islon

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by islon 13y ago
It seems that people on hn just fell in love with go. So many new articles lately. It's like the node.js fever all over again.
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by islon 13y ago
we are entering the 3D era of geocities
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by islon 13y ago
Well, in a typical web application (the server part) all your state is normally in the database so you don't need to worry about it. Just use pure functions that process the request get/put the data in the database and give the re
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by islon 13y ago
2004 was a bad year for cryptographic hash functions...
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by islon 13y ago
We had a problem, we hid it under a layer of abstraction, now we have a hidden problem.
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by islon 13y ago
"Gaming is a tiny niche market in reality" Yes, it's just the biggest medium industry in the world, ahead of hollywood and music.
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by islon 13y ago
I really want this linux gaming thing to be true. I miss all those games I bought on steam that I can't play because I don't have a windows pc anymore and don't want to buy one just for that.
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by islon 13y ago
It is a major characteristic and it is positive. I work with backend services in clojure, we have a huge codebase and many programmers working in parallel in the project (6 right now). The code is straight forward, short and elegant with im
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by islon 13y ago
The guy gives many advices and mostly forget to follow them himself.
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by islon 13y ago
Throw a dice: if it's a 6 then he'll be a good team player. No, serious, it's really hard to know that beforehand, an interview with the right questions can help but luck is still involved.
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by islon 13y ago
In a statically typed language you have to worry about many other things tough =)
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A Game 20 Years In the Making(escapistmagazine.com)
1 points by islon 13y ago|0 comments
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by islon 13y ago
The main page eats all my GPU to the point it's almost impossible to scroll (macbook air 2013). Shouldn't take so much resources for such a simple page.
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by islon 13y ago
Now if only it could download subtitles from subscene...
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by islon 13y ago
It used to be a PITA, it's still not perfect but much better. take a look at lein-cljsbuild ( https://github.com/emezeske/lein-cljsbuild ) to create you project, there you can just create an html and add the resulti
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by islon 13y ago
Freedom of speech at its best. Of course there's a limit to what you are free to say, but 8 years of prison? Really?
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Cholera is Altering the Human Genome(news.sciencemag.org)
2 points by islon 13y ago|0 comments
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by islon 13y ago
You either die a hero or live long enough to became the villain. At least we have duck duck go.
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by islon 13y ago
Genetic modifications can't alter human nature. What you'll have is a different species, closely related to humans. You can argue that's just semantics, I can agree to a point but unless you give a proper answer to what does
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by islon 13y ago
Agreed, but in rpgs (as in most jobs) you normally work on a team not solo.
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by islon 13y ago
If this was d&d the article would be called "the rise of the /mage" and would be about how could you boost your career by dual-classing mage, and my conclusions would be the same: a warrior is not worse than a warrior/mage only more foc
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by islon 14y ago
That's what EA does best: ruin games. (Yeah, I know there are exceptions).
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Google and MPEG LA End All Disputes on VP8(infoq.com)
7 points by islon 14y ago|0 comments
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by islon 14y ago
Congratulations, you just gave syntax highlighting a whole new meaning!
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by islon 14y ago
When I'm coding I normally think about 2 things: - What should I do here to help me and other developers understand what's gone wrong. This generally results in one of the three categories: - Is it a "shouldn't happen" error like hard
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by islon 14y ago
I know how you felt. Many years ago when I was a junior working in a casual game company, I were to add a bunch of credits to a poker player (fake money). I forget the where in the SQL clause and added credits to every player in our databas
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by islon 14y ago
You don't expect a junior to make mistakes, you expect everyone AND everything to make mistakes/fail. Backups and separated environments is the least you could expect from a company earning millions.
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by islon 14y ago
Digital was never killing music. Stupidity, greed and failure to cope with reality were killing music. (By music he meant the phonographic industry).
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by islon 14y ago
The most amazing thing about stuxnet is that if hollywood were to make a movie about it we would find it too unrealistic, even if it was less fantastic than the real facts.
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by islon 14y ago
"Take a look at NeatSeek, and prepare to be amazed." You are right: I'm amazed by the amount of self deception and wishful thinking in this article. You missed the point so hard you hit yourself.

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