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by hgs3 4y ago
It is conservative, except for nullptr which duplicates NULL. This violates C's own charter of "provide only one way to do an operation."
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by hgs3 4y ago
Just as interesting as the Quake engine itself are the Quake Tools [1]. The level editor, QuakeEd, was written in Objective-C for the NeXT operating system (which would become Mac OS X). [1] https://github.com/id-Software&#x
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by hgs3 4y ago
Reminds me of the "goes to" operator [1] [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1642028/what-is-the-oper...
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by hgs3 4y ago
> Much, much more profitable to simply drag your customers along forever and use every whale-milking technique ever designed. That's true of many industries. If a light bulb manufacturer invented a light bulb that lasted 100 years t
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by hgs3 4y ago
Sad. Following supply and demand economics, if there is a low supply of workers and a high demand for them, then workers must be paid more. In reality, wages stagnate, culture erodes, and systems strain because those in power artificially r
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by hgs3 4y ago
I tried Rust about five years ago and I had trouble expressing cyclic data structures because there is no clear "owner" in a cyclic data structure. The "safe" solution recommended by the rustaceans was to use integers as
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by hgs3 4y ago
Health insurance is more comprehensive so I would expect it to cost more. The issue is it cost far more than it should in no small part due to lack of competition.
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by hgs3 4y ago
> Since insurance is now available for purchase on the open marketplace, there are whole classes of employers who don't need to worry about including it in their benefits packages which they offer. I'm not sure what you mean by
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by hgs3 4y ago
A textbook example of capitalism squashing innovation.
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by hgs3 4y ago
Just a thought I had: Godot is MIT and the project never had a contributor license agreement. W4 doesn't "own" the copyright anymore than anyone else. An investor with enough capital could start their own W4 competitor, or ev
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by hgs3 4y ago
It's not about how you start, it's about how you end up. Only time will tell.
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by hgs3 4y ago
Businesses seek out and use 3rd party software, whether it be proprietary or open source, because they have a need for it e.g. it solves a real world problem they have. The whole point of dual licensing is so businesses pay cash for a close
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by hgs3 4y ago
> Companies wouldn’t touch a GPL let alone an AGPL with a 20ft pole. That's the point of dual licensing: companies will need to purchase a closed source license. > And if people can’t eventually use it for work, people don’t tend
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by hgs3 4y ago
The mistake being made is picking licenses that are too permissive. I have no idea why the dual licensing model is not more popular: use a strong copyleft license, like the AGPL, and sell closed-source business licenses. Source code hosting
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by hgs3 4y ago
I still find it perplexing that Unreal ditched Unreal Script in favor of Blueprints and full C++.
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by hgs3 4y ago
> 5. Schools are just too darn big. Thousands of kids in a big prison-shaped building and we wonder why everyone is alienated, miserable and dehumanized? Personal anecdotal: I started programming on my own freshmen year of High School an
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by hgs3 4y ago
UTF-32 performance woes are exaggerated. UTF-8 decoding requires branching whereas UTF-32 does not and in terms of storage real world text does not consume much space.
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by hgs3 4y ago
There were plenty of alternatives: C4, Torque, Leadwerks, ShiVa, NeoAxis, Esenthel, Panda3D, Cafu, Crystal Space, and others. Unity gained popularity because it supported mobile devices at a time when the smart phone market was only a few y
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by hgs3 4y ago
Don't be discouraged. You're more likely to succeed by targeting a niche.
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by hgs3 4y ago
> How do you build a human system that supports this that is also robust to exploitation? Small steps. Acknowledge human nature for better or worse. Acknowledge that humans emulate what their exposed to. Consider cigarette smoking in the
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by hgs3 4y ago
I’m concerned about the precedent DALL-E 2 is setting. Learning skills, whether it be drawing, painting, or otherwise, should not be a “problem” that needs to be solved with AI. The joy of creating is in the journey, not the destination. I
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by hgs3 4y ago
> Why should artists be able to spend their time doing exactly what they want while all the boring plebs have to pick vegetables/write CRUD apps? And why do these "boring pleb jobs" exist? Why doesn’t everyone create and s
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by hgs3 4y ago
I wonder if the choice of instruments matters? Mozart is one of the more popular composes that is routinely covered by neoclassical metal shredders. Compare the original composition to this metal cover of Symphony no. 40 in G minor [1]. [1]
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by hgs3 4y ago
> I love how the options you're presenting keep getting worse. Every option has its pro’s and con’s. A corporate job brings security, but drudgery. Starting your own business brings challenge, but a high chance of failure. Joining a
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by hgs3 4y ago
> or starting a small business that has a 90% chance of failure. Better a challenge than living in corporate drudgery. It’s ultimately up to the individual. OP can always quit mainstream society and join a monastery. I know someone who d
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by hgs3 4y ago
> I get work is first and foremost an exchange of labour for money, and not supposed to be fun. But aren't there more options I missed so far? I felt the exact same way. The truth is most jobs are CRUD or CRUD-like. Not just in tech
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by hgs3 4y ago
That’s no different than “special interest groups” and lobbyist today. It’s a separate issue that needs addressing.
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by hgs3 4y ago
You know what’s a better idea? Sortition [1]. Seriously, just randomly select people willing to do the job, maybe 10 or 15 people and then vote for one amongst that group. If this sounds radical, then consider this is already how primary vo
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by hgs3 4y ago
I think the better question is why is Stack Exchange a private for-profit business? Why not a non-profit like Wikipedia?
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by hgs3 4y ago
At first when I saw "Prey" and "Native American" I thought we were getting a film adaptation of the Prey 2006 video game. You play as a member of the Cherokee tribe who gets abducted by aliens. Fun tech fact: The game fe

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