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by fat0wl 13y ago
still i think you would expect the svn project would use svn :D otherwise it's a pretty treacherous admission of a codebase being legacy only
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by fat0wl 13y ago
yea been wondering about this as well.. basically usage in general. i've been thinking its a cheap-skate way to get private repos for free on github... XD but really the ideal use case would be to be able to keep passwords & sensit
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by fat0wl 13y ago
the minutia of most efficiently optimizing your syntactic sugar to communicate DEEEEP meanings is the most annoying part of the open-source/language community & one of the biggest factors in why i've actually come to like corp
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by fat0wl 13y ago
to chalk stuff like this up to selection bias is ridiculous... wouldn't every product on the site have equally bad reviews then? hashtag apple-fanboy-armchair-social-science
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by fat0wl 13y ago
yea no argument there i just only have 1 or 2 clients a year who do closed-source git so $100 seems like a lot given that i am usually the sole dev
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by fat0wl 13y ago
> Further, /sys/fs/cgroup is just an umbrella for all cgroup hierarchies, there is no recommendation or standard for my own cgroup location. I think the key is just this bit & wanting to develop standards in the Linux
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by fat0wl 13y ago
ditto, except once they became low-level mgmt instead of letting people work around them they put a chokehold on all information flow for the sake of take the credit / shifting the blame, & eventually the project basically got scra
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by fat0wl 13y ago
yup this comment trail is pretty dead-on. The problem with web dev (I've thought about this a lot) is really that the browser is kindof the hinge. So no matter what you do for unifying languages, even porting modules so they're sa
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by fat0wl 13y ago
yup i kindof had this same realization as well once cuz i didn't want to sign up for private repos after i'd left the company that paid github subscription... hard to recreate the logic tho O.o but it was something in the vein of
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by fat0wl 13y ago
wasn't something like this made in the early days of chromecast & they either shut it down or it broke due to a firmware update? i think it was to stream video content from your personal network to chromecast hm...... i've bee
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by fat0wl 13y ago
i ran into trouble in a master's programming for going sans powerpoint for a final presentation. Just dove into code & started showing things, illustrating concepts & showing classes/methods. Needless to say i got a little
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by fat0wl 13y ago
yea i dont doubt it would be complex & to build an upsampling sprite rendering engine you'd have to understand all this stuff. With old games like this it would probably involve some manual work cuz you'd have to recompose ima
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by fat0wl 13y ago
now that mt gox is all effed up a US exchange's name counts as a news headline?
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by fat0wl 13y ago
i dont understand, as long as you figure out how to get the sprites into the right formats this would be immensely computationally cheaper ("time-saving"?) than post-processing every frame
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Yeah corporate consultancies are great. Rates are good. Only have to search for new projects when you feel like it. Time for freelancing on the side. Takes a little time to adjust to the varying paces of diff corps (some real slow, some rea
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by fat0wl 13y ago
you're right on about this stuff. someone once told me "yeah rails is great except the libraries have fugly internals" but it's trueeee I prefer scripting languages to Java but there are a few of them available on the JV
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by fat0wl 13y ago
it's funny i probably won't give that much actual tech advice here but will relate a little anecdote. I was once asking in a forum about moving from RoR to Clojure, trying to calm my nerves, and some Clojure dev straight up asked
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by fat0wl 13y ago
yea this attitude is a BIG part of the reason i switched to Java. If you learn some common Java design patterns (ahem... program to interfaces) then all of a sudden the magic of Ruby doesn't seem to add that much (in fact the data-bind
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by fat0wl 13y ago
lol yea i bought this for.... $7.50 and got the DLC bundle (which sucked) for about 5 IIRC
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by fat0wl 13y ago
eh i think in sufficiently complex projects its difficult to alter no matter what language it's done in.... its not like if we had RoR versions of every software we would be living in a utopia. In my experience, readability doesn'
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by fat0wl 13y ago
thats cool, i didnt know GO does that (bought it during xmas sale, haven't even played yet). its nice to be back in the PC world. my friend gave me an xbox360 & i was playing that for a bit but now instead of a console i have gefor
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Its especially sad i think because old-school PC gamers probly remember when COD2 & the like were very DIY, moddable titles for nerdy WW2 enthuiasts. Now they are a massive corporation with nothing moddable & the balls to sell simpl
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Yeah to those who see it as some catch-22 that was forged at the dawn of man, sure might as well "legitimize" IAP... For others, like myself & Phaus, apparently, we'll just play a different damn game. I think the disconne
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by fat0wl 13y ago
o ok i was taking your comment within the context of the post -- more like "why not allow jQuery as a dependency for an open source lib". sorry for misread
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by fat0wl 13y ago
i do Enterprise work & if we have jQuery in a page IBM dismisses our PMRs when we submit issues. So yeah I regularly include some simple cross-browser-normalizing js functions to use with the vendor-approved libs. Also, jQuery is not tr
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by fat0wl 13y ago
(I can't reply to jessedhillon's follow-up comment yet & i don't want to wait so I'll just reply here....) If you look as far as... oh say, the top of this thread on HN, you will hear accounts from people who have ap
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by fat0wl 13y ago
when there is a believable story about them getting socially hacked & they have a sea of clients they are trying not to lose...
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by fat0wl 13y ago
yea the upwards pricing model has this strange assumption that indie games will get a cult following, whereas in reality there are not a ton that have much replay value. i consider Fez to be one of the better indie games I've encounter
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by fat0wl 13y ago
just want to drop another vote against against significant whitespace... i find it slows down my coding because rather than coding & then quickly tidying i instead have to obsess over this tidying at every step or the code won't wo
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by fat0wl 13y ago
yah they should just work out some learning method to pick out stuff that looks odd & offer to clean it up. But i believe then it would require a thin layer of oversight and Google of course will not want to get involved. Apple clearly

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