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by putzdown 11y ago
Interface relationships are a subset of inheritance relationships. If you understand inheritance you understand interfaces. So it makes sense to explain inheritance before understanding interfaces. There's an analogy here between inher
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by putzdown 11y ago
Many, many programmers don't really understand inheritance, and that fact is terrible. Many who don't understand inheritance think they do, and therefore believe that their bad designs are characteristic of all designs, and that m
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by putzdown 11y ago
Arguments (or stories implying arguments) of the form "There exist bad X, therefore X is bad," are never terribly compelling. Yes there is such a thing as bad object oriented design, just as there is such a thing as bad functional
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by putzdown 11y ago
No, all the UML you need to know is this: (1) draw and label a box for each class; (2) draw an arrow from one class to another to show dependency; (3) draw a different kind of arrow from one class to another to show inheritance; (4) [bonus
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by putzdown 11y ago
Congratulations on preserving a horselike fossil from 48M years ago while pregnant. It's difficult enough to preserve a horselike fossil from 48M years ago without the encumbrance of pregnancy. Doing so while pregnant takes grit.
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Ask HN: Whatever happened to the C++ Grandmaster Certification course?
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Your Very Own Polaris Nuclear Submarine for $7(retroland.com)
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by putzdown 11y ago
This is a well-expressed defense of declarative concepts but the title itself highlights the Achille's heel of these ideas: how, after all, do you simply make the computer do something, like print "Hello, World" at a particul
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The PICO-8 Fantasy Console(lexaloffle.com)
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I'm too bad of a typist to use this. Intending to search for xcworkspace I typed wcworkspace. Google gracefully corrects me. Hulbee stares at the blank wall of no results. I want to like it, but if you want to replace my entrenched too
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Weaving technology into the fabric of everyday life(medium.com)
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by putzdown 11y ago
Okay, you choose 3. Ultima Online had begun as a small band of junior developers within Origin back in like 1995. The original concept was to build a massively multiplayer game using a variant of the Ultima 6 engine. That was a pretty far t
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by putzdown 11y ago
1997
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by putzdown 11y ago
Hm, there's a lot to it. Maybe the best way to do this is a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style of answer. Do you want to know about... 1) the incredible complexity of MMO development and why nobody wants to make an MMO (though everybody t
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by putzdown 11y ago
As someone has said, the quality of your resume in the game industry (or film industry, I'm told) is only as good as the last game you worked on. Ultima Online was an attention getter for employers for many years; to a certain extent
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by putzdown 11y ago
I was there on the UO team. Fun fact: this server closet also gained an optical scanner as its security system, due I think to the generosity/love-for-toys of Richard Garriott. The optical scanner didn't work very well, and was wa
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by putzdown 11y ago
I paid for it because it's valuable and deserves payment. I get paid for doing work in which I use it. I want its maker to continue to thrive and sustain it (a wish, I admit, that has not panned out as expected; development on Sublime
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by putzdown 11y ago
The argument would be more compelling from a more compelling writer. The second sentence, "It’s one of the pieces of advice that I have always completely disregarded, as being obviously wrong..." contains a comma that hasn't
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by putzdown 11y ago
Oh, brother. The level of naivety behind these kinds of ambitions and speculations would seem impossible if it weren't so commonplace. There's a strange assumption afoot that technology—in this case, AI programming—can go anywhere
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by putzdown 11y ago
It's true that C/C++ will never die. Not everyone loves them, but they're both good languages and they both have their place. Part of that place is due to mere tradition, mere established-ness, but part of it is real merit in
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by putzdown 11y ago
You know, there are some problems that are simply unsolvable. Star Trek-style teleportation, I'm inclined to think, will never happen. I think "true" AI of the sort described in this article is, likewise a pipe dream. Not in
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by putzdown 11y ago
Your twenties are the age of proving yourself. But this is a self-defeating goal: a person worthy of the respect and success you yearn for doesn't need them as badly as you do. Your thirties expand and narrow your world: expansion into
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by putzdown 11y ago
My 16-year old son started driving a few months ago. I can identify with the gosling's parents.
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by putzdown 12y ago
"Managers should, on the whole, charge more than the value they add." But wouldn't that, trivially, make every managed fund always and inevitably less desirable than every unmanaged fund (assuming they aren't for other r
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by putzdown 12y ago
If I agreed that edible insects were a novelty today I might be persuaded that they'll be mainstream tomorrow. Since I believe that edible insects are a source of revulsion to most Westerners (at least) today, I'm doubtful that th
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by putzdown 12y ago
It's nice to know that people who fixate on making money not by building useful or beautiful things but by gaming the system are having a hard time too. I've seen enough obnoxious Acai Berry spam to know there must be money there.
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by putzdown 12y ago
A pet peeve: The author sets his story "many years ago at Zynga." "Many years ago" speaks to me of long years past; like, decades—surely at least a decade. But Zynga was founded relatively recently, in 2007. Why do peopl
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by putzdown 12y ago
It's a mistake to judge the actions of the past by the perceptions of the present. Should we bomb civilians? No. Was the bombing of civilians a commonplace and accepted strategy in WWII? Yes. So who is right--our present judgment of ho
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by putzdown 12y ago
I confess I've never paid much attention to GPL, and when I think about this I find one particular reason. I don't understand the harm. What bad thing happens when the GPL is not obeyed? I think I understand that the answer is tha
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Survey Shows Scientists and Public at Odds Over Climate, GMOs and More(nbcnews.com)
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