olivierva

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by olivierva 4y ago
That's exactly what I do, don't mind hanging out once a week if you're up for it
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by olivierva 5y ago
Here is a review: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-02-05-sleep-is-death...
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by olivierva 5y ago
Why not share the seed of the map? This in combination with the coordinates visible on screen would make it possible to check if there is cheating involved. It would be even better if the seed was generated and handed out by a trusted party
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by olivierva 6y ago
Although the color of the card is black the official name is Centurion
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by olivierva 6y ago
You're disappointed with the Silicon Valley bubble, not technology perse
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by olivierva 9y ago
A variation on Brownian Motion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_motion
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by olivierva 9y ago
The Go network stack already makes use of epoll and kqueue: https://golang.org/src/runtime/netpoll_epoll.go So I'm not quiet sure why this would be faster since almost all I/O in Go is event driven, inc
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by olivierva 9y ago
I think a new Half Life game would be the perfect opportunity for Valve to showcase their virtual reality kit. So far there are no blockbuster VR games and the Half Life franchise (Portal included) has a history of being very innovative (e.
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by olivierva 9y ago
Look another product they will retire in about a years time.
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by olivierva 9y ago
And don't forget simplicity as a core design feature of the language. That alone is worth sacrificing generics for ;-)
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by olivierva 9y ago
Efficiency: I do my thinking/coding/building/writing (not writing emails) in the morning before anyone comes in and can interrupt me. I plan all meetings (which I don't consider proper work) in the afternoons. In short:
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by olivierva 10y ago
Totally true, I sit at my desk at 7am work till 6pm. The kids come in at 11am and do oh so much over time when working till 7pm. And don't get me started about their relationship problems. And this happy hour is the worst social thing
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by olivierva 10y ago
Knowing when to stop is one of the most important things about delivering a project. After trying this method a couple of times I think many will have learned when to draw the line.
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by olivierva 10y ago
I do like it when people set themselves challenges like this. Clear beginning and end, finishing something in combination with iterative learning is very satisfying. A bit like a hackaton or a game jam. But this made me think, because in a
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by olivierva 10y ago
I couldn't agree more. I just got hired to 'productionize' some proof of concept developed by data scientists in jupyter notebooks. The first thing I did was hiring a Python developer (no data science experience) to start cle
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by olivierva 10y ago
Slightly off topic: They still can't build proper software. Academics (including mathematicians) are notoriously bad at writhing production grade software. This leads to handovers of 'proof of concepts' to seasoned software d