lincolnq

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by lincolnq 17y ago
[Cambridge, MA] Demiurge Studios is where I work. We're a 40-man game development shop working on some well-known titles as well as some new ones. We have some really good people, and lots of C++ work to be done. (We're also hiring designer
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by lincolnq 17y ago
This is what tipped me off (due to its attractiveness -- making me think "wow, this fits TOO well"): Initially, Udo's aim was to devise a method for determining who would reach heaven. He assumed each person's soul was composed of independ
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by lincolnq 17y ago
Cool! But the OED disagrees: http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/few The wikipedia article says that using fewer for counting nouns is fairly new: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewer_vs._less So I guess you're probably right, and it's n
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by lincolnq 17y ago
I knew almost nothing about Friendster and I found the article captivating. Maybe you already knew the important bits?
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by lincolnq 17y ago
Yes, those are good features. The trouble was that it was the all-purpose data exchange tool for a long time, and everyone has seen XML put to all sorts of ungodly purposes. If it were invented today, nobody would be bashing it, because it
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by lincolnq 17y ago
I don't think karma is deserved for either of our posts. They both add to the noise. But I'm trying to reduce the overall noise (in a way which has more impact than downvoting) and you're increasing it. (voters: all the posts in this thread
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by lincolnq 17y ago
Well, if you really want to know, post your YC application. I'm sure people would read it (at least I would) and give feedback. It won't tell you definitively why YC turned you down, but it will probably get you a lot of interesting feedbac
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by lincolnq 17y ago
Hmm. I think your comment sets a bad tone for the discussion, especially as the top-rated comment. While I wouldn't want to back many of these startups as they're written, I think some of them have potential to be grown into a viable busine
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by lincolnq 17y ago
"You clone your code repository with 'hg clone'. Now you can clone your development environment with 'vagrant up'." (Do I have the right idea?)
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by lincolnq 17y ago
If you change a parameter, then you are changing the interface, and it makes sense that that affects recompilation. Changing the type is an interesting one. If you change the backing class from one type to another, but you were using an int
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by lincolnq 17y ago
They make compilation of the macro's clients depend on the implementation of the macro, and therefore those clients must be recompiled when the macro changes. In Java, there's no expectation that changing the implementation of a method in o
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by lincolnq 17y ago
Yeah, I agree somewhat. The current problems are security, upload bandwidth, and NAT traversal. As well as that your computer has to be on whenever your friends are accessing your stuff. If (when) ipv6 becomes widespread, we will be able to
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by lincolnq 17y ago
Implicit type conversion is often noted as a misfeature of C++ and PHP. I've never used them in Scala myself, but they are highlighted as a positive feature of Scala in this article, and I am inclined to believe the author when he says they
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by lincolnq 17y ago
Ah, well, then you're fucked. My point is not that you should consider it a good idea to make your own proprietary language, just that that situation can sometimes be a really good, productive one. (I'm dealing with this in my work -- we us
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by lincolnq 17y ago
From the article: "Clearly, 100s of users can’t be wrong." Oh, yes. Yes, they can. :)
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by lincolnq 17y ago
"simplicity, immediacy, and interactivity": yes, absolutely. I used to learn with VB code, many years ago. Dragging a button onto the form, double-clicking it, and entering MsgBox "Hello!" Command1.Caption = "Hello!!!" And then cli
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by lincolnq 17y ago
I don't think so. I don't see any functional reactive stuff in Luna, whereas that's the whole point of Flapjax... Edit: reading more closely, I see why you say that -- "incremental computing" link makes me think of FRP a little bit. But the
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by lincolnq 17y ago
Uhm, if the guy down the hall WROTE the language, that's gonna be a hell of a lot more useful than posting to a mailing list. Especially if you can't post your secret source code, so instead you have to spend a lot of time coming up with a
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by lincolnq 17y ago
Wow! I like this. "Cognitive fluency" is a concept that I've felt should exist for a long time (but, amusingly, have had no words to describe). It's a reason why I believe in the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguis
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by lincolnq 17y ago
Wow. That Amazon email really breaks my expectations. I expect no-reply emails when it is obvious that a robot sent them, but when it's signed with a person's name, I am VERY surprised to see that you can't reply.
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by lincolnq 17y ago
I guess if I had five days to produce a "tech discovery" document like you describe for a non-technical audience, it would be breaking down the tasks and providing detailed estimates. Software estimation is very hard; I'm no good at it, but
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by lincolnq 17y ago
to grannyg00se (author of dead sibling of this comment): you appear to have been put on some sort of HN shit-list where your posts are being autokilled. You should email pg and ask him to remove the ban.
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by lincolnq 17y ago
Yes -- much more reliably. The testers on my team save me so much time . My code runs on six platforms. Every time I switch platforms it takes a lot of time and energy to switch physical and mental contexts. I have no hope of thoroughly te
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by lincolnq 17y ago
Interesting. The capitalization on "Code Contracts" (as opposed to "code contracts") suggests to me that it's a proper noun, and your interpretation didn't occur to me until I read the comments. Since you've been upvoted many times, a lot o
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by lincolnq 17y ago
It looks like a fairly powerful static analysis framework, well beyond what the C# type system can prove. Not sure what exactly it can do, but the static checker dialog box allows you to enable: Implicit Non-Null Obligations Implicit
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by lincolnq 17y ago
Well, it's only a Bad Thing if you consider releasing "exploit code" bad. (I wouldn't even classify this as exploit code, but...) After reading this, Tor users can decide whether they want Java applets (or any scripts, really) running on we
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by lincolnq 17y ago
Change keyboard layouts if you have ergo problems, like I did. Don't change for speed; you won't gain any. If you are finding that your keyboard is slowing you down while you code, though, consider changing your tools -- get a new programmi
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by lincolnq 17y ago
Possible answer to the post title: Their quiz-taking webapp is terrible. You can't retake the quiz or review previous questions, and can only try each question once, and if you go back and choose a different radio button as an answer for a
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by lincolnq 17y ago
I'd be interested to see what fraction of the leaderboard users' karma comes from comments vs. stories.
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by lincolnq 17y ago
1) Charles Stross (cstross) reads and comments here on HN, so be nice :) 2) That was the whole point of Accelerando. That said, I really liked Halting State and Saturn's Children, but not Accelerando as much (it was too crazy for me).

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