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by phn 11y ago
Can't the same driver provide rides using any other app besides Uber? Lyft, or some other guys that show up? He could have all the apps installed and hop between them, right?
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by phn 11y ago
I don't like repeating function calls, if logic calls for complex conditions (which I don't think the example does) I find it better to express them in new booleans before the if, keeping the logic contained there, and call them o
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by phn 11y ago
Eventually google docs may become the new horrible web app :) If I am grading a text for its content, I shouldn't force students to use any particular tool. There should be more evaluation tools that confirm if the student has the skil
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by phn 11y ago
It falls apart if someone makes the document in any other tool and then pastes it on gDocs. Unless you make it a requirement to do the entire thing on that platform...
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by phn 11y ago
Yes, I understand that, the expertise point is very pertinent indeed. I am not against using available engines at all. My main point is still that this should be a decision that you make when starting a project, not one that has presumably
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by phn 11y ago
There are plenty of successful studios that have their own in-house engines. Naughty Dog, From Software, ex Kojima Productions... Besides, for simple games, using those engines are a huge overhead and an unnecessary cost. I understand what
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by phn 11y ago
I am not, and despise exploitative use of law. I believe human behavior is so complex, that defining what is acceptable or not in paper for all the possible cases is borderline impossible. Written, clear laws have their place, as does hum
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by phn 11y ago
They signed a contract. They made a deal to work without having that kind of cut. We can enter in the sympathy realm after this, but no one was entitled to anything. If they didn't like the job, or felt underpayed, they should've
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by phn 11y ago
Oh, right, I could've sworn it was the other way around, sorry for the confusion. Either way, it was pretty clear he wanted out, with what I think are valid reasons. The article makes it look like a "take a money and run", le
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by phn 11y ago
The other side of the story is that notch contacted Microsoft about the sale in the first place, and he was pretty transparent about the reason why, after it was done: http://notch.net/2014/09/im-leaving-mojang&#x2
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by phn 11y ago
Cool resource, seems awesome to find tech related stuff. However, and more related to the title than the website really, the intellectually curious should broaden their reading material to an area outside of what they do for a living. Broad
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by phn 11y ago
Honest question, is this much different than say, 10 years ago? Other than that the page seems like an interesting resource.
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by phn 11y ago
I hope the new low-level API kids on the block, like metal and vulkan, can switch the fight to actually compete in having solid GPU performance, and benefit consumers in the end. Then, maybe a GPU independent HairThing™/intermediate le
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by phn 11y ago
Honestly, it matters. Current web technologies aren't the end game solution for interfaces and, IMO, are pretty horrible to work with for that purpose. (Pretty beaten up topic by now, but lets take a moment to think for a second about
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by phn 11y ago
Because it is not web based.
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by phn 11y ago
I didn't realize I missed that version of the internet so much.
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by phn 11y ago
Of course :) Let's not stop striving for improvement though.
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by phn 11y ago
Yeah, but the will to actually not dying of AIDS should be taught somehow. Otherwise, you are covering up the problem. In a year the lottery goes away, AIDS comes up again. Just like fixing a bug superficially instead of going for the root.
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by phn 11y ago
I wouldn't, because it would be a decision by me and for me. It is precisely the manipulative aspect that I am concerned with. I am not against it, in this specific case, but the "end justifying the means" message it seems to
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by phn 11y ago
I'm not sure how I feel about using "game-y" things to convince people to do stuff, especially when we're talking about serious stuff. In Portugal a similar strategy was used to hinder tax evasion, where you got a chance
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by phn 11y ago
This is insane, I am under the impression my best work is done in 2h max bursts when my other necessities (physical, social and intellectual) are somewhat fulfilled. The long hours are a necessity if on a tight schedule, but working long ho
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by phn 11y ago
Yeah,in the presence of adequate tooling you don't need to grep logs. But how much more effort is required to use those tool-friendly loggings? Where is your god when the tool fails? For me the main reason to access plaintext logs is t
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by phn 11y ago
They could, and they have done it in the past, even with google. But if they can afford it, why depend on anyone else? I'm pretty sure they're not interested in quickly, or more features. Their users can still use other products (
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by phn 11y ago
Apple is making a smart move by not wanting to depend on anyone else. Results may suck in the beginning, but well, competing in hard stuff is hard, this is another apple maps. Hopefully they won't get bashed so hard since this is not s
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by phn 12y ago
Agile, in my understanding means "adaptive", and people often forget that part. If meetings or whatever else aren't working FOR YOUR TEAM, then don't do them. I think the retrospective is the only real cornerstone. It sh
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by phn 12y ago
I am sorry if I sounded rude, I didn't mean to knock this particular project down. I was commenting on a hypothetical future for something of its kind, and that I think HTML content is not really the way to go to make shiny WebGL thing
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by phn 12y ago
I agree that in theory, that separation is sound. But in practice, it seems no one uses it like that, and we find ourselves constantly fighting against that purity. e.g. adding extra divs just so I can center one bit of text the way I want
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by phn 12y ago
Make it feature complete and you'll get the same speed the browser has. If we're going to build a new rendering engine for the web, maybe we could try to create something nicer than HTML and CSS, whose only advantage at the presen
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The jam effect(medium.com)
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by phn 12y ago
I had never head of anything like this. Does that mean that space and time are somehow discrete instead of continuous?

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