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by jblow 14y ago
Here is my startup idea: an ad company that also allows people to register and pay a few pennies per article in order to turn off all ads for anyone participating in the network, and for a little bit of premium / exclusive content that nob
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by jblow 14y ago
P.S. If there were an easy way for me to pay a nickel per article I read (or however much), instead of having ads all over the internet, I would jump at that in an instant.
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by jblow 14y ago
Destructoid is much more ad-heavy than other similar gaming news sites, and they tend to implement the ads in a way that hits browsers hard performance-wise, so that the site is just painful to navigate. I stopped going to Destructoid a whi
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by jblow 14y ago
Have you looked at EA's financials? They have been losing money for years.
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by jblow 14y ago
This is a "parody site". It is not a real article.
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My Ugliest Bug(robertoconcerto.blogspot.com)
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by jblow 14y ago
I am, and the answer is: not very much. I own a Roadster, and after 2.5 years of daily driving, my battery capacity is down by 6%. That's not 0%, but it's also not a big deal.
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by jblow 14y ago
No, actually, they got fucked pretty hard. What you see in the movie is only about 10% of what happened -- but you are also misinterpreting what you saw in the movie, which is already pretty bad.
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by jblow 14y ago
Costs of stuff like rent and cars are normalized to average income levels. (Though of course with cars there is a base cost of manufacture that makes them less flexible than something like rent). Which is to say, if everyone works 25 hours
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by jblow 14y ago
If you can't handle arbitrary-length strings, you pretty much don't know how to program. Really.
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by jblow 14y ago
Also, re this: "but being a single platform developer kind of sucks. Become the kind of developer who doesn't care what platform they get to develop on". I agree with this in principle. But in practice... I invite you to develop large and c
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by jblow 14y ago
I started on gdb in college in 1989-1993, so I have experience in both worlds. gdb is not a very good debugger.
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by jblow 14y ago
Being a very experienced game developer who tried to switch to Linux, I have posted about this before (and gotten flamed heavily by reactionary Linux people). The main reason is that debugging is terrible on Linux. gdb is just bad to use, a
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by jblow 14y ago
I don't understand why people think this is going to be useful. The inbuilt assumption is that people care enough about the data to want to search it frequently and thoroughly. I don't think that is true. Facebook is mostly ephemeral junk d
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by jblow 14y ago
Yeah, this discussion went a lot better than the other one! Certainly more enjoyable, anyway.
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by jblow 14y ago
Creepy reply is creepy. About this: "Plus, I mean, what if I revealed myself to you, and then you were like, oh shit, I better take what he says a little bit more seriously, wouldn't that just be embarrassing? I don't want to do that to you
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by jblow 14y ago
I think we have different ideas about what constitutes optimization. Sure, putting const in parameter declarations is easy to do. It may even buy you a little bit of speed because the compiler is a little bit clearer about pointer aliasing
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by jblow 14y ago
Sometimes rigid code is simpler, sure. But what I am arguing is that it is almost never more debuggable / maintainable. What I am saying is not specific to test and branch, though test and branch is great because it gives you these big code
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by jblow 14y ago
This is true (especially: breaking vectorization). But premature optimization is not a good idea, and if you are doing real optimization, you are going to rewrite that piece of code 10 times anyway, so it is in a different class of problem
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by jblow 14y ago
No, you clearly didn't understand my point. I am talking about maximizing the rate of successful features implemented. Programming things in assembly language is obviously not going to do that. I don't know, man. I have 31 years of programm
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by jblow 14y ago
Not allowing other code in is a bad thing. See my putty reply above.
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by jblow 14y ago
My point is that when you are writing complicated production code, and you are a good programmer such that your rate of features successfully implemented is high, then you will often be going to old code and changing that code to behave som
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by jblow 14y ago
Ugh. I prefer the Carmack version. This example turns the code into something that appears more airy but in fact is much harder to understand due to extensive use of ? :. I find that one of my own major steps toward programming maturity hap
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by jblow 14y ago
Middlebrow dismissal. Believe that all of us working in video games want program execution on mobile devices to be as fast as possible. My brand-new desktop PC is not fast enough for what I want to do, so an Android phone running a bytecode
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by jblow 14y ago
I disagree. I have 16 years' experience programming in C++ (and substantial experience in other languages before that), and I find that an important factor in code clarity is not writing stuff like this. Yes, you can understand it, but it t
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by jblow 14y ago
I am sorry but I think you are posting in the wrong thread. We are talking about Christopher Nolan here.
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by jblow 14y ago
Yeah, I was mildly sympathetic until it got to the part where they said in passing "oh, unfortunately, we just sort of liquidated the company."
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by jblow 14y ago
You don't seem to provide any context about what the circle of fifths is, or even what a fifth is for, thus I have no idea why I should care, and in general it makes it very hard to assimilate the article in a useful way.
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by jblow 14y ago
As someone who worked calmly for years and made a quite reasonable amount of money, while retaining full control over everything, I must recommend the author's approach.
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by jblow 14y ago
I am pretty sure they at least need to sign it, which is why the common (overreaching and abusive) employment contracts include a clause saying that the employee will facilitate the filing of such paperwork. I think naming and shaming is a

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