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by psykotic 15y ago
Erik Naggum's paper The Long, Painful History of Time is a must-read: http://naggum.no/lugm-time.html
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by psykotic 15y ago
Spider and Web is one of my favorite examples. It plays to the medium's unique strengths in ways that will be obvious to anyone who goes through most of it. It's also a fairly short game.
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by psykotic 15y ago
200 should be doable in spurts; I've hit 175 WPM in rounds of Type Racer. But my sustained typing speed over longer periods of time is much, much lower than that.
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by psykotic 15y ago
> they usually get a typing speed of 200wpm or so Impressive. The world record sustained typing speed is around 180 WPM. :) Playing MUDs definitely helped my typing speed but so did live chatting with BBS sysops, programming and just ge
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by psykotic 15y ago
Wow, this is bound to backfire. Naively you'd think that this would be a win-win-win situation for company, employee and referrer alike. But emotional monkey-brain psychology intervenes. Frankly the idea of a friend of mine getting that kin
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by psykotic 15y ago
That's still a client-server model, only one of the clients happens to be the server as well. Quake 1 worked that way, too. The Halo games use a client-server model but support transparent host migration if the original host quits mid-game.
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by psykotic 15y ago
> Finishing projects should not require this and anyone who tells you different is your enemy. I mean that. Enemy? How melodramatic. Finishing complex multi-year retail projects is never easy. Someone will have to fix those nasty, hard
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by psykotic 15y ago
Quake 3 sent the game state update to clients as a delta relative to the last state they had acknowledged receiving: http://trac.bookofhook.com/bookofhook/trac.cgi/wiki/Quake3Ne... On a different end of the spectrum there is Unreal's repl
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by psykotic 15y ago
The limit concept was introduced by Cauchy but lacked a rigorous definition until Weierstrass came along. In the absence of such a definition, Cauchy committed some infamous errors involving nested limits, e.g. he ascribed properties to con
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by psykotic 15y ago
He's making stuff up and stating it authoritatively as if it were simple fact. I'm not sure what else to call it.
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by psykotic 15y ago
> It "officially dies", then in a matter of a year or two, a sequel is whipped up by another studio using the inherited rights to the name. This is not what happened. Please don't spread lies. The single player game is exactly what 3D R
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by psykotic 15y ago
I didn't see the contents of the comment you replied to before it was deleted. But anyway, I just wanted to note that there are plenty of hotel chains that rent out luxury villas in that quality and price range, although maybe not quite tha
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by psykotic 15y ago
> Most startups can't afford to go through the H-1B process, and many candidates just don't meet the criteria (4 years of school or 12 years combined experience). If you're a garage-level startup then $10,000 in legal fees to hire an em
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by psykotic 16y ago
Great summary! I stopped using Darcs a few years ago, but I heard the current generation at least resolved the notorious exponential time slowdowns. Git's speed is definitely a big selling point. More than that, the ecosystem and services l
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by psykotic 16y ago
The short of it is that Joel is wrong. Git and Mercurial use similar data structures and neither of them store changes in the way that Darcs stores changes. Maybe he knows that full well but is telling a white lie to get a teaching point ac
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by psykotic 16y ago
Fair enough, I too readily dismissed your drive-by objection, however non-specific and snide. Scaling real-time anything is never easy. My main point was that cost effectiveness is what keeps GMail from offering a similar level of search qu
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by psykotic 16y ago
Assuming a strong form of encryption with minimal information leakage, avalanching would imply that flipping even a single bit of plaintext in a volume of N bits would force ~N/2 bits of ciphertext to change with a distribution approaching
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by psykotic 16y ago
I interpreted your 'fear' to mean a kind of desperation. My point about lost opportunities was that your average startup founder is not at a loss for options, so desperation is not the driving force of his day to day work. I'm a very compet
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by psykotic 16y ago
This finally pushed me to move Simon Peyton Jones's presentation on How to Give a Good Research Talk from my Google Video account to YouTube. The original recording unfortunately has dodgy audio and video quality but it's still a gem of a t
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by psykotic 16y ago
Ouch. If you're anything like me, around 90% of your traffic comes from mailing lists. Greplin could win big by inferring what mailing lists you are on (along with beginning and ending subscription dates) in order to factor out all relevant
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by psykotic 16y ago
You're not making any sense. They can shard the hell out of their indexes since all searches are user specific, so that's a non-issue. They can afford to throw enough hardware at the problem if their business model works out and they attrac
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by psykotic 16y ago
I have around 45,000 messages in my Gmail inbox. My experience searching it has felt sluggish for a long time. But really the fatal flaw is that search terms have to be damn near exact. Gmail is a joke compared to Google when it comes to fu
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by psykotic 16y ago
It seems pretty promising so far. I guess my next Emacs hacking project will be a Greplin source for anything.el. Has anyone written plug-ins for Spotlight or Quicksilver? For someone like me whose attraction is improved Gmail searching, I
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by psykotic 16y ago
> without fear true motivation and commitment are far from commonplace. This is an alien mindset to me. Fear has never motivated any of my longer term planning or actions. Maybe if I had a family whose life and welfare depended utterly
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by psykotic 16y ago
I have to disagree. The Amiga's design was not the decisive problem. The IBM PC prospers to this day with many traces of its legacy surviving as junk DNA from its haphazard evolutionary path. Had the Amiga survived in some form, no doubt th
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by psykotic 16y ago
Sorry for the belated reply: My first job was at Epic Games working with Unreal Engine 2 which had a codebase of well over a million lines of C++ and UnrealScript. So, I agree with you of the value of learning your way around sprawling lega
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by psykotic 16y ago
I loved the C64 and the Amiga. They were my first and second computer. But it's painfully clear in retrospect that Commodore never stood a chance. Jack Tramiel ran the show like a cigar-puffing industrialist straight out of a Dickens novel.
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by psykotic 16y ago
> plainer (planer?) Planar. Bitplaned graphics was definitely an impediment to efficient rasterization. But when you look at what demo sceners have done with 3D on the Amiga, it's hard to argue that was its main downfall. What killed th
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by psykotic 16y ago
2 years is a good but somewhat arbitrary number. As you say, it depends on what you did in that time. At a smaller company, you can be productive almost instantly, allowing you to make major contributions in two years if you really push you
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by psykotic 16y ago
Here's the one thing about Gmail that drives me nuts: It doesn't let you preview its line wrapping. This is terrible when you're including bits of code in an email. How hard could it be? You could even pull it off half-decently with Greasem

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