mr_luc

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by mr_luc 8y ago
"Skiing" -- a physics bug that could cancel out friction with the ground, which (together with the game's wide open terrain and jetpacks) was so beloved by the community that it became the identifying movement mechanic of the
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by mr_luc 8y ago
Oh, yeah, I remember reading about that! I think that's seeped into my head as 'leading reason we think we have an appendix.' This is the great thing about HN -- there's a very good change somebody will come along and up
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by mr_luc 8y ago
Also, an up to 80% reduction in the biomass of fish stocks over the course of the past couple of centuries.
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by mr_luc 9y ago
I would think I'd rather avoid the whole issue via nerfing hitscan and high-velocity-projectile weapons, and buffing lower-velocity-projectile and melee weapons. There have been successful FPS games with that formula (Tribes comes to m
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by mr_luc 9y ago
But why would you exclude of marketplace and AWS? That's where rivers of money come from to help them enter into new categories! Setting any of the major parts aside would disregard the benefits Amazon reaps from being so integrated. F
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by mr_luc 9y ago
I'm not an expert, but I've gotten used to CRDTs being available in Elixir-land (Phoenix.Tracker, in phoenix_pubsub). But I don't believe >40 or so nodes has never been Erlang's strong point. Edit: with the conclusion
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by mr_luc 9y ago
So, a lot of people are annoyed by Wolfram, but this is relevant as I think that's something that Wolfram does in his free time: http://blog.wolfram.com/2007/09/11/my-hobby-hunting-for-our-...
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by mr_luc 9y ago
There are optional type annotations that are supported by docs and compile-time tools. But if you don't mind me nerd-sniping you ... someone's done something a bit crazier recently. It's called Elmchemy[1], which lets you wri
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by mr_luc 9y ago
I think the argument is that you 'need other people' because those people can vote. The theory is that this ensures that automation is socially benevolent. The theory is that increasing leverage continues to produce even more supe
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by mr_luc 9y ago
60fps on an early 2014 macbook Air. Which is surprising.
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by mr_luc 9y ago
Shouldn't this be qualified by adding "beyond room-scale?" Because when VR/IRL movement are the same, there's no need to fool the body's systems.
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by mr_luc 9y ago
In part, it's probably because ever since the os360 project we've known that communications overhead in programming projects does increase more-than-linearly with the number of collaborators.
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by mr_luc 10y ago
I'm actually using a similar stack to you today -- redux + sagas, flow, json-schema. However, in my experience, Vuex also has explicit stores and clear points for mutation -- Vuex stores are really clear and composable. It's also
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by mr_luc 10y ago
Agreed. I've used Angular 2, React+Redux, and now Vuejs on different projects (and on personal projects, stuff like om, elm, etc). Vuejs feels like they cheated somehow. For people in Redux-land: they took the reactivity of MobX and ga
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by mr_luc 10y ago
Agree that brand is a finicky and powerful beast. And I picked Starbucks because it's the most ambitious example I could think of. It will be a while before UX and polish of any automated (or mostly hands-off) storefront could compete
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by mr_luc 10y ago
The state of the art for self-serve is low right now; it's like comparing a servant to a hand-cranked washing machine (current coffee vending machine experience). But if you compare to modern models that go quietly to work and have aff
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by mr_luc 10y ago
I agree. One place where application-level consensus is fairly common is in Elixir applications, mostly thanks to the crdt implementation that's nicely wrapped up by Phoenix.Tracker in the phoenix_pubsub library. This is used by the Ph
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by mr_luc 10y ago
I agree that things won't change enough in service jobs to matter by 2019. But as to this: > The tech necessary to replace front line service workers is not there. If it was we'd all be buying one ... what happens when ... some
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by mr_luc 10y ago
Yeah - I dislike Uber's tactics as much as the next guy, and the Waymo lawsuit is nuclear. But they're spending money like crazy because they still feel like it's getting them "upwind" in ways that will be lasting.
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by mr_luc 10y ago
This reminds me of a moment from the book "Against All Enemies," where Colin Powell, when asked behind closed doors about the dangers from chemical agents if the Iraqis had them, rolled his eyes a bit, and said that they were &quo
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by mr_luc 10y ago
Agreed. I'm on GCP whenever I get to pick. For anyone else who is on AWS (maybe because of rds postgres, or because it's client work that needs to be on AWS), you can go outside of vanilla AWS to get a similarly great dev UX. I&#x
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by mr_luc 10y ago
I remember (from building a sentiment analysis irc bot[1] back in the day that used the afinn wordlist) that sentiment analysis is effective because robots can do mid-70%-accurate classification, but humans only agree around 80% of the time
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by mr_luc 10y ago
Maybe. But if the creation of a small, passionate audience happens naturally during the creation of any sufficiently good product, is it that much of an obstacle?
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by mr_luc 10y ago
Yeah - if I had to handle requirements more towards the painful end of the scale I would probably say Agent + Event Store. Ie, ephemeral process(es) representing the user on the server side, with the ability to cache up to a certain amount
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by mr_luc 10y ago
And that can be the case just as much even if there is no simple win-win solution to the problem. One can hate the rules -- for their injustice, ineffectiveness, abstract immorality, etc -- and at the same time realize that the rules are an
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by mr_luc 10y ago
This was an interesting period of history, and I'm really looking forward to reading Kilt For Hire ! I can't believe there's a book about Gardener now. I always try to make a pair of books for a period I'm interested in
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by mr_luc 10y ago
I have a few favorites, but by and large I got those favorites from from Make It Stick, which I've reread a few times now. It's the best view-from-10k feet (written by 3 learning/memory researchers) I could have hoped for in
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by mr_luc 10y ago
I'd like to piggyback on this to also call out, for people interested in this sort of thing, that this hyper-stabilization or mastery training (which is like developing muscle memory, maybe literally in the case of musicians learning a
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by mr_luc 10y ago
Agreed. I make software for or with advertising companies from time to time, and I love this to death. I see a surprising number of comments on HN taking this seriously, too. This might be one of those rare situations where HN plays the str
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by mr_luc 10y ago
Thanks. This is a great summing-up of the essay. FWIW, I've seen 3 or 4 "rebuttals" of pg essays, and they all read about the same. For instance, one pg essay mentions how large glossy magazines all cost about the same, and h

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