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by kpil 10y ago
Yes. I think he was a rather creative developer that managed to create the game that he wanted himself as a kid. Maybe we can just sort this article under "slighly uninformed opinons" and carry on with our lives...
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by kpil 10y ago
I wonder what are the grand capabilities it lacks? Is C++ a more powerful tool filled with grand capabilities? It does not feel right, although it sure is a Swiss army knife full of sharp and pointy tools in a "Don't look into las
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by kpil 10y ago
I think you are probably correct in your first paragraph although I think it will take quite a while until we get to AI good enough that it could develop new systems autonomously. Software development is a hard problem. Even a small syste
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by kpil 10y ago
In the ancient times GNU and the free BSD programs provided a vastly better user experience than the native tools in just about every commercial Unix system. Also the window managers were at least slightly less awkward to use and at least t
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by kpil 10y ago
I agree. I actually like the hierarchical organisation, and I don't like the 10 year usability trend, particularly driven by Microsofts attempts to patch over their horrid structure with even worse workarounds. The solution to learning
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by kpil 10y ago
True. No silver bullet this time either... But right now it's a cool thing, since google is doing it. And Netflix, or whatever. Organisations are about to waste crazy amount of money on microservification of "monolithic" appl
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by kpil 10y ago
Ah. Case closed. Nothing to see here.
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by kpil 10y ago
Aha. We have 6 teams with full stack developers and testers, sharing a (too) small group of UX experts. Each group have a product owner focusing on a specific area, but there is a lot of overlap. But the general idea is to avoid big upfront
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by kpil 10y ago
It's expensive as f*ck I'd say, but you are right. You pay now or you pay later for a worse result.
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by kpil 10y ago
We are moving away from high fidelity prototypes to low-fi whiteboard sketches and prototyping in the actual application. Occasionally we do pixel perfect prototypes with clickable simulated logic and all but we can't maintain it all
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by kpil 10y ago
I came here to say that. I read this as an advertisment for agile development... It's a false savings to involve developers late, even if you have 'the competence' in the project already. I would suggest using a story mapping
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by kpil 10y ago
I think the author underestimates the inherent complexity in large scale systems. Yes, incidental complexity makes us skip tests that might have been good, but it is the inherent complexity that explodes in our face when totaly apparently u
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by kpil 10y ago
I'm sorry. Steeling food for a small amount when you are out of means and you are starving is not a crime. It seems as this is the law here in Sweden. The factors in play are that you could reasonably be expected to be helped out of da
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by kpil 10y ago
Yes. You are allowed to drive under the influence of alcohol if you are trying to save someones life. Or even shoot someone, as long as you could reasonably expect that your or someone else life was in danger. Even if it turns out that ther
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by kpil 11y ago
I think the media can only blame themselves. They are clearly driven by agenda, and biased, and misinformed. The example about Cologne just describes the fact that as the media have been very reluctant to report certain facts for well inten
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by kpil 11y ago
Yes. I actually came to think about that just recently. The whole scene popped into my mind when making coffee in the morning. It made me feel a bit dizzy actually, and it made me think of what other things that are looking more and more p
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by kpil 11y ago
Yes. I see people getting hung up on irrelevant issues. It happens to me on occasions, but some people seems to get stuck on side effects and irrelevant errors and messages. I find it to be very irritating if it happens for people that shou
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by kpil 11y ago
I was just about to write that. Was there anything like take existing at that time or did he project the trends and adding a good dose of Japanese pop culture weirdness, completely on his own?
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by kpil 11y ago
I was thinking that I wanted to build that motor using magnets, hot glue, coils, and an Arduino... Can't be that hard can it...
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by kpil 11y ago
Yes. Minor haggles occur when importing numbers into code , but all good tools can export to whatever format. Typically the internal representation is not related to the external format. But yes there are bugs in (American) programs someti
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by kpil 11y ago
I think it's more cost effective to start a new bank. But why would they. It's a lot of trouble, and being a bank gives you the right to lend in money from the public. It's still possible to provide payment services without b
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by kpil 11y ago
Yes, but you will die of cancer. If we somehow can stop aging, people will die of cancer anyway. I think we also need to figure out how to stop noses and ears from growing.
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by kpil 11y ago
The article isn't terribly clear if they are targeting the telomeres or use it just as a marker to see if whatever they tried to do actually did something.
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by kpil 11y ago
I think that before we have immortality, we need to understand and cure cancer.
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by kpil 11y ago
In this case, I guess that they aim to make a whole cocktail of therapies to counteract age related effects, so in that light it kind of makes sense, at least as a PR trick although not as a scientific study. Anyway, it reminds me that some
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by kpil 11y ago
I guess you can move an arbitrary amount of booleans (or enums) into the running state. I suppose that the very idea of variables is just to separate the state from the code so that it's possible to handle complex states in generic cod
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by kpil 11y ago
There is either a leak: The application keeps pointers to a lot of objects that are actually never going to be used. Or running out of memory: The application keeps pointers to objects that will be used later. Both problems are solvable,
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by kpil 11y ago
I'd guess that the climate in Sweden helps too, so I still think we need CRISPR. Coincidentally, there are quite many areas in Sweden were it is impossible to go outside in the summer without mosquito nets, and it is worsening.
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by kpil 11y ago
There was malaria in Sweden a couple of hundred years ago, and we still have a few mosquitos. It was never a big problem but malaria went away when it couldn't spread efficiently, largely because of better houses and hygiene such as no
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by kpil 11y ago
There is significant lattency in digital videos streams and also the render pipe. I don't know how they stream video but it can't be mpeg. Even with compressed independent frames that never spend on future frames you get the trans

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