psykotic

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by psykotic 15y ago
RAD's only ten programmers and that number stays more or less constant. The way everyone is hired is unique and inevitably somewhat odd. But it usually involves knowing Jeff or Jeff knowing of you for a long time and eventually he makes an
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by psykotic 15y ago
Sorry, RAD doesn't really hire in the traditional sense. If you're looking for game development work, I can see how being stuck in St. Louis must be tough. Good luck!
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by psykotic 15y ago
That's probably as much to do with different parts of the industry's expectations/requirements when it comes to on-site or off-site work.
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by psykotic 15y ago
Neat hack! But stacking sine waves with a bit of modulation isn't exactly earth-shattering. You might like to try some of these: http://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?type[]=256b&order=view... . The most impressive to date is probably Puls
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by psykotic 15y ago
The average scene coder has always been more of a creative tinkerer than a systems programmer. There's obviously a specific skill set involved in building end-user web apps (or anything else for that matter) that must be learned, but it doe
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Low-level x86 code compression for 64k intros(fgiesen.wordpress.com)
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by psykotic 15y ago
You think I'm enraged? I'm sitting here chuckling and shaking my head in bemusement at you. > I'm surprised your so proud that your team will never have a free account on the largest repository of open source. I'm not proud of it. When
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by psykotic 15y ago
You are insulted by the idea of programming puzzles in an interview situation. That's fair enough by me. But then you go on to say this: > I also happen to hire and if the candidate does not have an open source project I give them a mea
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by psykotic 15y ago
Sure, that is a huge and endemic part of the problem. But if that were all, I might believe something of the system could be salvaged. Anyway, this thread has grown too deep already, so let's end it here. Thank you for the discussion.
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by psykotic 15y ago
> If it's a common occurrence that independent researchers tend to invent similar things around the same time, then it strikes me as a positive thing for the law to bestow some advantage on whoever was first. That would tend to spur inn
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by psykotic 15y ago
You misunderstand. Ignacio's anti-patents wiki was internal-only and meant to discourage other NVIDIA employees from filing patents for ideas he had already discovered. He was the main (and for a long time the only) software guy working on
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by psykotic 15y ago
Are you a patent lawyer? A programmer? Both? I'd love to hear your own perspective on this. For background, my previous job was in a small group of researchers and programmers at NVIDIA. The company had a history of hardware patents but had
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by psykotic 15y ago
If you're asking me personally, it's because in the first case you're adding to the ever-burgeoning sea of patents and thereby increasing drag on innovation and curtailing programmer freedom. I don't think the kind of sublicensing we do wit
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by psykotic 15y ago
> It is only valid to someone who already believes patents are terribly immoral. It doesn't assume you believe patents are as immoral as slavery; I already made that specific disclaimer. It assumes that, yes, you do take strong moral e
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by psykotic 15y ago
> There's nothing objectionable about obtaining a patent--it's all about how you use it. I disagree violently. You have to consider the enormous total mass of patents in effect. The fear, uncertainty and doubt resulting from a patent be
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by psykotic 15y ago
> Your name on a patent makes your argument against the patent you have that much more effective. That is crazy talk. Here's an analogy. We're in the 19th century. Someone with analogous views to yours says an abolitionist should become
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by psykotic 15y ago
That is a big question that deserves a big answer beyond the scope of Hacker News threads. But a few points taken at random: - The handle-body idiom loosens physical coupling but adds immense overhead to both time and space. For many applic
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by psykotic 15y ago
What's this "we"? In the past I've worked on C++ code bases with millions of lines of code. But at RAD we almost exclusively work in C (and assembly, for dozens of platforms). C++ inherited C's broken model for separate compilation with all
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by psykotic 15y ago
Oh, hey, you're _that_ guy! Every thread needs one of you. Thank you so much for putting me in my place by stating the obvious!
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by psykotic 15y ago
> How you organize million line projects is an interesting topic. Does anybody have any actual links? Large Scale C++ Software Design by John Lakos is about that topic. Of course, C++ is its own special hell when it comes to physical co
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by psykotic 15y ago
The name for lathe in the Scandinavian languages translates literally into English as turning-bench. It's hard to forget its purpose and meaning with a name like that.
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by psykotic 15y ago
What am I missing? Code is data. Fix a Boolean circuit for a universal interpreter unrolled to whatever depth is needed. Send your program code and its input as the data payload and have it passed to the circuit.
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by psykotic 15y ago
>Yes, it'll get you up and running out of the box, but as you keep spinning up servers to host each store and it's database you'll have to keep adding exponential resources (hardware, software, meatware) to the problem and keep you from
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by psykotic 15y ago
> I'm saying that the levels of emotional response she's describing are so over-the-top that I find it incredibly difficult to identify with them. [...] These are not the actions of a well-balanced person who is in a difficult emotional
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by psykotic 15y ago
Sorry to be unhelpful. The specific examples I could have given you wouldn't have been useful in your personal job search and giving them would have meant betraying the confidence of close friends and acquaintances. My post's somewhat abstr
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by psykotic 15y ago
Find product companies where top-percentile individual contributors can make a huge difference to the company's bottom line and are renumerated accordingly.
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by psykotic 15y ago
To make that $200,000 you also have to pour an ungodly amount of time, effort and money into the education system, etc. Once you factor in all the relevant differences the gap is a lot smaller than it appears at first. There are many progra
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by psykotic 15y ago
Cardiologists are in the upper salary echelons of physicians. If you're a family physician or a pediatrician you probably won't make more than $200,000 per year, which isn't too far out of line with what some programmers make.
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by psykotic 15y ago
My comment was not meant to disparage James, so there's no need for you to valiantly leap to his defense. It was just an attempt at putting his observation into a wider context. :)
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by psykotic 15y ago
The modularity advantage of shared state's "spooky action at a distance" when properly employed is not a fresh insight. It's even addressed in good textbooks on programming such as van Roy and Haridi's Concepts, Techniques and Models of Com

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