momocowcow

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by momocowcow 1y ago
To the trash heap you snappy applications. Thank god for electron based IDEs. Needless complexities have simply crept in other parts of the machine.
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by momocowcow 1y ago
Why are we now using Discord instead of this? I never had performance issues with text based irc clients.
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by momocowcow 1y ago
Why the downvotes on this one?
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by momocowcow 1y ago
Nice clean journalistic blurb from NPR. Case close! Too much food makes you fat, not genetics. Until the next article in a month.
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by momocowcow 1y ago
This. I’ve seen businesses where sending a crew to a very remote location in the wilderness (natural resources, oil, mining, etc) is very cost prohibitive. The less time spent over there figuring out what’s up, the better. They’ll have soft
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by momocowcow 1y ago
This statement explain his position very clearly. Anyone who did any serious DOS programming understands it well. "A debugger is how you get a view into a system that's too complicated to understand. I mean, anybody that thinks ju
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by momocowcow 1y ago
For a moment I thought I was reading the companion article to «I let Claude Code write an entire book»
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by momocowcow 1y ago
Read the quake pvs article linked to in this thread. On top of my head as I remember it.. one of the reasons for Quake's use of a bsp was to allow back to front rendering of the world geometry without the use of a zbuffer. This was req
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by momocowcow 1y ago
Exactly, I played through underworld on a 386 16mhz. Being an rpg, the lower fps was much more tolerable than in Doom, which was in fact unplayable.
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by momocowcow 1y ago
These aren't persuasion methods but techniques to exploit common cognitive biases. One thing I learned by reading Cialdini's "Influence" book is to call out such tricks when exposed to them. Hopefully, none of this is re
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by momocowcow 1y ago
There are no native Czech speakers in their management. It's a similar story as the Yandex guys going off to Nebius Group in the Netherlands after the invasion.
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by momocowcow 2y ago
You are still not testing if they can code. But whether under the scrutiny of another person, they can code. Maybe this is important to you, maybe peer programming is important to you for example. I remember a young dev who couldn’t pass su
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by momocowcow 2y ago
See food packaging laws. Natural versus artificial flavorings :)
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by momocowcow 2y ago
Exactly, I remember the game for not being technically impressive upon release. 2D games were looked down upon in 1998. I worked at another game studio at the time of release and all our titles under production were 3D. We played the hell o
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by momocowcow 2y ago
Future Crew working on a 3d accelerator? To demosceners at the time, it was obvious this would become the winning offering in the video card world :))
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by momocowcow 3y ago
I’ve been ghosted a few times over the years. It stung at first but now that I have grey hair, I no longer take it personally. I actually started ghosting job offers and invitation to continue to the next phase of the interview process. If
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by momocowcow 5y ago
First job. Joined a large multinational in the late 90s. Every new hire was given about $20k of in the money options right away. Option buy price at $20, share price at around $40. Within a year the SEC was investigating the top bosses. Sto