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by et1337 9y ago
You discredited the article because it said people used protective glasses to watch the eclipse? I'm not an "eclipse veteran", I don't know anything about it, but my feed was nothing but eclipse glasses for three whole d
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by et1337 9y ago
I've also used DuckDuckGo for years now, often for programming questions, and the handful of times I've resorted to !g it was 50/50 as to whether Google had better results.
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by et1337 9y ago
This article desperately tries to pin the thought leader phenomenon on billionaires, but I don't buy it. Billionaires are certainly susceptible, but plenty of poor people believe this stuff too. The article even tries to cleanly separa
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by et1337 9y ago
CSV has no formatting. Who wants to resize columns and set up text wrapping every time you open the file. Could save it as .xlsx and then export to CSV, but that's another step and it's not hard to parse simple spreadsheets in XML
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by et1337 10y ago
Because bindings[10] might have triggered a process that removes bindings 7-9, causing "i" to be out of bounds of the array. I wanted to continue updating the remaining bindings even if some of them got removed.
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Thirteen Years of Bad Game Code(etodd.io)
399 points by et1337 10y ago|160 comments
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by et1337 10y ago
My father went through the same exact experience with psoriatic arthritis. Between dieting and medication he's been able to handle it, but it's always there. He can't really grip tightly with his hands anymore. It sucks, but
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by et1337 10y ago
Thousands of details like the lamp bumping come together to make the movie. To quote Mr. Plinkett: "you didn't notice it, but your brain did".
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by et1337 10y ago
Vimium on Chrome is pretty good.
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by et1337 10y ago
Cached text-only version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...
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by et1337 10y ago
I think the idea is to get a smaller house in the city. I've been reading a blog called McMansion Hell lately (highly highly recommended), and it has a great article detailing some of the pitfalls of large, affordable suburban homes [1
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by et1337 10y ago
Unpopular opinion: we techies overestimate AI. > So why is it that, despite each of us having a wealth of experience with people being unapologetically bad at their jobs, we still feel that humans have set the bar so high that the same
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by et1337 10y ago
Only about 10 percent of US prisons are privately owned.
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A Pictorial History of Suburbia(mcmansionhell.com)
1 points by et1337 10y ago|0 comments
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by et1337 10y ago
People seem to be plugging font generator websites, so here's what I use and highly recommend: http://fontastic.me/
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by et1337 10y ago
He started with two backends. One generates bytecode for an internal interpreter, and this is still needed because all Jai code can be run at compile time. The other backend generates C code, but it's a temporary measure. He just added
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by et1337 10y ago
Even if this weren't a fallacious argument, he's actually in the process of replacing Thekla's C/C++ workflow with a custom language called Jai.
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by et1337 10y ago
I was homeschooled by a typical unqualified mom who "brainwashed" us with the crazy anti-evolution stuff everyone is so terrified of. That one tiny topic doesn't invalidate your entire education. Most people couldn't tel
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by et1337 10y ago
Don't stress about it too much. Even people who protect their ears can end up with it, and others who don't never experience it. Also don't stress about it because stress generally worsens the tinnitus!
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by et1337 10y ago
Very cool. Just curious, what was your marketing plan? How much time did you spend on marketing?
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by et1337 10y ago
Sure you can edit a finished, mixed song, but it takes a lot of skill, and realistically no one's going to do it without stems. If a song is an executable, it can expose user-friendly adjustable parameters. So one song could have infi
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by et1337 10y ago
My friend and I have a crazy idea that in the future, all songs will be binary executable code running in a sandbox similar to Vx32 or NaCl. This would allow you to edit parameters and change the song to fit the rest of your playlist. The n
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by et1337 10y ago
We are extraordinarily fortunate to have so many superb minimum wage fast-food workers. Their lower pay simply reflects the happy reality that we're blessed with a much larger supply of them.
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by et1337 10y ago
Eh. Inexperienced programmers will find a way to screw things up somehow. Probably by over-engineering, like the original article describes.
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by et1337 10y ago
> using public fields in a non trivial project is a sure receipt for disaster. This is just dogma. Every Python project in existence has 100% public fields. Some are disasters, some are beautiful. Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
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by et1337 10y ago
These are not the most compelling tools to begin with. I know how to use Git and markdown, but I still use Google Docs for most things. The key differentiating feature of programming is interactivity, and the most interactive programs are g
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by et1337 10y ago
Completely agree, and it's surprising to see this in Nethack because game programmers almost unanimously shun exceptions. In games, you have a small number of functions that can tolerate failure, probably relating to IO. Everything els
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by et1337 10y ago
> No programmer writes a physics engine to produce glitches, so if they magically appear, even though they aren't visible in the spec, the spec language is faulty. I'm saying that popular physics engines generally have bulletpr
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by et1337 10y ago
I agree that many bugs occur due to state. I disagree that languages, particularly imperative languages (which you seem to be attacking here), are significantly responsible for bugs. Syntax is not really an issue for any programmer with a r
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by et1337 10y ago
I don't think it's that simple. A lot of bugs are the result of disparate pieces of code -- each of which is fairly easy to verify by reading it -- interacting in an unforeseen way.

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