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by dottrap 11y ago
As for understandability, I used to work with a lot of EE people building various equipment that required both hardware/software. Everybody was smart, but not necessarily an expert in programming. We also used various programming langu
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There is also STB stretchy buffer, popular with game devs. https://github.com/nothings/stb/blob/master/stretchy_buffer....
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by dottrap 11y ago
The Google Go team lives in a completely different environment. Their perspective of performance is not the same as a game dev. Go 1.5 stated their goal was 10ms GC latency. A game loop is 16ms for a 60fps game. 10ms is not close to accepta
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by dottrap 11y ago
Agreed, but it also kind of assumes stories are actually important and integral to the video game. Most stories in the current dominant video games follow the John Carmack mantra of "Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It&
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by dottrap 11y ago
Here's a review from the other day. http://boilingsteam.com/one-week-with-brewmaster-steamos/ ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10105200 )
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by dottrap 11y ago
SteamOS officially launches in November. It's starting to get pretty good. Don't know about Wine.
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Is hands-free cell phone use really safer for driving? We asked MythBusters(washingtonpost.com)
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How the F.B.I. Made 'Winners Don't Use Drugs' the Arcade Motto of the '90s(inverse.com)
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Samsung Launches Free Trial Program for iPhone Users(engadget.com)
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Dash: A side project to learn how to make a programming language in C(dreamingofbits.com)
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“Metroid U” Created with Super Mario Maker(youtube.com)
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by dottrap 11y ago
Professor Roberto Ierusalimschy (creator of Lua), was bothered by the problems of regex deviating from (real) regular expressions, like how captures create non-determinism, back references make pattern matching algorithms NP complete, no fo
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by dottrap 11y ago
I've followed some bloggers who transitioned to videos. The common reason given was more people are interested in watching videos than reading, and they can monetize better.
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The press is generally protected. The Pentagon Papers of 1971, Edward Snowden, the recent Sony hacks.
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The actual title is "It isn't Easy to Remove the GIL", and everybody who knows about the GIL knows this. Guido changing his mind and saying otherwise would be big news, so this title "Guido:Easy to remove GIL" is
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by dottrap 11y ago
To clarify, 'Terrifying' was the article's title, not mine. I thought I'm not supposed to change it. The Daily Mail link had pictures for those who don't want to play video. Also, the Daily Mail link is trending bec
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by dottrap 11y ago
Indeed, experimenters have variously tried to separate the directories with trucks and military tanks. They’ve even used them to lift a car off the ground. I know Mythbusters did these experiments. Was there anybody else who did the
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Watch Google's terrifying humanoid robot running through a forest(dailymail.co.uk)
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by dottrap 11y ago
I love the cross-eyed ghost-monsters. I wonder what his original plan was for those.
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Honestly I kind of wonder why nobody has written a library that acts as a thin layer around and abstraction of native UI toolkits (AppKit, .NET, GTK+, etc) instead of a monolithic do-most-things-or-everything-yourself IUP is exact
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by dottrap 11y ago
Sounds like a good job for Lua. You can replace the glue logic with Lua. And then you can augment or replace the tests on a case-by-case basis. For tests that must be done in C, you can either leave them as is and drive them externally, or
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by dottrap 11y ago
One more thing. Be careful of "object oriented" design if you are thinking about shared libraries and re-usability. Depending on your definition of "object oriented" and the language you pick, it actually causes tighter
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And LuaJIT is also available for your platform too if you want blazing fast performance.
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by dottrap 11y ago
It sounds like you have more fundamental architecture issues. Language is mostly orthogonal to this and switching languages won't necessarily make anything better, though I personally find bash to be clumsy for writing anything large a
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Coincidentally, there is another thread going on right now, "A Eulogy for Objective-C". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10003438 Since Obj-C is considered a descendent of Smalltalk, it's pros and cons ar
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Obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/1266/
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Thus we cannot build general purpose tools to tell us if our program is correct as there is no general rigourus mathematical proof that we can apply. Any attempt would require heuristics which are not guaranteed to work.
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In short, Alan Turning proved these problems are "undecidable" for the general case (under our model/definition of computing, now know as the Turning Machine).
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Refer to "The Halting Problem" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem
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Be careful not to conflate web programming with plain-old JavaScript the language. A lot of the horrible bugs in web programming come from the massive complexity and size related to web browsers, the DOM, and over-engineered frameworks. If

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