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by dicroce 12y ago
Here's a thought experiment. Lets say we lived in a world without SQL and the default way to talk to DB's was through an ORM.... And then someone came and said: "I created this concise and super flexible language for querying
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by dicroce 12y ago
Yeah, you failed... but you put yourself out there... that's what really living is all about.
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by dicroce 12y ago
Freedom is cyclical... When oligarchs rule, they unknowingly give power to anyone who will appeal to the mob... Whoever picks up that power will claim it's for the "good of the people", and the people will gladly trade their
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by dicroce 12y ago
If you were building a sandcastle, a type system is like plastic forms in the shape of castle components (walls, towers, etc)... They help you create a better sandcastle... This article was essentially saying: "You can remove the forms
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by dicroce 12y ago
From the same process? Is there better documentation for this issue somewhere?
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by dicroce 12y ago
I've always wanted something like this to. Only, I suspect that lists are only one possible form of information that needs to be organized. I also think users should be able to shape trees (and maybe others). Maybe you encourage vistor
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by dicroce 13y ago
I keep my code portable to Windows soley for the purpose of getting to use the Visual Studio debugger. Likewise, Windows developers should write portable code so they can use valgrind.
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by dicroce 13y ago
So, shouldn't it have just been a divide by 10?
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by dicroce 13y ago
If the time was in tenths, why would you multiply it by 1/10 to get seconds? Shouldn't you be multiplying it by 10 to get seconds? update: Ahh, I get it. You'd need to divide it by 10 to get seconds.
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by dicroce 13y ago
Here's the thing: I believe that millions of years of evolution have baked into every living thing a deep need to work, and we'll feel bad if we don't (because for millions of years lazyness meant death). We need to struggle.
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by dicroce 13y ago
One thing that crosses my mind whenever I imagine creating a human level intelligence is that it takes humans YEARS of constant stimulation to begin to exhibit intelligent behavior... Sometimes I wonder if we'll have the algorithm may
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FlappyBot turns Flappy Bird into a driving game.(youtube.com)
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by dicroce 13y ago
Does it use the STL? The STL will throw. Does it use the new operator? new will throw unless you specifically tell it not to.
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by dicroce 13y ago
Also check out ltrace... Shows the calls to other libraries the process is making... I'd also like to point out that a key to using strace successfully is the result column... Programs that fail often make system calls that fail right
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by dicroce 13y ago
This is a great book for 3 reasons: 1) Abrash is actually a good writer. Sometimes, I read the beginnings of chapters just for the stories he tells. 2) It's full of algorithms. Sure, you probably won't be writing your own triangle
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by dicroce 13y ago
I agree with his main point, but to be honest, on most of the games I've worked on I've had something playable very fast (1 or 2 weeks)... Its all the details beyond basic gameplay that take all the time and really make delivering
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by dicroce 13y ago
I use Wikipedia nearly every day. I have learned a great many things that I am able to immediately apply in my work (recent example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyer_moore )... I guess its just a coincidence that this
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by dicroce 13y ago
The art of solving the problem in question and ONLY the problem in question.
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by dicroce 13y ago
Everything you said is true. But so is the fact that people are starting to die of things that just a few years ago were curable.
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by dicroce 13y ago
This is what I'm doing. I'm actually looking forward to having a real machine connected to my TV (for lots of reasons besides Steam)...
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by dicroce 13y ago
Too many older developers are carrying around biases today that used to be true (like the performance issue you pointed out).
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by dicroce 13y ago
This is a pretty basic article, but might be useful for some. One point I take issue with: a pointer in C is not simply a variable containing an address. It also knows (at compile time) how big the object pointed to is and so increments and
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by dicroce 13y ago
I remember the Denthor tutorials! Downloaded from a BBS, learned the basics of graphics programming... Mode 13h... :) I emailed Denthor once and thanked him (shortly after I got my first job in '96).... I have the Black Book as well, g
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by dicroce 13y ago
So, if Android products are banned in the US, that doesn't change the fact that they would continue to be sold elsewhere in the world, right? And if so, wouldn't it be likely that you could pay to have an Android imported (perhaps
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by dicroce 13y ago
The good news is that apparently the Japanese aren't having sex anymore, so maybe the ocean around Japan will soon get a bit of a break: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6579294
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by dicroce 13y ago
I want to hold a sheet of it and turn it on its side... to see if I can see a one atom thick edge (I'm betting I cant!).
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by dicroce 13y ago
Couldn't agree with this more. I worked at startups first, and I think I would have been much better off getting a decent amount of experience under my belt first.
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by dicroce 13y ago
I don't use exceptions for normal flow. I use them for errors. While it is true that exceptions create innumerable code paths through a function, RAII makes that manageable. If you're not taking advantage of RAII in your C++ code,
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by dicroce 13y ago
What a grim world you live in.
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by dicroce 13y ago
I got news for Google. What stopped me from rooting my iPhone was a pretty vibrant app store... that I would lose access to. Given that I already have multiple ways to do Netflix and Youtube on my TV, I'll root my chromecast and run so

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