paradigmshiv

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by paradigmshiv 8y ago
The teeth is what bothers me
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by paradigmshiv 8y ago
In case anyone doubts how revolutionary some of these games were, check out these fan letters from the Wolfenstein source: As a former POW (Vietnam), I hesitated to play WOLF for over a month after downloading as I feared flashbacks. I di
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by paradigmshiv 8y ago
There is some cleverness going on behind the scenes, so for a large database you wouldn't necessarily have the whole thing in memory at once. But one of the big selling points of Datomic is that you get to treat the entire database as
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by paradigmshiv 8y ago
Datomic is an immutable database, written in Clojure. It's pretty cool, you should check it out. The company behind Datomic (Cognitect, which also develops the Clojure language) recently started offering the database as a cloud service
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by paradigmshiv 8y ago
> I wonder how many police officer killings are due to "suicide by cop". I don't think this is really relevant, because "suicide by cop" is a great reason why police should not take the lead in responding to suic
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by paradigmshiv 9y ago
Ehh.... I worked for a long time as a mechanic on diesel engines. The engines are designed to conform with emissions requirements as they are written, not necessarily to be more efficient or cleaner. And of course some auto manufacturers ha
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by paradigmshiv 11y ago
This is basically what I do. I'm a supervisor for a county government, and spend a lot of my day at a desk waiting for the phone to ring. I'm still learning to code, so it helps to actually do something other than think sometimes.