dmytroi

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by dmytroi 9y ago
Being free (or open) source have nothing to do with security: Linux/BSD still have 0day rootkits, yet all source is available, modern JS software have all tracking in the world, yet all source is available (VSCode telemetry). Even RISC
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by dmytroi 9y ago
I agree, it's not as simple as yes/no. I find that creating new software usually is not that expensive, but maintaining it is: dependencies update, new language versions, new formats, new requirements, etc. In my experience burden
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Should_I_write_new_code.txt(gist.github.com)
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by dmytroi 9y ago
Fully agree with this. I know people who were developing 3G/4G base stations at Ericsson, and as they say: the only right way to check if implementation is correct - to test if your phone connects to it or not.
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by dmytroi 9y ago
Honestly, I don't see how open/free software can fix it. For example google analytics is commonly used through web, source code of the tracker is available as raw text in javascript, and where is the promise of open/free soft
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by dmytroi 9y ago
Yes, but it's not as obvious as it sounds. For example let's say we have dev A and dev B and we give them same task. Dev A solves the task in such way that we don't need to come back to the solution at all, it "just work
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by dmytroi 9y ago
Nice post! I worked in a few big and small companies, and from I can see software companies with more then ~40-50 devs don't scale well (I only talk about about single-ish product software companies here). The reason for this is in my
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by dmytroi 9y ago
After moving to Stockholm, Sweden at least 3 espresso based drinks per day (mostly cappuccino), sometimes up to 5-6 cups. Winter is hard here.
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by dmytroi 9y ago
Make provides awesome UX: in most cases you just type "make" and stuff just works, but there is a tradeoff: it's nearly impossible to write a crossplatform make file. Why you ask? Try copying a file (or directory) from one lo
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by dmytroi 9y ago
It highly depends on a direction, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-force#/media/File:Human_line...
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by dmytroi 9y ago
Great question! To make things even more annoying - C doesn't have namespaces. So people are forced to write long names like "my_struct_hash_map_t" everywhere, which makes all modern C code look like wall of text (compare too
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by dmytroi 9y ago
One of the reasons why I switched from C++ to C professionally (I do C for living) was build times: previously kind of big casual game took 5-10 minutes to compile and around 10-20 sec incremental build, and now my C project takes 5 second
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by dmytroi 9y ago
This! I've started to look for usable vector image format for game development somewhere in 2004, now it's 2017 and there is still nothing available. For SVG you literally need to pull-in whole browser engine, which is most likely
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by dmytroi 9y ago
But can you reuse UX? UX on Android and iOS are completely different, which implies different UI, which in the end of the day implies different codebase. I do believe that it's possible to implement an app indistinguishable from native
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by dmytroi 9y ago
Glad to see one of the best C++ IDE's getting even better. The best part of it: even after all this years of active development and improvements it still feels very lightweight, it's more like sublime in terms of speed, when other
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by dmytroi 10y ago
You can make a pong game easily on FPGA and VGA output, no CPU needed :)
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by dmytroi 10y ago
Awesome! This is also very visible in touch based interfaces, especially in scrolling. I did a video with high speed camera to show how laggy real interfaces are https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EhJo2OPR44
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by dmytroi 10y ago
Uber as an experience is nothing new, IIRC eastern Europe had this model for ages: the company accepts client requests, the company posts request to drivers, fastest driver accepts and gets the requests, after the ride client pays drivers d
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by dmytroi 10y ago
Not a blind dev, and would love to help community as much as possible, though I don't even know where to start :( Would be really helpful to have centralized place which directs developers effort to valuable open source projects. Anoth
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by dmytroi 10y ago
Currently Sweden is on a race to be first cashless society: many shops completely stopped accepting cash (many also started to use iZettle [1]), people usually simply don't carry cash with them, and if it happens that you need to send
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by dmytroi 10y ago
C already survived 44 years, so only 84 to go :)
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by dmytroi 10y ago
Well, considering game industry experience with OpenGL on Windows (which is in short - it doesn't work on production scale) as a game developer I, unfortunately, really doubt that it will gain any traction on Windows based platforms.
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by dmytroi 10y ago
I might be harsh to say it, but current vulkan/spir-v tooling is more like a toy than production ready. If one need to convert HLSL to GLSL then one probably will use something like https://github.com/James-Jones/H
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by dmytroi 10y ago
So first you develop your game for Windows on DirectX, and than you make a port to OSX/iOS/Android using OpenGL, and than if you're lucky you make a port to XBox and PS4, maybe WiiU. Graphics pipeline rendering code is really
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by dmytroi 10y ago
Of course they do, but under NDA, just ask. OpenGL on top of whatever GAPI is on target platform is usually <100 KLOC, so completely possible to write your own if you REALLY need to (really is when your 1kk+$ budget game will fail just b
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by dmytroi 10y ago
What's annoying for me that's for other people (non-asylum, non-EU) the system is very bureaucratic and usually not so supportive, for example for someone from post-soviet country it might take up to a year to get a working permit
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by dmytroi 10y ago
I might be too old fashioned, but the only case where some sort of memory management is pleasant and comfortable - constructing/modifying strings, though even here many languages separate mutable and immutable strings into different be
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by dmytroi 10y ago
Might be unpopular opinion, but I kinda like to look how people introduce will-be-a-problem-in-the-future things (let's say GC) and than heroically are solving following problems (pause-less GC), it's like Don Quixotes of modern a
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by dmytroi 10y ago
Qt was really stable for last years, indeed Qt 3.x -> Qt 4.x was a painful migration, but they learned their lesson and Qt 4.x -> 5.x was pretty much as smooth as it gets. For simple apps you can mostly migrate from 5.0 all the way up
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by dmytroi 10y ago
Far Manager http://www.farmanager.com/index.php?l=en - works perfectly, still have this Norton Commander feeling from 80-x.

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