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by dxhdr 8y ago
Speaking for myself, it was hard to appreciate a language like Racket until I had a few years of experience (5?) solving problems with imperative languages.
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by dxhdr 8y ago
Here's a practical, measurable definition of "organic": Less pesticide residue on produce. Farm animals which haven't been fed other animals, growth hormones, or antibiotics. Those are important qualities for food, no ne
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by dxhdr 8y ago
Oh yeah, Diablo was certainly engrossing. However I think there's a distinction between creating a fun game that happens to be addictive, versus architecting a game to be as exploitative as possible.
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by dxhdr 8y ago
I believe it's purely seeing lines that end with )))))))) that leads the OP's observation ("To me, how Lisp looks is its worst quality--the number of parentheses is just mind boggling"). You don't get that in a C-li
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by dxhdr 8y ago
Older games like Diablo were not engineered to maximize Day 1 / 7 / 28 retention rates. All mobile games today optimize for those metrics.
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by dxhdr 8y ago
Plus a 9.5% / 10.25% sales tax rate if you're fortunate enough to live in LA or Santa Monica. I believe SF is around there as well.
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by dxhdr 8y ago
My intent was to get at the moral and ethical implications of desiring to create a $100B company.
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by dxhdr 8y ago
> In 10 years there will be a dozen 1 trillion dollar companies. The number of $100B companies is going to explode as well. Devil's advocate, is that actually a good thing? Might be good for the consumer but not great for the labore
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by dxhdr 8y ago
Yeah, 1-10 million is actionable with a lot of hard work but 100B requires the world organizing around you. Eg having good timing, being fortunate, lucky, what have you. But hey if it happens to you, congrats. It was bound to happen to some
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by dxhdr 8y ago
> In a dynamic language you still have to mentally understand what the type of a function is. You can't just throw any data in to it and have it work. JavaScript would like a word with you.
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by dxhdr 8y ago
> As someone who has worked two jobs now writing, deploying, and operating Erlang clusters, I recommend switching to Rust. I'm surprised to read this, Erlang and Rust have almost nothing in common. It's understandable that BEAM
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by dxhdr 8y ago
Why aren't they benchmarking it against the latest Threadrippers? They've got a i9-7900X up there which costs the same as the 2950x.
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by dxhdr 8y ago
Or buy a ThinkPad X1 Extreme, it comes with a functioning keyboard including a dedicated escape key! Upgradeable RAM to 64GB and plenty of ports are a bonus.
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by dxhdr 8y ago
> I totally expected it to default to the assumption that eating the plastic is by default harmful via magic I agree, as an optimist I believe that consuming inorganic compounds is by default healthy! More seriously, I believe we should
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by dxhdr 8y ago
Fixed width fonts let you quickly parse syntax. Syntax and semantics are equally important when reading code, whereas semantics are generally the only thing you need for understanding the written language. That said, I haven't seriousl
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by dxhdr 8y ago
Fortnite is a service, not a product you can own. It's very much the same as Netflix, Gmail, or Dropbox. Given that, why should it be okay to hack Fortnite, but hacking Netflix or Spotify would be considered criminal behavior?
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by dxhdr 8y ago
This analogy is growing very thin. If you've got a business operating board games, and I start a business to flip your board games thus ruining your business, what recourse do you have? Hacking software and hacking an online service ar
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by dxhdr 8y ago
Good for Epic. Distributing hacks like this actively harms the game experience for everyone else and damages Epic's brand and business. It's not so dissimilar from DDoSing a SaaS company and encouraging others to do the same.
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by dxhdr 8y ago
> Imagine someone making paper boats out of a book, selling them for one dollar each and the book has 300 pages (but costs 20 dollars). Is making paper boats suddenly copyright infringement? Or breach of contract? This isn't a good
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by dxhdr 8y ago
It lost me until I came back and read this comment; I did not think to click "the email." The page reads as a standard newsletter subscription form so I just closed the tab.
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by dxhdr 8y ago
Block current ad tech and replace it with their own. Where does Brave hope to be in 10 years? Controlling the internet ad marketplace via their BAT token platform. Once the initial creators have earned their take and lost their will the pla
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by dxhdr 8y ago
> Tell your distant great grandfather, you know the small farmer in rural europe in the 1700s, that the cows just escaped the pen and see if he says "But its saturday evening, I'm off the clock". He probably would if they
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by dxhdr 8y ago
I thought the tl;dr was: Implementing B-trees as an embeddable library in C is hard, therefore Rust is faster.
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by dxhdr 8y ago
> It takes decades to build a reputation but it can be destroyed overnight with a single tweet. To be more accurate it was a series of Tweets, each expanding the narrative and doubling down on the original statement: - "Shareholders
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by dxhdr 8y ago
The article claims that "there's a new performance hack taking hold in the NFL — going vegan," mentioning Tom Brady as an example. Article later clarifies that "though not vegan, his personal diet is reportedly 80 percen
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by dxhdr 8y ago
> If a function is "referentially transparent" or "pure" it can't do anything unexpected. Sure it can; at a minimum all functions consume compute resources. A tiny change in a "pure" JavaScript function
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by dxhdr 8y ago
Science has long established friendship as a distinctly human-human interaction consisting only of the purest non-incentivized intentions.
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by dxhdr 8y ago
> I would imagine the item now has to be sold at a massive discount, recycled, or simply thrown away, so to them it's probably 100% loss when you include things like shipping. I've received numerous "new" items that w
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by dxhdr 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_pa... Looks like the US is the largest trading partner with China, how much leverage do you need? How long would it take a "unified bloc" to agree on
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by dxhdr 8y ago
That narrative doesn't quite align with the article stating that "for various reasons none of his friends were able to join the business." In retrospect all of Houston's friends made a huge mistake! Maybe Ferdowsi was ti

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