psykotic

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by psykotic 16y ago
Gorgeous design! If I'm allowed a nitpick, the two buttons on the About page are nearly but not exactly aligned vertically, probably as an oversight.
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> At what margin? There's more revenue in gaming than engine licensing, but once you have the engine, I can't imagine it costing much to license it. When you license UE3, you receive technical support from the programmers who implemente
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> As for companies that are engineering oriented from top to bottom, I did get hired by Google. You don't get much more engineering oriented than that! Do you think your more business-oriented format helped or hurt? What business people
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> Today these machines can send millions of emails, portscan servers or participate in DDOS attacks and the user has very little if any noticeable performance hit. Unless the downstream vs upstream economics of the Internet backbone bec
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by psykotic 16y ago
Well, $350k is UE2's price but that's an outdated engine. A license for the current generation engine, UE3, will cost you around $1MM for a flat deal, less with back-end royalties. Epic makes significantly more from their games than from th
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by psykotic 16y ago
> Note that since switching to that resume format, I've been offered substantially better jobs. (And I've landed another good one.) Congratulations! The format's appeal to business-minded folks with no technical background is clear. Eve
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> Opera, Safari, Chrome and Firefox all run on a variety of OSs, which is exactly what a web browser should do. What do you mean? The web itself should be accessible on a variety of platforms. It doesn't matter in the least if every pla
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And a nitpick is that the front page has the third column not matching the other columns in height.
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Just before you replied I added an extra paragraph with some background that explains where he's coming from. If the standard critique of empiricism I mention there is not familiar to you, you might want to study more before passing judgeme
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> Way to go, Chomsky. Insightful as a twelve year old. What an immature response. You're the one acting like a twelve year-old here. Unless you've read a good portion of his writings on language and cognition published through the last
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Yes, an important point is that everyone learns differently. Aimless computation is the furthest thing from my mind, and I agree that most people wouldn't notice these patterns if left to their own devices. Computation as an accessory to co
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> In Japan that's the default. Wife takes care of the budget and gives a monthly "allowance" to the husband. That sounds familiar. When I worked in Seoul at a Korean company, the smaller unscheduled bonuses were rewarded in cash. That w
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> Deleting Star Wars articles won't make the contributors suddenly interested in writing articles about Africa instead. If anything, the opposite happens. Contributors first come for special interests. Once welcomed into the community,
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by psykotic 16y ago
By the time an ambitious student finishes high school, they will have learned some manipulations in linear algebra and calculus by rote but they won't have any real understanding. If they enter college and study some further mathematics, th
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Depends on the payment structure. The company I work for pays everyone the same (very high) base salary. Each programmer works on their own product and earns royalties off the top of it. Then there are variable bonuses based on the company'
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by psykotic 16y ago
Here is my honest first impression. I'm not trying to be complete or imply that these are my only issues. It's just a sampling of thoughts I had. The typeface with its wispy horizontal strokes is murder to my eyes. It's an extremely poor ch
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Maybe we're talking past each other. Could you explain your goals with this curriculum? Are you trying to reduce the teaching of mathematics to a bare minimum so people can get on with what you see as more essential subjects? My stance is t
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> If you were going to major in math, then you may need to go back and learn all the basic calculations in order to build on them. The way it actually happens is that once you start majoring in mathematics, you will rarely see any compu
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That too much emphasis is put on manual computation is obvious. But taking the opposite tack is an overcorrection. Computing and solving by hand is a font of endless insight in mathematics at any level and should not be left to computers. T
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I am a programmer in the game industry. Games I have worked on have sold millions of copies. That said, I've pirated plenty of things when the convenience made up for the dubious morality of it. I'm not proud of it or justifying it but that
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> There's people who are going to buy, no matter what Most of those people do it out of convenience. They want to play on their console, in the living room with the big screen, and they don't want to fuck around with torrenting ISOs and
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> You can see 70% discounts on most boutique clothes and accessories shops and everybody knew that its not real but consumers still love even the illusion of discount and jump on them. It's straight-up illegal in every country where con
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Oh, it wasn't a complaint so much as an expression of genuine surprise that these wonderful books aren't more widely known.
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What a conspicuous absence of Russian books! To mention only a tiny handful: - Mathematics: Its Contents, Methods and Meaning by Kolmogorov, Alexandrov, et al - Shafarevich's Basic Notions of Algebra - Arnold's Mathematical Methods of Class
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> One thing I remember reading that really stuck with me - most people externalize failure and internalize success. I'm not sure of your definition of "most people" but how do you square this with the impostor syndrome that is reported
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This analysis assumes that your manager is not in a position to appreciate your work's value. The solution to that problem is to work for someone who does appreciate your work. That simple change will increase the quality of your work life;
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> In other words, China has much the same problems as the West and much the same successes. One has to be careful comparing these things on a linear scale. But yes, I agree. Beyond the context of our immediate discussion, the equality o
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> Having ruled out the past since both West and China infringe gratuitously, what do we really _know_ about gender equality in China in the present day? A third of China's millionaires are female. We know concrete facts like that. Guanx
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> Foot binding? One unequivocally positive outcome of the communists winning over the nationalists that even an ardent anti-communist like Jung Chang will attest to was their gender equality reforms. The first and most symbolic act was
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Of course. Why is that remark relevant here? Mathematica does make its S-expressions available to the user at runtime. They are in fact much more available to the user at runtime than in Lisp because of Mathematica's term rewriting semantic

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