greendragon

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by greendragon 10y ago
A few years ago I contacted a few people, and got contacted myself a few times with a "who wants to be hired" post. Some of those led to interviews, the one that led to a job was from being contacted through my "who wants to
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by greendragon 10y ago
I've intentionally been keeping myself ignorant about async/await in JS until it's common enough I can consider using it natively without any great concern about cross browser compatibility. Why is everyone so excited for it?
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by greendragon 10y ago
I love jk, been using that one for at least 8 years. I even got in the habit of tapping it a few times while thinking, sort of like how you might sometimes shake your leg or whatever. I trained myself off of that though when I had to use Ec
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by greendragon 10y ago
I bet you learned the 'new math' of addition and multiplication algorithms before long division. (e.g. for multiplication you construct a new set of numbers to add to get the final result.) But we probably should skip much of the
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by greendragon 10y ago
It can turn into effective immortality by compounded research knocking down problem after problem for what causes us to age and die.
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by greendragon 10y ago
This is accurate. The absolute cheapest option is around $35k plus an annual membership fee (or a one-time few-k fee I believe). The more premium (but head-only) option is $80k plus annual membership fee. (A bit more if you opt for a standb
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by greendragon 10y ago
I don't really see the cycle. I just see it as languages getting closer and closer to Lisp, as per usual. Turns out the static languages had a lot more growing up to do than the dynamic languages, so you're seeing 'big'
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by greendragon 10y ago
At my somewhat-below-fastest (which is still faster than my current normal, as I'm a lazy reader these days) my concentration, recollection, and enjoyment was the best -- plus I finished everything way faster. For anything serious (and
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by greendragon 10y ago
You can train yourself to speed read (and shut down the subvocalization that gets in the way, at least temporarily) so I don't think it's totally dependent on not having an inner voice at all, though that might help. It's int
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by greendragon 10y ago
Animated gifs with audio. That's it. Also super easy to create from a camera phone, no video or gif editing skills needed. I know at least some content producers on youtube will be happy. A lot of vine hate comes from them when random
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by greendragon 10y ago
Most of those 16 million lines are in drivers though, not the core kernel. (Which if I recall correctly is only about 200k lines. A far cry from 10k, but also a far cry from 16m.)
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by greendragon 10y ago
I'm more curious about what's so hard about it to convey. Wouldn't a simple time-lapse video of one of the paintings being created suffice?
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by greendragon 10y ago
The better insult would be 'pathetic', you know.
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by greendragon 10y ago
On the other hand it'd be nice to be able to get dead relatives' archives.
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by greendragon 10y ago
In short, the level design. I felt the hints of what annoyed me when I was playing the two Galaxy games, and this video really summed up what I find terribly wrong (as opposed to brilliant) with the design: https://www.youtube.co
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by greendragon 10y ago
I played through the two Galaxy games, the second one I think twice since you get Luigi after the first run... Maybe 8 months ago I was playing through Resident Evil 4 on the Wii to keep myself from buying the PC version, and when I finishe
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by greendragon 10y ago
I was thinking before the blog post confirmed the Tegra (and I had already known of the Tegra rumors from months ago) that by March 2017 it ought to be possible to stick one and maybe two GTX 1080s in that form factor... There's alread
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by greendragon 10y ago
It's hard to buy third party titles when the only third party titles are games that came out years ago and that you already own on other platforms... It's also hard to buy first party titles when there are so few, and so few new I
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by greendragon 10y ago
Hadn't thought of it like that before. :) A bit more usefully than the "one is harder one is easier" distinction, you can kind of think of the letters corresponding to semesters in a college course. A would be an introductory
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by greendragon 10y ago
They're not always required, but they try to bridge what you already know (or are supposed to know) with what is to come and move at a slower pace. It's also sometimes like an extra option for the less mathematically inclined who
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by greendragon 10y ago
Seiki 4ks have been sub 300 for a while, at least when they're on sale. (e.g. I've been using https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00RBA9MOC/ref=psdc_6459737011_t3_... for over a year as a monitor after applying a
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by greendragon 10y ago
Just a comment, the research on willpower as a finite resource does not replicate well. The latest I've heard is that it seems that willpower is like a finite resource if you believe it is, it is not like a finite resource if you don&#
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by greendragon 10y ago
But then the phrase just becomes generic advice everyone gives and provides an easy scapegoat to save face. Don't change it. Or if you must, you could at least dress it up a bit like Feynman http://www.basicfeynman.com/
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by greendragon 10y ago
Scott Adams has noted how Trump's views evolve to the people's, I do agree in thinking he's a populist. Would any of the other GOP candidates have had a gay man speak at the RNC? Populists can be dangerous, but they can also
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by greendragon 10y ago
Trump's tone is abrasive, but do you remember the time he sucker punched someone he was yelling at instead of continuing to debate? Me neither. Despite what we want to infer from his personality, you don't get to his level by bein
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by greendragon 10y ago
If all you need is a basic CRUD service, there are even easier options in the PHP/Rails/etc. world. If you have a schema for your data, it's pretty much one command away to generate such a CRUD service. Some of them even give
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by greendragon 10y ago
I think VHDL makes things easier. Verilog has some fundamental nondeterminism: http://insights.sigasi.com/opinion/jan/verilogs-major-flaw.h... Still, HDL in general is probably on the order of difficulty as gettin
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by greendragon 10y ago
I haven't used PyMTL but have used MyHDL, years ago. (I'm glad for aseipp's comments because that proprietary mess is exactly why I haven't bothered keeping up with FPGA development, though IceStorm has gotten me interes
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by greendragon 10y ago
While Java devs are fighting with the eclipse issue of the day, generating wsdls, deploying wars, making annotated glorified structs for typed json/xml/both (except in some cases when they just go with a Map<Map<....,String&
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by greendragon 10y ago
It will only really take off if they can get the user experience of getting a HDL program to the FPGA to the same level as getting a shader program to the GPU. Unless they can do all that in microcode though it's going to force them to

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