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by flipgimble 7y ago
My experience is that “talent” in a superstar city jumps around between major companies every year or three in search of better salary. There is an expectation then that each new hire is immediately put to work and depending on your level,
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by flipgimble 7y ago
Like many others posting here I’ve followed John’s work frOm the mid 90’s so here is my take: * he has an exceptional quality of cutting through the bullshit and shipping practical software, which is arguably what the vague and uncertain fi
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by flipgimble 7y ago
In reading comments about Swift on this and other HN threads I see a lot opinions that in my experience are completely off the mark: a) "Apple cares only about iOS so thats all Swift will be used for" b) "Swift is in fact slo
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by flipgimble 7y ago
Related to the post, I highly recommend reading "The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch" [1] if you are interested in foundational technology that underpins our civilization. This type of information is often forgott
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by flipgimble 8y ago
Agreed, this tradition needs to die a quick and quiet death. I actively avoid the internet on April 1st because of it. The problem is that the April Fools "sense of humor" is mostly of the "amateur thinks they are funny"
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by flipgimble 8y ago
If your whole world is asm and C, then I take it you don't care much about type systems. Bless your heart, you lonely programmer of ephemeral software, may you be employed gainfully fixing your own bugs for decades. The saltiness if mo
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Blender 2.8 Beta(blender.org)
3 points by flipgimble 8y ago|0 comments
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by flipgimble 8y ago
The one killer feature I'm hoping some GUI client implements is the ability to seamlessly search and filter branches by just typing the way most IDE's implement search for symbols or files. I work on large active projects that use
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by flipgimble 8y ago
Tantrum-Driven Development, also know as spitting in the wind.
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by flipgimble 8y ago
And yet despite your criticism they are selling more devices than during Steve Jobs by a large margin. My iphoneX is by far the most usable and comfortable form factor of a smart phone I’ve used in the past decade. I’m just glad Apple has f
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by flipgimble 8y ago
It's important to remember that you can always make it look like you are ahead of Moore's Law curve if you are willing to spend more for silicon and the energy to power it. This appears to be a GPU design for those applications wh
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by flipgimble 8y ago
> Swift really does not support quickly iterating on a design. I find the opposite to be the case. You assume that compile errors are a net negative for speed of development and expressivity. Instead I find that the compiler reminds me u
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by flipgimble 8y ago
The critical difference is that in swift your have to override safe behavior by using special syntax. This means you can search for it to fix it, you can have compiler/linters enforce certain rules, you can catch it easily in code revi
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by flipgimble 8y ago
Lattner takes "working" software to mean something that can be shipped to production and used in the real world, as opposed to the classic "works on my machine" definition that second rate developers hide behind. It take
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by flipgimble 8y ago
When people criticize C as a language they are usually referring to the fact that it easily and frequently allows for many classes of bugs that riddle C code. For decades, as an industry we've been apologizing and fixing critical explo
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by flipgimble 8y ago
You make my point for me when you say that you already suspect the result and this proves it. Let’s not bring truth into this when it clearly using statistics to advocate your point of view.
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by flipgimble 8y ago
This was interesting because all other evidence from large scale longitudinal studies points to the opposite conclusion. But there is the bold tag "Accurately Reported" on straighttalkonevidence.org after all Reading through it ap
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by flipgimble 8y ago
yes, this does join today's festival of obscure languages. But why is this one note worthy you might ask yourself? 1. it appeared almost out of nowhere with no warning from its mysterious author _why the lucky stiff who then later disa
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The Potion Language(github.com)
3 points by flipgimble 8y ago|1 comments
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by flipgimble 8y ago
Seems to me you are into promoting conspiracy theories if they confirm your own world view, instead of withholding judgement until more information is available. The article omitted the critical detail about which private API was used. I ha
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by flipgimble 8y ago
I don't want to worry you, but on a mobile device with a screen the GPU is always spinning. That is where the pixels come from after all. I get your point that there are energy efficiency tradeoffs to consider. However for massively da
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by flipgimble 8y ago
I don’t think it’s conflating anything but trying to explain to you the difference between the two concepts. It’s saying that Null for all references types by default is a bad idea, and representing “missing” in a tagged union (sum type, wh
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by flipgimble 8y ago
This is also how Swift implements it support for optional. So far I don’t see a difference in expressive power between the two languages. A user never has to actually type out Optional, when adding ? is enough. Swift also has optional chain
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by flipgimble 8y ago
I think you misunderstood something about the languages mentioned like Swift or Haskell. They do have a way to represent the concept of "nothing", or "missing" using an enumeration (called Optional in Swift, Maybe in Has
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by flipgimble 9y ago
One of the co-founders of shader toy is a legend in the field and has the most relevant resources for procedural generation and distance field ray-marching: http://iquilezles.org/www/index.htm
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by flipgimble 9y ago
While the article has a some good points about not over-engineering unless you need it, I’m really put off by the pissed off and dismissive attitude. Ex “here’s another wannabe who never bothered to learn”, “This pisses me off“, “I’ve spent
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by flipgimble 9y ago
Or more realistically and less dramatically, some these big features took a lot of effort and engineering investment before they were ready for production. Apple tends to re-think the current technology and implements their ideal solution.
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by flipgimble 9y ago
This is something that can be largely fixed by the software, but it requires 3rd part developer coordination, that honestly only Apple can pull off. In iOS11 there is a concept of a safe area that UI should respect. With constraint based la
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by flipgimble 9y ago
This is an admirable effort and thanks for doing it. Have you experienced problems related to the lack of active support from AMD or Intel for OpenCL drivers? Thats been my experience with OpenCL several years ago. On a related note drivers
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by flipgimble 9y ago
AMD and OpenCL have fallen desperately behind NVidia and CUDA in terms of industry adoption. CIDA is so far the industry standard for machine learning on GPUs. For example tensor flow had a GPU backend using CUDA. Last time I looked OpenCL

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