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by jblow 8y ago
The idea that you would “quickly hit limits” on a 1-programmer project is completely baseless. In fact a 1-programmer project is easier without an ECS as it’s one less system whose constraints you would have to comply with at all times. Ple
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by jblow 8y ago
It is fine that people are experimenting with putting graphics on the screen and playing with new languages. But I just wanted to comment that you don't need an "Entity Component System" in a game, and especially not for a ve
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by jblow 8y ago
Also: From a market perspective, this gives agencies such as the ESA a choice about who to work with in order to launch manned flights. That's huge. It's a transition from no competition to competition, and a transition from techn
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by jblow 8y ago
I think you are underappreciating this in a big way. Prior to this, the USA did not have the capability to transport astronauts to orbit without working with Russia, and if Russia were to just decide no longer to cooperate for arbitrary dip
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by jblow 8y ago
Previous discussion: https://books.google.com/books/about/Bullshit_Jobs.html?id=i...
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by jblow 8y ago
It’s not labor? What is your definition of labor?
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by jblow 8y ago
Was there ever a time when a human being could subsist at any level of decency except through labor? Why then would you expect humans to be adapted to such a situation?
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by jblow 8y ago
Names for colors or kinds of automobile are also just labels we attach to whole spectra of related things, but the words still have meaning and we are able to use them productively.
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by jblow 8y ago
What is this hypothetical system like, and how is it different from the ones that have been tried, whose proponents would describe in a way similar to what you just said, but have been shown to have the same emptiness problem you attribute
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by jblow 8y ago
It does in this case because it's the same problem in both systems. He ascribed a problem to capitalism that is also a well-known problem of non-capitalism. The same thing happens in both places (actually worse under communism), so the
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by jblow 8y ago
If this is your thesis you’ll have to explain how e.g. Communism totally did not have this problem.
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by jblow 8y ago
Right ... the point is, I can do higher-quality reading without carrying extra devices around.
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by jblow 8y ago
I want a phone that I can read books on, and spend quality time with, rather than reading crappy stuff like Twitter. I fully expect to buy a foldable (not sure which one) and would easily pay $2500+ for it. (It's not like I can buy lap
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by jblow 8y ago
Browsers do not treat URLs as secure. If you just go to the page and happen to be live-streaming on Twitch or whatever, anyone can access the document because the information is printed visibly on the screen. This makes it starkly different
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by jblow 8y ago
> What does this have to do with C++? Given that most new C++ features in the "modern day" are implemented as std::whatever, in the "everything is a library" way, it's extremely relevant.
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by jblow 8y ago
Why not? How do you know?
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by jblow 8y ago
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
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by jblow 8y ago
Force multipliers are definitely a thing, but I think that's a different thing. You can have both at the same time.
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by jblow 8y ago
Why? The difference between average programmers and the best ones is actually much higher than 10x.
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by jblow 8y ago
Be very careful from whom you take advice. If someone is not themselves 10x, it's unlikely that what they have to say is accurate or valuable. The actual content of this article seems to be "we polled people who work on software,
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by jblow 8y ago
Indeed. If just setting integers is this complicated, what do you expect to happen when you are trying to solve real problems?
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by jblow 8y ago
Many games are like that, but some very popular games aren't.
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by jblow 8y ago
Gee, if only someone would question whether this whole “UB” thing is a good idea.
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by jblow 8y ago
I would be interested in suing them if they have a page up for me. How do I tell if they do?
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by jblow 8y ago
I would think twice about hiring someone if their previous place of work was a scam company, at least because it tells me something about that person's ethical compass.
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by jblow 8y ago
It’s exactly the opposite. If you have skills that are rare (and exist at a level below demand), you have a lot of bargaining power. Unions are for people who didn’t have much bargaining power in absence of the union.
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by jblow 8y ago
Under this logic every agency deserves to have a bigger budget until the budget is equal to the amount of money it brings in -- i.e. bloat up to maximum size. I don't think anyone wants that. It makes sense to try to keep government ag
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by jblow 8y ago
> I've no problem paying taxes, they buy me civilization. They do, but this line of argumentation is kind of vacuous if you don't include the actual cost of taxes. If taxes could be 1/3 of what everyone is paying, thus b
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by jblow 8y ago
An IRS budget of $14B means each person in the USA is paying $43 per year to fund the agency (including children). At the Federal minimum wage, after taxes, that's about a full working day to pay it off. If you have a non-working spous
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by jblow 8y ago
Union voice actors make hundreds of dollars per hour typically (a standard good but not-very-famous video game voice actor makes 2x scale).

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