are both right in different ways. For an engineer, the problem can always be solved in new and more efficient ways, as long as new techniques appear. But from a product design standpoint, the optimum is hit when the solution for
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by chipsy 11y ago
This is a great companion to Arthur Melzer's "Philosophy Between the Lines". It has the subtext of answering how to convey an idea without also creating dangerously fanatical thought about that idea.
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by chipsy 11y ago
It really isn't. I've wandered onto random IRC channels and found myself bathed in realms of technical knowledge that simply don't come up here, and made more genuine connections. No one community is at the center of things.
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by chipsy 11y ago
That's as much because of the young age as anything else. When I was in my early 20's I still wanted an edge at literally everything. Conforming to that, of course you'll be championing your "career hacks" as hard a
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by chipsy 11y ago
I once browsed through the lyrical content of national anthems for common themes. The typical republic's theme consists of: "kill the tyrant, the people will rise, we will not be defeated." There are little variations among t
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by chipsy 11y ago
I go to the coffeeshop with paper and pens only. Then I try to kill the ideas around what I'm working on right then and there, using a UX-centric focus. I've realized that my personality centers this paper design process, and work
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by chipsy 11y ago
I think most such interview questions are informed by CS curricula, which also have only changed modestly since 1980(some new languages and tools). The elaborate pointer chasing structures available then have basically sufficed and are in m
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by chipsy 11y ago
When I realized that exposing configuration options is not DRY I was able to break away from most frameworks. Within the scope of your own project it's faster to change code, and once you do that you can start to customize it further.
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by chipsy 11y ago
I've also concluded that it's essential: Programming is the solution for the broadest space of problems in computing. If you can narrow the problem space to some finite number of goals and workflows, you have a viable application.
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by chipsy 11y ago
I used Leo for a solo game project - AS3 code - made over the course of about a year. I also took some notes with it during the same time. It was over five years ago now. I don't remember all the details of what I did, but: First of al
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by chipsy 11y ago
It makes it harder to make changes. The story you start telling is not what you end up with later, after you've completed all the non-trivial features and major assumptions have fallen through. Going back and fixing the story as you go
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by chipsy 11y ago
When people bring up arguments for parameterizing numeric bit width I kind of shrug now. You don't get debugged code for free when you change the declaration. You have to walk through all your arithmetic regardless - any sufficiently l
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by chipsy 11y ago
New hypothesis: The reason the U.S. leans conservative relative to other countries is lack of sleep.
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OTOH, this thread stands as evidence that quantity isn't the bottleneck for articulation.
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It's a fidelity problem. If you restrict yourself to very simple interactions and behaviors, you can make a Twine game and get the effect you're looking for without touching code. But then your scope gets more ambitious and you wa
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by chipsy 11y ago
Botting the whole game for perfection involves a huge number of permutations since it's a dynamic system. But fastest time is arguably a less complex problem than maximum score since fewer of the RNG events "matter" to time a
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by chipsy 11y ago
It could actually be very simple. At power on the coordinates are zeroed, but "fire" is not allowed until coordinates are adjusted again. This prevents the original situation, but allows a tactical decision like "fire on own
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by chipsy 11y ago
Once you add IDE and REPL support (Which Scala does) you need a storage layer as an optimization. Odersky spends most of the lecture time detailing resulting performance goals and effects on internals to support these features. This leads h
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by chipsy 11y ago
"Know thyself" is the advice that I've followed. When you're younger you tend to have identities and opinions that are like what you were indoctrinated into, and those things are not necessarily you. And so most people a
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by chipsy 11y ago
I'm modestly productive. I know a few exceptionally productive people. They did not learn how to do what they do, they just fell into being busy and didn't stop. Some of them attempt to push things farther(e.g. taking caffeine or
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by chipsy 11y ago
To put it dramatically, Haxe is a parasitic environment. It can't offer tooling quite as robust or exact as a ground-up language environment. In exchange it allows projects to change direction very rapidly and bolt together the union o
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There are many arguments made to support the case of global open borders. The main premise for worry comes from waves of destitute migrants overwhelming the infrastructure and natural carrying capacity of rich cities and dragging them down;
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by chipsy 11y ago
EMM386 only became the defacto standard for games around 1993 or so. Prior to that developers would purchase or create a solution from scratch to deal with the rapidly shifting PC development environment. A decent chunk of the market was st
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by chipsy 11y ago
As long as you have a healthy measure of anxiety to keep your skills current, and are sincerely concerned about the ramifications of your code, you'll be in the above-average range. It's entirely possible to land a coding job by b
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by chipsy 11y ago
I was allowed many hours on the computer(albeit often having to take turns with my brother), but I concur that the emotional labor of listening and understanding is the number one thing my parents never "got." As I got older, thei
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by chipsy 11y ago
Of course I disagree with the article. APIs are not the political problem, technology is. It's inherent in saying that you're going to "change the world," be "disruptive" or "revolutionary." When soft

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