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by justinhj 10y ago
I trained in taekwondo and I can say we absolutely were taught the dirty techniques. Most of the class focused on physical training and traditional moves, but often a self defence section would show how to expand the basic moves to take peo
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by justinhj 10y ago
Despite your opinions hundreds of millions of people are being entertained by free to play games right at this moment. Most of them for free. Braid was a good puzzle game but its reach is tiny in comparison. You can blame it on abusing psyc
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I don't know much about Unreal but one difference is that a game engine can use a lot of unmanaged memory for the meat of the application and then provide a managed environment on top of that for writing the game. That way a much small
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I feel like this could have been a tweet not a website
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I was one of those developers. I wrote a game in 93 that used mostly c rather than assembly because I didn't want to write it twice for Amiga and PC. At the time games were mostly assembler and it was felt that c compiled code had too
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This is a personality thing I think. Some people do want to just stick with what they know by the time they are 25 and would rather be unemployed or in management than learn something new. I'm 45. I've worked in video games for my
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by justinhj 10y ago
The idea is that containers are started to support the load of your application. If the load of your application is so low you have zero containers running most of the time you're not the target audience for this kind of service.
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Nevertheless Feynman made many successful lectures to the public and undergraduate students and was able to explain things as complex as quantum electrodynamics in layman terms. Recently I tried explaining how Akka clusters work and what pa
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by justinhj 10y ago
at school I was always lazy and selected where to put in effort. If everyone in a math class was stuck on some problem that was when I was paid attention and listened and solved it. now I work as a programmer and feel like one my biggest ad
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There are various reasons. Firstly why give a public company free advertising? Then there's the opposite problem, when a company may demand a license fee for displaying their product in a show. Then there's legal issues such as ac
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The government is cracking down on p2p investment because let's face it, that kind of model would have tremendous power in China with such a huge population that is also already comfortable spending money on their phones. The fact that
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A couple of issues here. Firstly US does not dictate Canadian rates, sadly. The fed raised interest rates recently and likely will raise then further if the conditions are right. In Canada many people, especially young people, have dangerou
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And many people that play games with micropayments are doing so for entertainment. So why not mention the main and positive reason that people play games?
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You forgot "entertainment"
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This advice probably sounds a lot better when you're not in a foreign country being shot at. Shot at people being lead by a dictator who wants to take over your country.
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Usually you have a Dockerfile to build an image then you would deploy it to servers with different run parameters. You could also have dockerfiles that take a base image and then add some environment specific configuration IMHO it's be
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Dockerfiles describe how to build an image. You can build the image on any docker host and it will be identical. The differences occur only when you run the image and it becomes a container. The way networking and file systems behave can va
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by justinhj 10y ago
In emacs frames are distinct windows on the display manager. Then you have buffers which usually are a file you are editing but also contain things like directories of files, list of buffers and messages from emacs. It's really easy to
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by justinhj 10y ago
Idioms survive hundreds of years once established and using them is not a mistake. "Head over heels" is another good example.
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by justinhj 10y ago
Off topic but "could care less" and "couldn't care less" are both idioms in common use with the same meaning
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by justinhj 10y ago
In Javascript functions are first class objects, there are closures, and higher order functions. Having a garbage collector makes it easier to implement persistent data structures. I've always thought that despite it's weird corne
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by justinhj 10y ago
I joined a company where the proof of concept had, inevitably, become the monolithic application we would work on for the next two years. Everyone on the team agreed that the monolith would be a liability so we started to share knowledge on
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by justinhj 10y ago
Hosted services doesn't really differentiate what they are. DynamoDB is a hosted service. So is EC2 and ECS.
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by justinhj 10y ago
I worked with a guy that was intermediate in his mid 30s after around 10 years experience. Conversely there was a 50 year old guy who became a programmer after he moved to my country and couldn't practice as a doctor. He was senior aft
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by justinhj 10y ago
Follow up to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11952290
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Proving the fundamental theorem of arithmetic(gowers.wordpress.com)
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I work in the video games business and for us (at least at the better companies I have worked at) the title senior programmer is not based on years of experience. Usually it entails being able to work without supervision to design and deliv
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Does it matter whether something is new or not? The fact is there are services such as AWS lambda that people are using and talking about, so we need terminology for that.
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This sounds remarkably like Dwarf Fortress. Virtually anything is possible if you're willing to spend enough time on it
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GC is also required for persistent data structures which makes it a must have for languages where immutable data is a fundamental strategy for handling concurrency.

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