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by frou_dh 3y ago
Well a simplistic answer would be that if you have a better codebase than your direct competition then the opportunity to crib large parts of your code might end up making their game attractive enough that some customers end up buying it in
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by frou_dh 3y ago
That makes me think of Reddit where many submissions that ask the audience a question need to have the comment sort order changed to "controversial" to read something interesting.
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by frou_dh 3y ago
Because the point of huge monitors in the WIMP paradigm is to display multiple windows simultaneously.
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by frou_dh 3y ago
I seriously doubt he feels a gratification deficit, given how far and wide C++'s use for serious projects has been.
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by frou_dh 3y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but adoption of "server-side" (aka non-App) Swift by people who weren't already Mac/iOS app developers seems to have been microscopic. Surely the language must be considered a colossal failu
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by frou_dh 3y ago
In that case, all the informally-specified bug-ridden program needs to be is fast to beat expectations.
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by frou_dh 3y ago
HGO, Hunch-guided Optimisation
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by frou_dh 3y ago
Then I'm happy to be in Scotland because we can bagsie Standard ML.
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by frou_dh 3y ago
Yep it's funny to me how many developer/poweruser type people act like exchanging money for goods and services is a weird unsavoury concept. Do they have this same hangup in other areas of life?
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by frou_dh 3y ago
It's interesting to consider that Google was a fairly young company when the original iPhone came out - only 8 years old.
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by frou_dh 3y ago
I have seen people point out that this confusing discussion can be avoided by accepting that types are purely a static property of terms (not only identifiers and literals) in source code, and that what many insist on calling dynamic types
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by frou_dh 3y ago
I'm impressed by Ruff. I heard about it a while ago and just assumed I wouldn't be able to use it because it's not just flake8 I like, but a bunch of third-party flake8-* plugin packages too. Turns out Ruff went and reimpleme
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by frou_dh 3y ago
> How do you tackle this? By installing this: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wipr/id1030595027 It's not the ultimate triple-A ad blocker but it hides the vast majority of crap. --- For subjective site
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by frou_dh 3y ago
Not a Googler, but hell no I don't think this will happen. It would turn into an enormous PR disaster.
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by frou_dh 3y ago
MS seem to be pushing out some new icon or toolbar in one of their products at about a rate of 1/week. Yesterday my mother's PC suddenly got some new search box in the taskbar with a picture of a cartoon giraffe in it. Before that
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by frou_dh 3y ago
Thats not a very "intelligent" response to the article because it goes into detail about benefits the author sees in concision and communicating intent in normal code.
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by frou_dh 3y ago
That's precisely what Clojure did, where @foo is syntactic sugar for (deref foo)
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by frou_dh 3y ago
This is probably quite a common phenomenon in open source software. Namely, an unglamorous bug has been around forever and someone finally gets annoyed enough to roll up their sleeves and fix it themselves.
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by frou_dh 3y ago
If increased immersion is a solution looking for a problem then the same could be said for the historical increase of 3D game graphics fidelity in general.
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by frou_dh 3y ago
And the little old thing that she wrote "I killed them on purpose" on a post-it-note at her house.
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by frou_dh 3y ago
Tried with OCaml, multiple times, and they all withered away and practically everyone is back to using normal OCaml syntax. (I'm not only talking about ReasonML, Reason, ReScript etc. There was a more officially proposed revised syntax
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by frou_dh 3y ago
A significant part of that ""reacted badly"" was a bunch of kids and YouTuber idiots spamming GitHub with meaningless comments, issues and PRs. Those people don't come out of it looking respectable, regardless of DH
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by frou_dh 3y ago
That sucks, but I think Bluesky are throttling themselves by still having closed signups after all this time.
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by frou_dh 3y ago
Trust the science on this. Wait, I've never looked at it. I guess that's why I used the word trust. Surely it confirms my preferences.
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by frou_dh 3y ago
It was specifically designed for peons (from the creator's perspective) so the condescension is baked in: > The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they're not researchers. They're typically fairly young, fresh
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by frou_dh 3y ago
I seemed to have the issue with a .dev domain.
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by frou_dh 3y ago
Also, for example if you are implementing chess then you should have an enum of Black and White rather than using `bool white`.
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by frou_dh 3y ago
The quip is something like "The next Haskell should be strict and the next ML should be pure".
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by frou_dh 3y ago
I came to the opposite conclusion and started importing US keyboards into the UK. I figured the UK layout I was used to wasn't different enough to justify existing, and the US layout has primacy because it's effectively the refere
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by frou_dh 3y ago
Here's a good comment from the archives elaborating on that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4515315

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