gavanwoolery

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by gavanwoolery 15y ago
Heheh...I have used a number of different languages, from high level, like Python, to very low level, like assembly, and everything in between -- and pretty much messed with every paradigm at one point or another. I will readily concede to
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by gavanwoolery 15y ago
Wow...I did not expect to be picked up on Hacker News, I am honored! I agree that established engines like Unity/UDK are probably your best bet for making commercial games, but I am targeting hobbyists/hackers for the most part, who typica
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by gavanwoolery 15y ago
Amen
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by gavanwoolery 15y ago
Stop smoking weed. It might sound "uptight," but that is the first step you should take. I have done it myself, and I have seen it suck the ambition out of many of my friends. It is more harmful than you might initially think. I just wa
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by gavanwoolery 15y ago
I don't think its a matter of sexism. Yes, it is a generalization, but most women DO NOT want to be programmers. SV is dominated by programmers, not men. It just so happens that most programmers are men. Everyone throws around the word
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by gavanwoolery 15y ago
I just wrote about this recently, although with more focus on Microsoft's mistakes post DirectX 9.0: http://altdevblogaday.com/author/gavan-woolery/ :)
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by gavanwoolery 15y ago
From the article: “I became disillusioned with the way the United States was going in general. I myself had no health insurance and no way of getting health insurance as a self-employed person.” Uh...no way of getting health insurance? How
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by gavanwoolery 15y ago
In other news, users love to bitch about everything.
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by gavanwoolery 15y ago
"The sheer strength of their [the Facebook team's] talent is almost unmatched in our industry, past and present." I do not doubt that every employee at Facebook is a competent (or even fairly smart) person, but I kind of doubt they are the
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by gavanwoolery 15y ago
YAWN
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by gavanwoolery 15y ago
Matt - I have "succeeded" (helped lead a company to acquisition), but I have also failed many times over and run myself in to significant debt with more recent ventures. Never Give Up I hit days when nihilism gets the best of me, and
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by gavanwoolery 15y ago
Fire them? Uh...no. Here are my responses to his points: 1) I work 80-100 hours a week, and enjoy it. For the past 7 years. No burnout yet. I find time to exercise and unwind. 2) If you are just throwing hours at the problem, you are no
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by gavanwoolery 15y ago
It's called the internet. Information is free - if you can't teach yourself something, you have no chance of survival in a world filled with jobs that often require you to learn and adapt independently.
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by gavanwoolery 15y ago
Machines and CPU time are cheap...at least compared to the price of hiring additional programmers to maintain the mess of assembly code you just wrote.
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by gavanwoolery 16y ago
I wrote about this topic here: http://altdevblogaday.org/2011/04/14/the-difference-between-... I think that it boils down to more than just sharing skill sets, but that is certainly a good start. I argue that primarily, people have to be
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The Difference Between a Degree and an Education(altdevblogaday.org)
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by gavanwoolery 16y ago
In other news, Pot calls Kettle "black." More at 11.
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by gavanwoolery 16y ago
I agree with the premise of the article - however, as one notch in Nvidia's favor, I think most benchmarks demonstrate that the GTX 590 scales better in SLI than the Radeon 6990 does in Crossfire. Provided, you have a nuclear power plant i
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by gavanwoolery 16y ago
@raganwald - I commend you for your decision. Quora should not even have a down-vote button -- the best answers will go to the top anyway through up-votes. Also, I think there is just as much (if not more) intellectual value in answers th