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by justinhj 10y ago
The article indicates use of a slab cache which means that all the socket structures will be together in memory.
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by justinhj 10y ago
AWS doesn't do everything for you and probably never will because people have different needs. What is dying is the more manual side of ops. Ops guys that aren't comfortable writing a bit of code are in danger of falling behind.
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That's a fair point :) Fannie Mae and Circuit City being among them. The question is did they abandon the principles described in the book or die due to unforeseeable circumstances?
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I think it's a comforting thought that people only succeed because of exceptional luck but that doesn't make it true. Worship is a problem, but methodical research of the sort that went into "Good to Great" is not.
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About 5
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After three spelling and grammar errors I stopped reading.
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It often takes 10-15 years on the stand up circuit to get to where they are
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I don't think I saw it as an attempt to be original or funny. It's more interesting and educational in that it shows how to do build up a simple program from the very limited operations of lands calculus.
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Lisp languages are not even functional programming languages, they're mostly general purpose. Lisps are interesting for other reasons such as the s-expression syntax being similar to the AST, lists and other data structures as first cl
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Consider how long php has been used on the backend, and it's only getting more popular, there's your answer.
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by justinhj 10y ago
I don't mind Vancouvers overcast gloom at all because it's such a beautiful place to live. I'm from rural England though.
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Most likely most games are updating only game related data and graphics files. Very few games actually use internal scripting that would be needed to do code updates
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by justinhj 10y ago
Is the map dynamic as in it changes in an unpredictable way all the time? If that's the case the best you can do maybe to path find in the static parts then try your best to follow the path while avoiding things nearby. If the map pred
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Not to take anything away from the work but I think the title is misleading. A* is an optimal algorithm for graph search so you cannot make it 100x faster. What this does is make path finding faster by changing the structure of the graph.
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Anything that you can easily specify and describe in detail can be automated. In practise the world is filled with computers that need programming to cope with ever changing chaotic actions of our users. Personally I'm long on software
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Maybe this idea of worth is hardwired inside us. As animals that existed in small groups throughout the world there was much work to be done in the daily activities of hunting, cooking, fixing and building shelters, raising children and pos
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by justinhj 10y ago
True but they can still do so with an Android emulator like Andy
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Abstraction, intuition, and the “monad tutorial fallacy” (2009)(byorgey.wordpress.com)
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I work at a mobile games company called IGG
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by justinhj 10y ago
Some experience to share: I studied Scala and FP on the side before jumping to a team that was using it in production. Most of the engineers on the team have an enthusiasm to learn about and use fp. Bi-weekly we have a book club where we ta
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by justinhj 10y ago
I don't know why this comment is downvoted, it's absolutely true in my experience.
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by justinhj 10y ago
Or just use IntelliJ and you can reload classes while your program is running if you want. Sbt is a very powerful tool but it's not written with readability for new users in mind.
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by justinhj 10y ago
Scala: val nospaces = "a string with spaces" filter { _ != ' ' }
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by justinhj 10y ago
This is great advice. Try lots of activities until you find one you want to do, long term.
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by justinhj 10y ago
Interesting comparison because the median salary of Des Moines is $62k whereas downtown Vancouver is just $67k CAD or around $50k USD The earning potential in Vancouver is a joke compared to SF.
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Yeah there was no floating point for a while on consoles. I remember spending a week or two making a renderer that subdivided geometry so the textures would tear less. It was more expensive so had to be done based on view distance.
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If you click the buttons at the top they take you through to english pdfs
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The trick to git is figuring out the subset of commands that make it work like a Volvo
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I think that's fine. I wouldn't recommend serious use of a language that targets the jvm without a decent knowledge of Java
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by justinhj 10y ago
"baroquesque abomination" is a very colourful but somewhat unfair description of Scala. I've been using it in production for a few years now and I find it can be quite pretty if you're careful, and is quite readable once

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