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by jblow 12y ago
Which findings of Kurt Godel? Care to explain? Because for example this seems like it has nothing to do with the incompleteness theorems unless one doesn't understand the incompleteness theorems at all and is just hand-waving.
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by jblow 12y ago
Wow, this Schopenhauer quote is really painful to read. Given basic contemporary abstract thinking, it reads as completely naive. This is not unique; I often feel this way when reading philosophy. So I kind of understand where Hawking &#x2F
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by jblow 12y ago
It looks to me like the author is trying hard to justify localization because he wants it to be worthwhile, but looking at the numbers, I don't see the evidence. The reasons he gives seem like rally big stretches and factual cherry-pic
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by jblow 12y ago
I don't know a lot about Square, but this article reads like a hit piece, wherein the author has an agenda to write a negative article about the company and to cherry-pick facts and bend descriptions to build the narrative. All magazin
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Imgui: Immediate Mode Graphical User Interface with minimal dependencies(github.com)
134 points by jblow 12y ago|41 comments
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by jblow 12y ago
Extrapolation is not at all the same thing. When you aren't getting network packets, yes, you run locally to do some kind of approximation to what is happening (in fact for a good game, your frame rate is never contingent upon what is
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by jblow 12y ago
Dude you have NO idea what you are talking about. An occasional 10ms pause absolutely will "prevent that". Those of us who work on software that does a lot of rendering using these fabled GPUs you mention know that feeding the GPU
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by jblow 12y ago
Well, you're being a bit revisionist. You can get memory safety without GC, and a number of GC'd systems do not provide memory safety. If you think that, for concurrent systems, it is a good idea to let deallocations pile up until
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by jblow 12y ago
And it's worse, because... "only 60fps?" 60fps was fine pre-VR, but now you want to do 90fps times 2 eyes. That's a lot of rendering.
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by jblow 12y ago
Lots of low-end , non-premium-experience games are made with those things. And e.g. games that use Lua usually only use it for high-level gameplay logic, i.e. most of the running code is in C++ or something. And yes, it's a problem. S
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by jblow 12y ago
And video games. And avionics/aerospace. And self-driving cars. And medical equipment. etc, etc. You can list lots of fields for which this is unacceptable, and they are a lot of the really interesting fields.
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by jblow 12y ago
Availability of 40ms out of every 50ms... how many 9s is that? Oh wait. "Go, the language with zero nines of availability."
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by jblow 12y ago
Google bought Twitch. They are not an independent entity. This is Google doing this.
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by jblow 12y ago
Yeah, as soon as the guy started saying this I discounted the whole article. Yes, maybe Apple will switch to A7 chips, but this author sure doesn't know enough about processors to have any kind of a privileged viewpoint. If one doesn&#
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by jblow 12y ago
Upvoted because it's true. However, it is unlikely an HN-style site would fare better. But who knows.
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by jblow 12y ago
Sorry, but you are drastically underestimating the knowledge and experience of the author of the article for no other reason than to try and make yourself look smart, which is failing.
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by jblow 12y ago
I certainly welcome the attempts to reduce annotations and will look again at the language in a while. It is interesting that the design priorities are so library-centric. I agree that library quality is important, but think about this: For
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by jblow 12y ago
I want a language I would enjoy programming in. Rust seems to have a lot of what I want (GC not mandatory, perf, etc, etc) BUT private-by-default is a terrible idea. I started writing a Rust program and I was just typing pub pub pub all ove
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by jblow 12y ago
I don't think this is quite the right attitude but I still agree with the basic concept. If you are building a high-end video game (my field), garbage collection simply makes the user experience poorer than it would be otherwise. It is
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by jblow 12y ago
Very weird one-sided article containing no details of substance, like how the actual projects are going and what has been implemented.
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by jblow 12y ago
(The language implementation can of course engage in strategies to avoid a full array copy, that you as the user have little insight into, but these are often questionable as they slow down run time in other cases, and anyway, they can only
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by jblow 12y ago
"This isn't a problem"? You're so sure? How many nodes are there? Let's presume there are a lot, otherwise the problem is trivial and speed doesn't matter anyway. So now you have an N-long immutable array that
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by jblow 12y ago
No, because the final ticket purchaser would have been even happier with the ticket plus the extra cash he would have had if he had not needed to buy from the scalper, and/or the venue or promoter would have been happier with the extra
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by jblow 12y ago
I don't even.
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by jblow 12y ago
I don't think this is necessarily true. Yes, people leaving for keyboard-feature reasons are power users. But there are other keyboard reasons. For example, iOS7 totally broke the keyboard so that fast touch-typists just can't typ
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by jblow 12y ago
The article is good, but I agree that the headline taken out of context is highly misleading. In the context of the article it makes sense. But out of context it appears to be saying that all games should cost a lot less than $60, which rea
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by jblow 12y ago
They are not OpenGL derivative. I don't know why this rumor propagates. Oh wait yes I do, because those of us who know what the APIs look like in detail generally can't say anything about them because of NDAs. Sigh. To be clear: N
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by jblow 12y ago
The attempt to put a positive spin on the ad-version is kind of absurd. Translation: "We tried to serve ads in a way that broke basic functionality for many people. But we didn't make that much money, so we are going to stop being
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by jblow 12y ago
Just get rid of the damn headers. Users don't want them. They are just misguided ways of trying to raise retention, but really what they do is make your site less pleasant to use, which then makes me not want to come back later.
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by jblow 12y ago
I have an iPad Air, and there are definitely basic iOS7 operations that lag and stutter on it. (For example, pulling down the search box).

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