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by hacker_9 11y ago
Labels are dangerous, and labelling yourself as a procrastinator will just make you even less likely to do the work you need to do. I think I get a lot of work done (solo game dev on my own), but I also re-organise my task list about every
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by hacker_9 11y ago
I don't think a Yoga class really gives you any benefits if the tutor is not helping you or correcting your positions. All you need to remember is 1) know what muscles the pose is meant to be targeting and make sure you can feel those
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Tell that to the chickens you eat.
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by hacker_9 11y ago
> we have to build incredibly complex systems out of very basic axioms Yes and this is because our programming languages aren't as advanced as natural languages, not yet. > philosophy Did you just compare computer systems as bein
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by hacker_9 11y ago
As a solo indie game developer, who has to self motivate everyday, here's what I've found: 1. Programming is a completely mental/brain activity as you know, requiring no real physical exertion. So it should be easy to work on
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by hacker_9 11y ago
I think this shows that the tooling is just as important, if not more important, when choosing a language. Good debugging tools are a must simply because things always go wrong, and if I don't have an IDE that can highlight the line fo
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Perhaps the coolest thing about natural language is just how completely unstructured it is compared to programming languages (which are of course 100% structured). No one ever declares variables up front, tells you what state to record, or
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by hacker_9 11y ago
The only time I buy anything on my android phone is after I've downloaded the free version first, found it was actually useful, and then upgrade and get the pro features. Apps are so cheap I have no problem spending the money, but test
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by hacker_9 11y ago
You've missed a few major reasons as to why the industry is like this. Let me explain: 1. We don't re-invent everything, but the hardware keeps getting better and we want to take advantage of it. To do so requires rewriting large
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by hacker_9 11y ago
"The former head of AOL talks about the future of startups, what went wrong in the merger, and what Donald Trump told him." So many things wrong with this opening sentence.
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1. Writing takes longer than typing. 2. The longer you think about something the more permanent of a memory it becomes.
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by hacker_9 11y ago
The truth is Facebook pretty much has it all when it comes to social networking. It's UI design also speaks well to non technical people (read: most of the world), as it looks like a cluttered newspaper which people are familiar with.
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by hacker_9 11y ago
I agree. If you read the news you are just informed about how the world is going to shit and everyone is corrupt or a killer. This really colours people view of the world and they end up leading a life of fear, whereas the reality is 99% pe
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by hacker_9 11y ago
It is not currently, but the point I am making is the tech is coming in leaps and bounds, and I expect the next 5-10 years we are going to see something we haven't seen before; computers parsing semantic information from images, someth
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Posted images contain far more information that what is posted in text. Scroll through your feed, people upload images then write a header that adds to the scene . It doesn't describe it. There is so so much more information to gain f
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Again, not my point. Social network sites are built off image sharing, that before computers did not understand. Now that they do, we are entered an unprecedented age of surveillance. Private is only private to humans, the Facebook machine
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by hacker_9 11y ago
But I don't have access to all the photos the Facebook neural net does, because of private profiles and the fact I'm not friends with everyone. So really now the machine has far more information that I do, and it can make predic
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Not my point. What isn't available to everyone is the sheer amount of real life images that Facebook has access to, which people are uploading of their lives as we speak. You could get an unprecedented view of almost anyone's life
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Accurate, automatic descriptions of snapshots of peoples lives?? This is surely sending shock waves down the data mining community. Additionally Facebook are saying this was built as an aid for blind people, but this is surely just a cover
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Does this actually make sense at all? Usually I figure out the meaning of a sentence to form an answer, which requires thinking about more that just the words in the given sentence.
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by hacker_9 11y ago
It is still a country, and despite how small it may be, it is leading the way in fighting the corruption that the Panama leak exposed. This event will also influence how other involved countries will deal with their members of government no
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"The realization from that is that the thing I've spent a large part of my life doing, which is building computer languages, is not such a bad idea. In a computer language, you do get to represent more sophisticated concepts in a
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That is.. impressive.
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The beauty of programming with visual nodes: http://scriptsofanotherdimension.tumblr.com/
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by hacker_9 11y ago
3d Math sucks sure, but you can't just use an engine and expect to not have to deal with it. It's just the reality of the situation. Also I'm not denying the volume of work gone into Unreal, but I am saying that roll-your-own
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Writing an 'engine' is just good code reuse - as I build my game I have 2 separate groups of projects: one is for the engine where I put generic game tools such as model loading, input handling etc - and the other group of project
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Eh, you cut off the second part of what I said.. What I mean is, if you go down the route of writing your own graphics engine, then everything Unreal has is available in bits and pieces for free online, but you have to have the know how to
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Graphics engines aren't particularly hard to write though once you grep the shader pipeline, as many/all of the latest effects are available for free online (FXAA, HDR, Deferred Lighting etc), though an engine will nicely package
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Unreal has Unity beat in my mind simply because the Unreal developers are actually building games with their engine (Paragon), which really puts the code through it's paces and makes for a far better testing environment than an artific
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"We use the information we collect to send you promotional messages and content and otherwise market to you on and off our Services. We also use this information to measure how users respond to our marketing efforts." "Vir

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