davidsiems

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by davidsiems 16y ago
Cool writeup :) I would also add that you need to be intimately familiar with your bike (startup) if you're going to succeed. Every bike you ride is different, the clutch, the steering, braking distance, all of that varies and knowing exact
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by davidsiems 16y ago
For game development at least I've found that a 10 minute phone interview with simple 'these are things you must know or I will not hire you' questions works wonders for screening. I like to think of it as a bounding volume check for the po
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by davidsiems 16y ago
http://lesswrong.com/lw/im/hindsight_devalues_science/
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by davidsiems 16y ago
I'm not arguing that the posts are on topic. What I'm saying is that you have no control over the so called 'thoughtless upvoters'. If you start flagging. They will start flagging, even if it's just out of spite. I'm not taking sides here
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by davidsiems 16y ago
'Perhaps I'd like to see people a little quicker with the "flag" button; perhaps I'd like to see the site tuned so that flaggers can more easily win the race against thoughtless up-voters.' What happens when the 'thoughtless upvoters' find
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by davidsiems 16y ago
Then it sounds like it's time for an experiment. Take the code he posted with the article, and modify it to use a box-frustum check instead. Don't forget to test the program's performance before you make any modifications so you'll have som
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by davidsiems 16y ago
A sphere-frustum check is a lot cheaper than a box-frustum check. The spherical test only has to check the distance of a single point to the frustum, a box intersection test is much more complex. There are some false positives, but as with
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by davidsiems 16y ago
I have to disagree. The language spec and the docs on the Lua website are well written but the VM itself is a mess. It's a trainwreck of ambiguously named variables, minimal documentation, and overuse of macros to force inline code. The L
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by davidsiems 16y ago
Get a job. Don't view getting a job as failing. There's a lot you can learn from the experience. Both in terms of what to do and what not to do. Don't view it as 'making your parents happy'. It's more about independence and self-sustainabi
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by davidsiems 16y ago
This whole debate is getting wildly out of hand. Just because someone says 'I don't unit test' doesn't mean they're not testing their code. Most code spends 80% of its execution time in 20% of the code. Test that code and fix the outlying
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by davidsiems 16y ago
Follow your heart. Whatever you're passionate about - do that. I personally love programming because I get to create and build whatever I can dream up. Give CS a shot, you might find that it's a really good fit. If not, don't get too discou