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by ffn 12y ago
Well, unless you're in a extremely third world shithole, or you're some sort of ridiculous statistical anomaly in the first world, the true secret to success is (and was) always determination, hard work, and patience. Unfortunatel
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by ffn 12y ago
Yes, I agree that the anal-retentive nature that these big firms go after copyright cases is reprehensible. And also that copyright law hinders as much creativity and progress as it supposedly serves to protect (especially the dumb shit sup
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by ffn 12y ago
This is the classic symptom of changing oneself to fit the mainstream once one hits the mainstream. Whether it's EA's fault of Maxis's fault is just fruitless finger pointing (it's EA's, these guys are literally the
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by ffn 12y ago
Hey... wait a minute... something seems oddly off about that Ted Talk. I mean it's really deep and my life was irreversibly changed afterwards, sure, but something seemed off about that particular Ted Talk you linked.
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by ffn 12y ago
This is one of the funniest tech-talks I've heard (the funniest is XOXO's lottery collective talk). Thanks OP.
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by ffn 12y ago
It's just a saying; a platitude like "get well soon", "just be yourself", or "employees must wash hands". Safety (really security in general) is top priority only after you've already knocked out user
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by ffn 12y ago
Most people don't view Stallman's words as gospel, he's actually kind of a running joke nowadays - a sort of the caricature of the software profession, all neckbeard, tin-foil, and wizard powers. And it is true a lot of Stall
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by ffn 12y ago
If you really don't want to fork someone else's existing repo, want to participate, but can't violate rules, you could always start a project on your account, do a ton of work on it, then start an organization, and have that
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by ffn 12y ago
I like to remind you that we, as mere lowly humans, require food grown on a farm to survive a lot more so than we need software or music. If we collapse our agricultural backbone and just willy-nilly decide to depend upon a foreign nation f
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by ffn 12y ago
Not just with the deaths of our dog robots, we feel loss whenever we take stock of how we and our world are changing. Take the case of nearly every single Chinese person still alive today. China has went from a large rural country with spra
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by ffn 12y ago
In more mathematical terms, the value a rec engine provides you looks like: value = k1 * users + k2 * products + k3 * products * users Prioritize building your rec engine feature after you've built user on-boarding features and product
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by ffn 12y ago
Looks like there is plenty of good what-to-do advice already, so I'll just give some how-to-do advice: Use the Teddy Roosevelt tactic of speak softly but carry a big stick (you already have one, since you're the engineer and the p
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by ffn 12y ago
Piggy-backing off of this, here's my short list of if-js-framework-were-languages: angular = php : obtuse and a little nonsensical at times, yet by far the most popular tool out there in industry. ember = ruby : highly decorative and a
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by ffn 12y ago
I really love that these game engines are doing this. As a hobbyist game dev with a day job and a night-shift (tfwgf), one of the biggest hurtles that keep me building on html5 instead of on desktop was the demand that I had to pay $$ upfro
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by ffn 12y ago
Because it auto filters out companies, recruiters, and HR staff who like fluff and politics, and retains the ones who are more direct and in-your-face. So if you're a person who is very good in a rigid social structure and placating fo
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by ffn 12y ago
In my opinion, if you're just a hobbyist programmer who want to experiment building games on the side, it makes more sense to build your MVP demo using humble html5 canvas (I personally use pixijs, but things like threejs or whatnot mi
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by ffn 12y ago
I absolutely agree with the writer's point about over-engineering. In start-up / small business land, optimizations are worthless because the main problem isn't that "oh, I have a poorly performing inefficient system&quo
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by ffn 12y ago
Yep. In other words, it's the price of efficiency - the desire to have everything now and the fear of missing the opportunity. But, of course, the question we have to ask is "do we really need to be that efficient?" I know no
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by ffn 12y ago
Thank you, this was great! Both my work and side projects all run on Ruby (except the ones that run on js), and this has been extremely helpful. I actually wrote def(whatever, &block) ... all the time because I was told that it would be
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by ffn 12y ago
Honestly, as an employer, I really wouldn't care if my employees watched porn in his free time as long as he keeps it to himself. Our attraction to naked bodies of the opposite (or same) sex is as old as walking upright and is deeply a
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by ffn 12y ago
Mechanical engineering graduate (and 2nd rate programmer) here. And I completely agree, this major is a sinkhole. Maybe 50 years ago when we were still building rockets, planes, and cars to stop the Soviets or what have you, ME was a great
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by ffn 12y ago
Considering you had to make a throw-away account to express your rather mild opinion, and then was immediately down-voted for it, yeah, I definitely agree you have an unpopular opinion. More than that, the whole issue of gender in tech has
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by ffn 12y ago
Quantum mechanics is weird only because we don't learn statistics in high school (well I didn't anyway), and we can't come up with good real-life analogies for quantum interactions. For example, the twin-slit experiment used
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by ffn 12y ago
It might be unencrypted http for all the target audience cares about. 20-30s youngsters using it to bat emoticons back and forth and discussing the merits of frills versus lace is probably a lot more concerned with how cute the stickers are
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by ffn 12y ago
In stark contrasting irony, the "things" people need and will pay for have barely changed since the days of Aristotle. We pay money for: 1. Food and shelter (death-prevention in general) 2. Social status / acceptance 3. More
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by ffn 12y ago
My guess is probably the same reason why the author writes "NONE" in the "Ease of / Desire to programming" section for Java... because brackets, pointers, for loops, using : to declare types, and other such C-derive
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by ffn 12y ago
Social media has taken the power formerly belonging only to politicians and famous actors and distributed it statistically over the masses. For normal people suddenly getting famous over something is a lot like electrons in a lower orbit ju
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by ffn 12y ago
Not that I'm saying killing people or sowing destruction is good, but tons of "good" or productive inventions we use today have their origins or inspirations as weapons of destruction. Who is to say, years later, the work on
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by ffn 12y ago
Most of what Patrick (the writer) says is decent advice, and yes, it is important to publish your hobby junk, get feedback, go to meetups, and generally involve oneself into the community as it is not only helpful to one's career, but
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by ffn 12y ago
Considering literally anything can be used to harm, kill, or maim (I actually have a friend who was severely injured by a pineapple) if used incorrectly, I say it's better to have open-source knowledge so we learn how to properly use s

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