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by dogprez 9y ago
I love Amigas but seems like their fate was sealed by then. By the release of Doom in 1993 it was over for sure. Their whole shtick was that they had special hardware that let them do things PCs couldn't. Doom proved them wrong.
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by dogprez 9y ago
Reminds me of Raymond Feist's Riftwar Cycle. The Tsurani's planet was devoid of metal so they had all wooden armor and weapons... uncomfortable silence
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by dogprez 9y ago
I saw my cousin and my aunt both go through fertility problems. My aunt was about your age when they adopted a little girl, it was a very happy story and the daughter just left home for college this year. My cousin and her husband fought
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by dogprez 9y ago
Michigan has be fighting a similar fight for the past couple decades. Wetlands were disappearing quickly from development and they realized how important they were to environmental health, essentially turning the state into a sponge/f
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by dogprez 9y ago
Remember there are different scales, too. Those 12 notes aren't the only notes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_(music)
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by dogprez 9y ago
Thanks for finding it. Here's my attempt at a tldr: Teaching with analogy is bad because it robs students of jumps in understanding. By scaffolding new concepts on things they already know they are losing the opportunity to learn how
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by dogprez 9y ago
If I had to guess why, I'd say that I am mostly self taught and more of an extrovert. It's probably the only way my brain could trick me into sitting in front of a computer all day instead of talking with other people. I also pl
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by dogprez 9y ago
Somewhat tangentially, I really like the cartoons Lin has made. I’ve found I’ve naturally anthropomorphized code. Often when I start working with someone new they get confused when I start talking about constructs like people. I think it
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by dogprez 9y ago
Cool, I'll check it out. I have a few lisp projects in the works. I started making a simple lisp operating system for 16-bit intel by forking MikeOS, which is an awesome project (didn't get that far). Then I developed a Forth V
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by dogprez 9y ago
> Maybe this will let me live vicariously through someone who has actually built the project I always dream of creating in my free time. You too!?
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by dogprez 9y ago
Cool project. I think what they were talking about is demonstrated here. For example, in Construct when you want to add an action to an event you click the add button then a wizard pops up to help you assign it. If you know how to progra
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by dogprez 9y ago
How is this suppose to be able to wipe out Texas or France?
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by dogprez 9y ago
NES cartridges also could have their own hardware too. Don’t like the NES sound card? You could ship your own inside of the cartridge. I think notoriously castlevania 3 shipped some custom hardware in their cartridge. Some of the cartri
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by dogprez 9y ago
I was once got a chance to describe to a class of kids in Marin County what programming is. They were maybe 10 years old. I used the analogy of a robot that does exactly what you tell it to do. A little girl raised her hand as asked, &qu
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by dogprez 9y ago
We could get rid of genetic diseases without editing the genome. Just screen embryos before IVF.
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by dogprez 9y ago
I'll add too that most of the software bypassed the APIs and ran at a low level. Amiga would have had a difficult time updating their architecture without invalidating all their software.
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by dogprez 10y ago
Why are accounts a problem? Because kids are always forgetting their passwords? My understanding is that chromebooks are pretty popular in schools now, they require passwords.
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by dogprez 10y ago
Exactly, the C=64 begged you to create something when it booted up to a BASIC prompt. We've come 2 steps forward 1 step backward with current devices. More kids have these in their hands, but they are harder to create with than ever.
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by dogprez 10y ago
Sure, there is this book "The Lazy Dungeon Master" ( http://slyflourish.com/lazydm/ ). Dungeon World also has advice on how to do something similar with its "Fronts" ( http://www.dungeon
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by dogprez 10y ago
There are techniques for writing for role-playing games that are a hybrid of planning/winging. You want to plan a hook, how the story get's started, who are the main agents and their motivations, then you just let the story unfol
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by dogprez 11y ago
Awesome, fasttracker 2 and qbasic were the most formative programs of my youth. I'll upvote anything to do with fasttracker 2 all day.
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by dogprez 12y ago
I think you got confused when the C standard library was listed as a dependency. What is meant is the resulting binary had a link to a dynamic library (libc). For example if you are on a Mac run "nm /usr/lib/libc.dylib
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by dogprez 12y ago
Your example isn't exactly true. Clang and GCC both do tail call optimizations. Compiling language functions to C functions doesn't 100% preclude you from TCO. http://david.wragg.org/blog/2014/02/
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by dogprez 12y ago
Musk's businesses are split between LA and SF. He and his employees travel back and forth and he wants to use it.
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by dogprez 12y ago
I believe it. I surprised myself playing with the Atari ST instead of the Amiga. The emulator for Atari ST seemed nice. Also while computers have surpassed the Atari ST and the Amiga in almost every front, the Atari ST is supposedly hard
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Programming the Atari ST 20 Years Later(voidbred.com)
25 points by dogprez 12y ago|14 comments
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by dogprez 13y ago
I play around with this a bit, a few things I learned is that XCode 5.0's llvm crashes when compiling Gambit-C 4.7.0's generated C code. The beta for 5.1 has a fix. Here are a few demos that might help a few people: scheme REPL
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by dogprez 14y ago
There are no bozos, just elitists. I prefer a respectful anarchy to an oligarchy.
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by dogprez 14y ago
I've taken some time to consider this issue myself. As other posters have noted its impossible to stop in a system where data is transmitted. I prefer living in a world with free communication (with a channel for criminals) than living in
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by dogprez 14y ago
I actually do believe it is a human right to have access to all the art and knowledge. Other people seem to think so too, thats why we have public libraries. I don't know what the solution here is but good things are happening like Spotif

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