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by lastofus 10y ago
This is a PDF of the 1st edition of another book by the same author. There is a 2nd edition, which is an excellent but outdated text covering 2D game programming.
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by lastofus 10y ago
Worked for me as well in MKE area: 21 Mbps
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by lastofus 10y ago
What you are wanting is this book: "Tricks of the 3D Game Programming Gurus" by Andre LaMothe. The book teaches you how to write a 3D software rasterizer from first principles. The first part of the book is nothing but a well writ
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by lastofus 10y ago
I've found work from both friends and recruiters. People love to hate on recruiters, and for good reason. If you can find a handful that are not terrible though, they can send along 3-6 month contracts. I've also been connected wi
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by lastofus 10y ago
Getting un-stuck from working for a single employer for 5+ years and moving into consulting/contract work. I work fewer hours for more money, and have a very flexible schedule which lets me work on my own company and side projects. I f
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by lastofus 10y ago
This is a great suggestion as long as you don't give recruiters access directly. Talk to recruiters, ask them for good jobs that you yourself add to a curated job board that your dev audience has access to. You can probably negotiate ~
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by lastofus 10y ago
Can you explain more about using Node for the front end? Do you mean you use `npm` for front-end package management, or are you running a Node server process along side your Go process on the backend?
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by lastofus 10y ago
The pseudo-code of BFS is all of 20 lines, and that's accounting for a graph possibly containing cycles. A graph without cycles (such as a tree) would be even simpler/shorter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bre
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by lastofus 10y ago
"Deep C Secrets" is quite good. http://www.amazon.com/Expert-Programming-Peter-van-Linden/dp...
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by lastofus 11y ago
I'm still excited about Python/Django, though everything I have to say about it would be just as true for Ruby/RoR. It's a great language to work with built on top of a solid framework that's been around for a decad
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by lastofus 11y ago
Without founder level equity in the company, it's simply time to move on. Life is too short to keep working a job that you are not happy at, especially if you are in the lucky minority of people with highly sought after skills.
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by lastofus 11y ago
If coming here as a software developer, something to keep in mind is that a majority of the dev jobs here are .NET.
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by lastofus 11y ago
Doing too much of it and developing chronic RSI. Take breaks!
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by lastofus 11y ago
If they required of you to implement once-and-only-once reliable delivery of messages over a network, then I would argue they don't really understand the problem themselves. This blog post does a pretty good job of describing the probl
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by lastofus 11y ago
This is a non-trivial problem, assuming they really do want this to be a network server. For instance, it did not specify if they wanted "at most once vs at least once" delivery specifications (I'm guessing they wanted to see
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by lastofus 11y ago
Other than the existing review sites, I really don't have any way to know. The only way for me to find out is to set an appointment, hence why I would love a better way.
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by lastofus 11y ago
I recently moved to another state and decided I need to find a doc. I've had the hardest time trying to find a doc, but at the same time I don't have a large social network local to the area to draw upon. My concerns in order of i
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by lastofus 11y ago
6 figures is the exception, but it's far from impossible in Milwaukee and Madison writing code.
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by lastofus 11y ago
This is easier to do when getting hired on as a long term contractor for development work.
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by lastofus 11y ago
As a back-end dev who recently took on creating an SPA for work, I ended up learning and using React/Redux/Babel/Webpack. I pretty much hated every min of it, and there's a fair chance things will break if I update any o
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by lastofus 11y ago
Do you value your education as a way of learning, or as a way to gain better employment opportunities? What do you see yourself doing after school, what what is your motivation for pursuing that path? What country are you studying in, and w
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by lastofus 11y ago
Perhaps you could split development along front-end/backend lines. One dev uses whatever backend stack they want, and the other does all the HTML/CSS/JS.
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by lastofus 11y ago
Developers are in very high demand. Finding a new job is a pain but very doable. Getting stuck in a rut in life is 100x worse.
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by lastofus 11y ago
After 2 decades of programming, I rarely feel creative while programming. While designing an app or UI/UX sure, but rarely while coding. For me, 90% of coding feels like being a human constraint solver. Take the intersection of tech be
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by lastofus 11y ago
It might be worth picking up some CS textbooks if you are someone who can learn from books well. Things that have helped me the most from my CS degree: * Learning the internals of operating systems and the UNIX API (Modern Operating Systems
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by lastofus 11y ago
All the same, studying the design decisions that went into Erlang/OTP/Beam is a great place to start. One of the hardest things to deal with is learning how to deal with all the different permutations of failure cases that can hap
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by lastofus 11y ago
What does illegal domestic surveillance by the NSA have to do with recent attacks across the pond? Are you asking if we now feel more ok with our rights being violated, because we are so damn scared for our own safety after what happened in
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by lastofus 11y ago
Contact them and politely notify them the free trial period is for X days, their 2nd trial account will be disabled in 5 business days, and that you would be happy to help transition them to a paid account. There's no need to "acc
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by lastofus 11y ago
I sometimes like to pick a module, set a breakpoint in a debugger, and start stepping through it to see where it takes me.
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by lastofus 11y ago
How does one bypass the kernel for network and disk IO? I've never heard of doing this before (e.g. IO is always a system call)

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