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by jungler 8y ago
My direct experience is that the third parties doing work-for-hire gigs tend to get the worst of it, because they're disposable. When the publisher owns the studio there's some fiefdom management that takes place that allows the b
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by jungler 8y ago
Having been through dorm life in a decade past, I have to agree, it really is a consumptive experience. Being around a bunch of other 19-and-20-year-olds all day is only insightful in the sense that you get to see how poorly everyone, inclu
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by jungler 8y ago
I would hazard a guess that there is an evolutionary lineage type of thing going on here: SV companies have borrowed both workforces and managerial skills from each from the Fairchild days, and as that became increasingly VC-driven it becam
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by jungler 8y ago
I walked around the problem of replies(on Reddit/HN) by never looking at them. I have a red envelope of 150 or so now. Every once in a while I imagine something anxiety inducing about them, or catch a glimpse(and more often than not a
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by jungler 8y ago
Games offer a degree of empowerment and security to anyone feeling downtrodden: it's no surprise that they come entangled with other life issues. To deal with anything in the real world, you have to summon the energy to get up and do t
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by jungler 8y ago
I feel like Go sits in a very similar space to FPC. Go has a bigger runtime but does a good job of polishing the overall language semantics to be GC-favorable without being GC-centric. FPC is more mature, though, when you consider the large
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by jungler 8y ago
The most effective thing for my mornings has been motion. I don't "get more work done" in terms of sit and think time, rather, by making the first thing I do be jog a little, maybe pick up a coffee, and relax, then I can face
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by jungler 8y ago
Nearly any per-frame instancing tends to hit generational boundary cases due to ambiguity over lifetimes that the VM can't account for. They usually don't result in GC pauses that are large enough or frequent enough to make the ga
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by jungler 8y ago
This observation is crucial to how we approach collaborative technology, though: the assumed goal has always been to achieve lower latency and finer granularity of changes to create the experience of simultaneous editing with instant feedba
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by jungler 8y ago
This used to be the joke with solar power too. After decades of being 10 years away it became "5 years away but we're subsidizing it now" and just like that, it started scaling out to viability.
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by jungler 8y ago
That is more like an example of Blub paradox in action: You can write in everything as if it were C, you can't write C as if it were everything else. Except that it makes a point that is subtly different from the one pg originally rais
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by jungler 8y ago
I've followed Red for a long time, occasionally downloaded builds, and currently hold some of the token. As of right now I have these thoughts: * I think the focus on crypto could be a long shot, because my observation is that it'
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by jungler 8y ago
JS: Code that manipulates bits, code that needs a notion of value type structs to be well-optimized.
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by jungler 8y ago
I've been iterating from using Gdocs towards simple dated text files. Last year it was by quarter, this year it's by month. I did have trouble with maintaining sync but finally bit the bullet this year and created a DigitalOcean i
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by jungler 8y ago
Early 30's here. By chance I got really into Fortnite from nearly the moment the BR mode launched, but have also "quit" it multiple times, most recently yesterday. It has an interesting core idea for PVP multiplayer(build as
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by jungler 8y ago
When I last did some armchair thinking about transport modes my conclusion was only a little bit removed from parent's basic hypothesis, just with one critical detail: It's not that one mode will rule them all, it's that the
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by jungler 8y ago
I was gifted a Fitbit over the holidays and have been using it, essentially, to make myself get up and do household chores once an hour, 9-6, and to monitor my sleep schedule. It's led me to do more cardio and dramatically shift my sl
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by jungler 8y ago
You may have been using a cabinet with a replacement monitor. The vector monitors are a bit special, so after their heyday it would have been harder to find parts.
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by jungler 8y ago
Lots of people, myself included, implement a Forth without really using it. That makes it sound like a toy, but it's more like an important lesson in programming concisely and choosing a comfortable level of abstraction for the problem
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by jungler 8y ago
Even the motherboards have gotten better over time. I recall being over at a friend's house in the early 2000's and he was saying, "my speakers are so bad, I guess I need new ones" and I said, "wait, try plugging th
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by jungler 8y ago
Not parent, but I can chime in with my current system: Simple logs that I can search and copy. The key for me is that it's not about the format. The format changes with the context: I have a different logging strategy for fitness(Fitno
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by jungler 8y ago
This article comes from someone who is well-credentialed but not in the specific topic of Vitamin D. His attribution of its current popularity is based on a flawed hypothesis: That the current popularity surrounding it is about fracture cas
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by jungler 8y ago
My understanding of AAA game engine coding concurs with this analysis. It's become increasingly common to get more frames of graphics rendered in the same time span by kicking off the next frame before the first has finished, which can
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by jungler 8y ago
Once you are somewhat experienced with optimization, the difficult part isn't getting into the mindset of optimizing, but in holding off on it until your features are in. Before you have the features, you mostly want to find the bounda
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by jungler 8y ago
Do it like any other sport: go back to basics and play in a restricted style. Go through Knuth AOCP. You don't have to work every problem(nobody really does) but the book is there to point you towards fundamental computing concepts. St
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by jungler 8y ago
I think it's philosophically interesting. The Go approach to needing a more powerful language is to assume that you actually want to write a custom code generator for your project's needs. And it's not pretty to do so(the &qu
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by jungler 8y ago
I basically use the same kind of hesitance around automation when making programming decisions: 1. Automate for spec and quality first(make it work, get it right, make it fast) 2. Add opt-outs(write to the limits of your debug system, apply
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by jungler 8y ago
Although I haven't seen the movie, other coverage of Alex Honnold has definitely got my mind going on this topic. He's an excellent example of a personality eminently suited to the task.
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by jungler 8y ago
That's because he comes from a domain where mutable state is a necessary thing in making the different parts of game logic feed into each other. It is the focus of debugging. The actual computations around what changed can be pure, but
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by jungler 8y ago
Here's a thing I've noticed about achievement, in sports and e-sports more so than in business, but I believe the same applies. What separates the high achievers, apart from any basic talent and training, is a personality that doe

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