dazzawazza

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   by dazzawazza 7y ago

   As a long term FreeBSD user I have to say that the Foundation has been great for me because they made it easy for me to donate money every year. I don't give a lot, only about $50, but I've donated every year because it's eas
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   by dazzawazza 7y ago

   This is just people: I make games. Players want 100 hours of unique experience, DRM free, DLC free and oh free. Plus they want all their features and bugs fixed or they threaten you. The reasons for this are complicated but just like FOSS,
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   by dazzawazza 7y ago

   If you think bars are just for people getting drunk then I think you are the one with the problem.
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   by dazzawazza 7y ago

   All of those professions do plenty of hours of "work" outside of "billable hours". They all read professional publications in order to keep up with the progress their professions are making. In many cases this is a few h
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   by dazzawazza 8y ago

   I still routinely use Nomad-BSD for poking about of machines... and my FreeNAS boots from a USB stick.
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   by dazzawazza 8y ago

   yep my game is on itch. It's a great community. The tools and the developer side of the website are very good.
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   by dazzawazza 8y ago

   I posted this to reddit but I'm more likely to get a reasonable discussion on here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-V_Z3bD_PA Dave covers "static" turning off a monitor in this video. Could it be this?
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   by dazzawazza 8y ago

   Thank you. musl looks very interesting. It's something I didn't consider, I'll add it to my research list :)
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   by dazzawazza 8y ago

   Not everyone is on Ubuntu. I currently have eight VMs each with different distros. Mostly it's for testing library compatability on install and input weirdness. That's a lot of testing.
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    by dazzawazza 8y ago

    As someone who has just released[1] a first access game across Windows, macOS and Linux: 10 years ago developing on linux as a game developer was way worse than windows and MacOS, now there is no real difference at all. I speak as a long ti
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    by dazzawazza 8y ago

    For me python's killer feature is readability years later. I've gone back to websites and tools YEARS later and the code as quick to pickup and easy to modify. 35 years of programming and I've never met a language so well int
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    by dazzawazza 8y ago

    I frequent mostly heavy metal pubs and for the last 5 years neither shazam nor sound hound has detected a single song for anyone near me. Complete crap. We've been using the ancient technique of asking the DJ on the way to the bar.
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    by dazzawazza 8y ago

    I love the idea that there is a scarcity of "golden skirts" that make this too hard. It presupposes that the current male members are all "golden trousers", the cream of the crop, the best of the best. I've met many
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    by dazzawazza 8y ago

    I don't know the politics of it all but I will say this. I am really sorry for Brazil's loss. Museums like this are the core of cultural memory and identity and should be cherished. I hope something can be salvaged from this. I&#x
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    by dazzawazza 9y ago

    "Every Changes Matter(tm)", is there a reason you've written this as opposed to "All Changes Matter" or "Every Change Matters"?
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    by dazzawazza 9y ago

    Ha no, I did Amiga application in 68K assembly language. MUI looks very modern compared to my Amiga experience :) I still miss the Amiga in general though. It was nice to have complete control over the machine, working in harmony with the O
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    by dazzawazza 9y ago

    It was so long ago that I used WxWidgets I'm not sure my opinion has value any more. Certainly 10 years ago it suffered from poor documentation (like most open source projects) but the Python bindings were very nice. Also Qt has a nice
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    by dazzawazza 9y ago

    I've not used swift yet but it looks very nice. Cocoa is still a very well designed and complete toolkit so I imagine it would be very productive.
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    by dazzawazza 9y ago

    I've coded desktop apps (mostly editors and tools for games) for 25 years across X (Motif toolkit), Amiga, TOS, DOS, MFC, Cocoa, Win32, WxWidgets, Fox Toolkit and Qt. Qt has by far been the best, most rewarding, most empowering experie
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    by dazzawazza 9y ago

    yep, level editor for our video game is written in C++/Qt. Wouldn't consider anything else really.
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    by dazzawazza 10y ago

    I worked on a bunch of Disney games during the PS1/2 era and I can add to this (but I was not employed by Disney): Even with the clout of Disney it was really hard to work with "professional" actors who were SO bad at doing t
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    by dazzawazza 10y ago

    Just let them go to voice mail. If it's important they'll leave a message.
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    by dazzawazza 10y ago

    As a Senior programmer, over the years, I've bought eight copies for Juniors to help them cope and learn to deal with other types of programmers (or stop being fucking hero-programmers). Should be mandatory reading IMHO.
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    by dazzawazza 10y ago

    I couldn't get to his idea to criticise.
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    by dazzawazza 10y ago

    For thousands of years humans have farmed with wolves near by. The Japanese used to use Akita to fend off wolves who are looking for the easiest, lowest risk source of calories. Seems to me that the Norwegians should ask the Sami people of
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    by dazzawazza 10y ago

    Sorry, the small refers to the physical volume of the meal.
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    by dazzawazza 10y ago

    I regularly fast for 20+ hours (calorie restriction, I do drink water because I am not an idiot) once or twice a week. You get very used to it. While its not something I look forward to, it's purely psychological. A few hours after I m
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    by dazzawazza 10y ago

    As someone who has used undocumented methods on many consoles and ALWAYS been caught by QA and told to remove them I'd love to know how they got away with this. Even on the PS1 where I used an undocumented graphics command to get a &#x
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    by dazzawazza 10y ago

    After 25 years of programming I'll give you the lesson my first boss gave me: "Think more, type less". It's stood the test of time, I've passed it on to many juniors.
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    by dazzawazza 10y ago

    This is regarded as a bit of a myth. Search for swords in this official PDF https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-information-offi... . MPs have never been able to carry weapons in to the chamber so if it was a ru