mvindahl

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by mvindahl 10y ago
I have never worked with Unity so I wouldn't know. That being said, I think there may be a niche for visual programming tools when developing visual stuff. I'm old enough to remember Delphi, and also I made a few games in Flash ba
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I'm pretty sure that Fred Brooks addressed the topic of visual programming in either The Mythical Man Month (1975) or in No Silver Bullet (1986). I can't remember his exact wording but I think the gist of it was that it was an ide
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by mvindahl 10y ago
This is a pretty accurate description of my motivation for doing side projects. Corporate pays well if you are willing to work on maintaining their existing projects; the catch is that you'll often be working with languages and framewo
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by mvindahl 10y ago
I used to program demos for the C64 back in my teens. A lot of the learning was simply reverse engineering the code from other demos, sometimes verbatim copying snippets, always trying to understand. At age 16 I was pretty confident that I
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by mvindahl 10y ago
Pretty much same system here in .dk. I remember when I was a child back in the 1980s and my dad went through the annual ritual of filing taxes. It was a big hairy mess of papers accompanied with colourful cusswords. These days it's jus
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by mvindahl 10y ago
Joel on Software is a brilliant blog. Read through all the posts a couple of years back, all of them were interesting and well written; a lot of them were solid gold.
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by mvindahl 10y ago
I suppose that if markets were working in a very ideal way, the IPO stock price wouldn't matter much to the stock price half a year from now. Instead, the share price would be a pure function of the internal value and prospects of the
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by mvindahl 10y ago
In Denmark, at least at the uni where I went in the 1990s, courses would use certain books which we were expected to purchase. Also, the university offered access to photocopiers at reasonable rates. Using photocopied books was not official
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by mvindahl 10y ago
I once invested in a can of Pringles. Hours later, it's value was down to zero. A terrible financial decision.
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by mvindahl 10y ago
We all laughed at the notion om moon people dropping rocks at the earth. Then they started dropped rocks on S3 and who is laughing now?
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by mvindahl 10y ago
The recruiting industry being what it is, I'm sure that the future holds plentys of job opportunities for people who can invert binary trees on whiteboards. Or, on a more serious note, there will also be jobs for anyone with skills and
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by mvindahl 10y ago
They probably don't but still kind of hard to be sure. In principle they could introduce it at any given time without anyone noticing for a while. Of course, once someone does notice, the shit will hit the fan. Anyway, I share your nag
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by mvindahl 10y ago
I'd say define some side projects and try out different stuff for rendering the UI. Start out with a rendering library, not a framework. Check out stuff like react, preact, vue, inferno, mithril and pick the one which makes the best fi
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by mvindahl 10y ago
Back in the day, I spent a fair amount of time playing Minecraft at the hard level. I did OK but my sister consistently beat me by large margins, completing in about 2/3 of the time that I used. It was a bit frustrating to be beaten th
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by mvindahl 10y ago
Trying to grasp the concepts here. But if I understand pipelining correctly, it's a great boost for a single browser making a million requests but won't really help you in dealing with a million browsers firing one request each. I
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by mvindahl 10y ago
Life of Brian
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> DVD-with-unskippable-ads A pet peeve of mine. Fortunately, according to my religious beliefs, there is an extra circle in hell which addresses the issue. As hell goes, it's fairly benign, no fire or sulphur or pointy things, more
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by mvindahl 10y ago
> "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" started as a low-budget picture rendered on Macs. In that film, if nobody touches it, it's CG. Ended up costing $70 million. Worldwide box office $50 million. Fail. "Iron Sky
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by mvindahl 10y ago
Holding individuals accountable for for what the government of their country did three decades ago is a slippery slope.
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by mvindahl 10y ago
I use it like a kind of mental stack or breadcrumb. The tabs most relevant to my current task are on the right, usually no more than three. The rest of the tabs is how I got there, occasionally serving as references. Once I get to the point
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by mvindahl 10y ago
I think Samsung tried that approach
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by mvindahl 10y ago
The article makes some excellent points. However I'm not sure I understand how acquiring Trello would save JIRA. First off, I'm not sure that JIRA is in need of saving. IMHO it has grown to become a very bloated product which very
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by mvindahl 10y ago
Absolutely agree. I've helped maintain REST APIs in both Java and NodeJS at different points in time. Doing so in Java was always a painful iterative process; ask the ORM for data, painstakingly map the data to Java DTOs created mostly
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by mvindahl 10y ago
I quickly skimmed the blog post. Seems to be about reading.
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Also, they all seem to be changing objectives and speed at random. In my experience (European highways), it's usually pretty easy to categorize other cars into different patterns of behaviour, such as "wants to move as fast as pos
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by mvindahl 10y ago
Story reminds me of the time that I literally squished a CPU with a fan. Being fairly inexperienced with those things, I had somehow managed to turn the fan 180 degrees before forcefully attaching it to the CPU. I even remember the hassle i
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- Appreciating constructive feedback as an opportunity to learn, not to become defensive - Taking to heart how chance plays a large role on short term success but doing things right plays a large role for long term success (playing backgamm
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One point not covered by the article is how reading real world code will also help set realistic expectations, especially if you are a relative newbie. The truth is that there is a lot of code in the world, even in popular frameworks and li
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by mvindahl 10y ago
Hmm.. may depend upon the granularity that you need I guess. As far as I recall, databases do implement access control at table level, but often you need better control than that. In the system that I most recently worked on we had to imple
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