elmindreda

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by elmindreda 16y ago
Games will force you to become a better software designer, provided that you want to produce readable code, since by their nature games want to rub every kind of data you have against every other kind.
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by elmindreda 16y ago
You don't master it, so instead I will write about what I did to learn reasonable amounts of it. I wrote lots of code, tried use it and then fed what I learnt back into the design. Repeatedly. I read tons of other people's code. Large, run
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by elmindreda 16y ago
Of the FOSS projects I maintain, all those intended for use by others are written in C. It is in my opinion still the best language for providing reusable code.
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by elmindreda 16y ago
Or it could be more complex than that, like for example people getting stuck in the area where they found their initial success. http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
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by elmindreda 16y ago
I'm stunned by the rigor.
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by elmindreda 16y ago
What happened to writing infrequently and being fine with that?
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by elmindreda 16y ago
So there's only one kind of smart now? One of the reasons I'm not an entrepeneur is that it involves dealing with people and money. I prefer dealing with code.
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by elmindreda 16y ago
Let me try. Real human beings are scarred for life by this "game". If that's not a consequence then I don't know what is.
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by elmindreda 16y ago
Maemo is missing.
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by elmindreda 16y ago
Clarke's first law.
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by elmindreda 16y ago
Now that it's clear that OpenGL isn't going away, fix WGL. It takes twice the amount of effort to use compared to other such APIs, and fixing it shows you care about standards.
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by elmindreda 16y ago
When they finally figure out that there's only a single sane person in the world, I hope he changes his name to Wonko.
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by elmindreda 16y ago
Sweden isn't the example it used to be, in this regard. We currently have a (relatively) right-wing government that's privatising services, cutting social safety nets and creating a low-wage job market. This is having the same effects it d
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by elmindreda 16y ago
The Swedish translates more closely as his position of power , not high status .
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by elmindreda 16y ago
A UI designed by a sane person, instead of the current soup of ancient dialogs, web-like dialogs and shiny dialogs with oddly sized buttons in random places.
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by elmindreda 16y ago
If the event is a demoparty, I'll just lock the screen. In other places, I'll usually bring my laptop along.
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by elmindreda 16y ago
Yes, the poll is technically quaternary, but the OP seems to ask a binary question. I'm sure that the poll would have been binary if HN supported it.
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by elmindreda 16y ago
The 2.7 release of GLFW (sort of like GLUT but different). http://www.glfw.org/
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by elmindreda 16y ago
Gender is a binary state now?
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by elmindreda 16y ago
There's no substitute for reading good C++ code, especially larger projects that still manage to be usable, maintainable and somewhat consistent. For example, the code of LLVM, Ogre, Box2D, bullet and the Second Life viewer, even though the
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by elmindreda 16y ago
He makes a valid point; i.e. if you write bad code, your code will be bad.
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by elmindreda 16y ago
Seminars About Long-term Thinking at the Long Now Foundation: http://longnow.org/seminars/ BBC World Service documentaries: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/
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by elmindreda 16y ago
A week of live Half-Life 2 reference art can't be wrong.
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by elmindreda 17y ago
It is a martial art; it's just not an Asian martial art.
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by elmindreda 17y ago
http://www.autistics.org/library/inertia.html
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by elmindreda 17y ago
Yes, because I used to write useful things.
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by elmindreda 17y ago
Soprano recorder, occasionally.
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by elmindreda 17y ago
2010 will be like 2009. The year of the desktop for Linux will keep on not arriving, but the Linux desktop offering will keep improving incrementally. Windows will continue to stagnate. Mac OS X will continue to innovate and the Linux deskt
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by elmindreda 17y ago
There are lots of such bugs, however, and fixing them takes decades of hard work. In the meantime, most people affected by said bugs, unwilling or unable to fight, need a place to hide.
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by elmindreda 17y ago
In addition to the Xcode tools, I use MacVim, MacPorts and iTerm. People who do more than quick edits with Vim on OS X should have a look at MacVim.

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