jarcane

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by jarcane 12y ago
Passion doesn't pay the rent.
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Art is a business(theguardian.com)
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As a result, they might not be comparison shopping with other company types like other programmers between financial, startup, BigCo, and others. Indeed. This is a good point. If you grow up and go into the game industry wanting to make t
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by jarcane 12y ago
1) Many of them don't. The turnover of grunt level coders and QA staff is huge, and the senior figures in the industry mostly made it through the days before crunch-time was simply "all-the-time", and now have the seniority t
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by jarcane 12y ago
People have been refusing to pay artists for longer than there has been digital copying.
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I should not here: I was not using that term to be derisive, though many others have used it in that sense when targeting Patreon in particular. I actually have seriously considered a Patreon project myself, and I've crowdfunded multip
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by jarcane 12y ago
Bluntly, this argument (which is tiresomely familiar to me at this point) strikes me as nothing so much as self-fulfilling justification. Thing X doesn't pay, therefore I don't have to pay you for Thing X, you should've gone
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by jarcane 12y ago
In HN debates on the subject, I've noticed a small but persistent core of resentment for professional artists, based around the idea that artists shouldn't be so greedy as to ask for money because being an artist is fun. And whil
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by jarcane 12y ago
“We love your music,” the public seems to be saying, “but we aren’t going to pay for it anymore." This is utterly and painfully familiar to me. Before I dove into retraining as a programmer, I was a self-published tabletop roleplayin
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by jarcane 12y ago
Given that the parent site for this charges for job leads, something tells me 'not getting fired' isn't high on their priority list.
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by jarcane 12y ago
This article discusses why recently we do not see many hacker groups anymore, and why the ones we do, such as Anonymous and its satellite efforts, do not succeed in having the same cultural impact as their forefathers. Umm, what? I'
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by jarcane 12y ago
I'm currently working through the Build Your Own Lisp book, and quite see exactly what the writer is on about there. I think if anything, everyone should at least go through a project like this in C if only to understand everything t
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I would find this all hilariously self-involved if I weren't pretty sure it is in fact a joke.
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I guess the smiley face after 'fastest browser ... probably' is because their own benchmarks show it not consistently beating Chrome?
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Source is here: https://github.com/MrAlex94/Waterfox
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Thing about that is, the movie business is all about risk deference sometimes: making a dumb obvious move now, so you can afford to take the bigger risk later. And remember too that while the sequels of both SM film series have been largely
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by jarcane 12y ago
I find seeing a multipoint dotted Java name in front of an s-expression deeply unsettling somehow, and I never learned Java anyway, so Clojure was of limited utility to me since so much stuff seemed handed off to Java built-ins. And I think
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by jarcane 12y ago
For me, one of the simplest explanations of the difference between macros and functions is the short-circuiting and. In many languages, and does not evaluate all of its arguments, only as many as it needs to until it finds #f. This sounds l
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by jarcane 12y ago
Python has one of the biggest standard libraries there is, there is a lot of useful stuff in there already provided, plus there is a humongous amount of third-party packages available through pip. It also generally has a pretty good C FFI
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by jarcane 12y ago
Awesome. I love seen stuff done with the old Tandy machines; I grew up with a Color Computer 3, and I've seen that thing do some amazing things but rarely much done with the Model 1-4.
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ALT1977: Modern technology sold with 1970s advertising(behance.net)
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Did you use some kind of look-ahead caching going on in the video? In the full screen vid it comes out OK, but I noticed that in the sound demo you recorded it seemed like sometimes the video would struggle to keep up, and fall back to more
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Inventing a Thing(jarcane.github.io)
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Yes. I find sometimes that programming in Racket and other Lisps is so efficient, that whenever something starts looking tedious, I start reconsidering if there's a more elegant way I'm missing to implement it. Learning it, hackin
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There is an online editor/REPL/tutorial at http://www.tryfsharp.org/ You will need the Silverlight plugin.
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Goodness. My apologies for instigating a terminology war, I should not have been so imprecise. I think tel is mostly on the right track of what I mean when I compare Racket to traditional ALGOL languages, but it is also true to say that Rac
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by jarcane 12y ago
Different math is also hard in different ways. I knew physics students who found calculus infinitely easier than doing trigonometry proofs. But there's others for whom the very idea of calculus is horrifying, and statistics and calculu
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by jarcane 12y ago
16 of 23 patterns have qualitatively simpler implementation in Lisp or Dylan than in C++ for at least some uses of each pattern Things like this are literally why I switched from Python to Racket almost immediately once I discovered the l
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by jarcane 12y ago
80%-cost is higher than any other POD service I know, that's potentially quite good. Through my current publisher I get 70% after cost, so it depends on what their fee is (and it irritates me more that they don't specify what that
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I think, crucially, the point is that he wasn't 'not mean' when he was actually in charge of things at MS. He was actively horrible from the beginning; there've even been suspicions for years that MS-BASIC, the very thin

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