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gideons
12y ago
We have a fairly new bunch of technologies with the internet. We're still at the point where people are exploring the problem space, what our technology can solve, what it can't solve and suggesting future directions. We're l
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gideons
12y ago
Or as my 4th grade teacher used to say "Don't be sorry, be right".
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gideons
13y ago
At the end of the day PG is a smart dude and a wealthy dude, but he's not a philosopher or great thinker on social interaction. His essays barely rise above the level of Rush lyrics and angst-y teenage poetry. Use him for inspiration but do
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gideons
13y ago
Strawmen must die!
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gideons
14y ago
Please, the people who matter are: 1. buyers from retail who might "play" a game only at E3 2. Marketing people who are getting a sense for how your game is being received and might never play a game 3. Corporate tools who are checking how
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gideons
14y ago
In a video game anything the player doesn't see is a waste of time. In the case of games with large branching story lines it's a tradeoff between putting effort in to content which might be unseen and adding "depth." AI is the same. A geniu
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gideons
15y ago
That's the problem though isn't it. The buffers absorb the packets, preventing packet loss, and TCP performance goes down. Adding more initial packets puts more data in flight, more traffic uses intermediate buffers quicker. This tactic see
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gideons
15y ago
I don't think reversing a link-list and removing unique items requires any special Python knowledge. No magical API needs to be used, just the basics. A white board interview shouldn't exclude naive implementations. After the naive implemen
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gideons
15y ago
So you have a legacy system that is being used by other systems, you're the new super genius and can't understand the system, so you rewrite? Discounting the potential release iterations and bug fixes that are in the legacy system? Your "im