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by hacker_9 10y ago
Me too! I find my speech center just turns off, and I'm quite unwilling to speak even when spoken too. I expect some people find this zombie mode rude, but you can't please everyone and hey that software ain't gonna write its
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by hacker_9 10y ago
His demos only work with small amounts of code, scale up to the size of a real codebase and they all become infeasible, as well as not really that useful.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
From someone from the UK, $100,000 seems like an enormous amount within 6 years of leaving university. Is that sort of thing even possible here?
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Math being hard has always confused me; spend just one hour learning computer vision algorithms or neural networks and you'll find them to be very mathematical. It even explains nature so well, what with fibonnacci and so on. So why do
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by hacker_9 10y ago
You mistake what I mean, I meant that the sites that came after appeared more technical to the end user. Also those examples you give came before Facebook (mostly? Haven't even heard of some), which Facebook beat by providing a bette
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Facebook managed to beat out it's competitors to the top spot, and maintain that spot long enough to the point where it has just become a constant in people's minds now. Every other attempt to dethrone has been too technical minde
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by hacker_9 10y ago
People love to hate Facebook and Twitter, but they ain't going anywhere. The service they provide is too useful, and after so many years they are ingrained in people's social lives.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Twitter had 350 million active users in Q1 of 2016, this is quite a lot actually.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
If you making any sort of product it's a great way to reach your audience (speaking as a game dev here). Also I can follow other dev progress as they post updates to their feed, which I find really interesting! Some people post great s
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by hacker_9 10y ago
News just in: Languages with static type systems give better errors about types.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
I'm still so undecided whether to upgrade from Windows 7 to 10. On the one hand a free upgrade to the latest OS is so very tempting, but then I read about how there is no privacy, people calling the installation malware, and the ugly f
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by hacker_9 10y ago
This is actually really interesting to me. I use C# for side projects and often write Debug.Assert everywhere to check things, but can't quite bring myself to throw exceptions for full blown errors. I just find they add a lot of bloat,
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by hacker_9 10y ago
You're right the experience isn't great, that doesn't stop people trying though. There are many mobile IDEs too that try all sorts of different layouts, but they are all an exercise in frustration at the end of the day. I thi
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Do you have any practical examples of what you mean? It seems obvious, but getting a computer to understand requirements, and also solve for them and build a realistic 3d model? Seems like an impossible task for current technology.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
> The dynamic world lets us have inconsistent code that partially works This is precisely why I have nightmares about refactoring dynamic codebases.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
I've recently written a Blender addon using Python that came to just over 1000 LOC. Not big at all and yet already I was running into problems that are just non existent in static languages. I couldn't refactor variable names and
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by hacker_9 10y ago
This is true, I didn't go into any more detail as the post was getting a bit long, but I do find fruit and nuts to be a good substitute for snack food. I've never been a fan of dark chocolate, although I do find that after eating
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by hacker_9 10y ago
What a poor article, it doesn't go into any specifics or give reasons for why you should eat this or avoid that. The whole article really boils down to 'don't eat bad food, eat good food.' On another note, I've re
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by hacker_9 10y ago
It doesn't matter what you say about Lisp, there will always be people on HN who vigorously defend it to their last dying breathe it seems. The idea of a language not being (one(definition(after(another)))) seems foreign to these peopl
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by hacker_9 11y ago
It's not a bug, and the answer is provided in the link: "Faster execution time. You may have noticed that in the new compiler pipeline, optimization appears twice. That’s no accident: previously, the compiler relied solely on LLV
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Agile is no magic bullet. Additionally 'change' means a very different thing when you are talking about in-flexible data (3d models, textures, animation etc), and usually means throwing the data away completely and starting over.
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by hacker_9 11y ago
You are saying then that the animations are 'minimal' in the Arkham games, which they are not. To make the animation as fluent as it is would require a lot of work and tweaking. Street Fighter on the other hand has a defined set o
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Not always true. For example the combat animation in the Arkham games - without it how do you test the combat is satisfying? Or the super cars in GTA, how to you test they break in interesting ways without having the finished mesh? Or the g
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by hacker_9 11y ago
And yet if it was the other way round, maybe our films would be better and actually make sense.
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by hacker_9 11y ago
I think you might be missing the point of the article. The metric for measuring a game's success is how fun it is to play. You can't plan fun, that only comes from having a playground and tweaking things until the game play feels
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by hacker_9 11y ago
"WASM 5.1 has a preliminary support for WASM. You can enable it via the flag --expose_wasm in d8. Alternatively you can try out the WASM demos with Chrome 51 (Beta Channel)." The future is coming fast.
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by hacker_9 11y ago
More abstractions! Higher level languages!
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by hacker_9 11y ago
How do you figure? The doom maps are almost all completely dull looking and gray, aren't lit realistically (so depth from shading becomes harder to determine), and because of no anti-aliasing, lines are far more jagged (meaning the com
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Yep this is probably the biggest failing in the modern workplace; expecting employees to be able to sit down all day and be productive. I found in those environments you just end up pretending to be productive a lot of the time.
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by hacker_9 11y ago
The stretching to be honest. I used to meditate, but these days I only really do it I can't fall asleep, or need to fast forward my brain getting over some bad experience I've had. For a productivity boost, I'd definitely go

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