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by putzdown 12y ago
"I think most of us, including my math-phobic Facebook friends, would find the second version easier to follow and understand." I guess I'm in the minority. I preferred the words (though the translation was a bit ungainly).
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by putzdown 12y ago
It's horrifying to me that such a beautiful piece of real-time rendering should be marred by herky-jerky camera movement. Please, people: life is too short to use gamepads to control first person games when you don't have to (i.e.
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by putzdown 12y ago
Articles like this sadden me deeply. There are too many Java programmers who are misinformed about the merits of their language and the supposed weaknesses of other languages—especially C++. I've worked extensively with Java and C++ fo
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Programmers are trees(jeffwofford.com)
1 points by putzdown 12y ago|0 comments
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by putzdown 12y ago
Live and let live, people. [Programmers are trees.]( http://www.jeffwofford.com/?p=915 )
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by putzdown 12y ago
Or possibly anti-eugenics, right? "Smart people are getting together to breed more smart people, and that's unfair, so let's bolster the smart people who became that way...uh, magically... (and maybe put down the smart dynast
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by putzdown 12y ago
It uses "brains" and "intellectual capital," which I think can be comfortably glossed as "intelligence."
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by putzdown 12y ago
I find this article rather bizarre. The opening paragraph sounds a note that the rest of the article fails to pick up. It seems to me newsworthy that so many of the presumed candidates for 2016 are attached to past presidents, and "ari
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by putzdown 12y ago
It's an interesting article, but its use of "tool" is spurious. It appears in the title and is plunked down in front of us on the last line, but nowhere is the case made that dogs' greater social acceptance of humans amo
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by putzdown 12y ago
Stuhlinger's letter expresses a basic optimism toward science that was characteristic of the modern era in general and the middle of the 20th century in particular, and which has tarnished a great deal since then. Their faith held that
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by putzdown 12y ago
If the EFF thinks developers are unwise to agree to this contract, they should carefully, logically, and constantly explain to developers why that is. They should persuade developers. They should not treat the contract as if it were or shou
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by putzdown 12y ago
Does anyone know how the support for C++11 is looking in this version? It would be pretty great if Microsoft could finally close [the gap]( http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2014/06/11/c-11-
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by putzdown 12y ago
Well but the key word there is "somebody." If there was a single, all-encompassing, global world government that forced all fishermen to do this, then yes, we'd have a problem. If the United States (for example) caused its fi
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by putzdown 12y ago
Yes but which Doctor Who championed hand-washing and briefly saved lives?
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by putzdown 12y ago
This is illogical and amateurish. The title of the petition claims that Apple (1) tramples free speech and (2) innovation. Yet the detailed verbiage of the complaint gives no evidence that they trample free speech, and if their contract te
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by putzdown 12y ago
I see what you're getting at. We open an old test that emphasizes the ability to absorb the wisdom and learning of the past (among its other properties). Then we read a Hacker News comment thread that dismisses the test in various trie
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by putzdown 12y ago
Curious: a couple of the images of "blind" eyes show eyes with no pupils. Forgive my ignorance, but is this common among blind people, or is it a Photoshopism? If a Photoshopism, then is it wise for a website offering services for
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The Rise and Fall of the Lone Game Developer(jeffwofford.com)
471 points by putzdown 12y ago|176 comments
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The rise and fall of the lone game developer(jeffwofford.com)
5 points by putzdown 12y ago|0 comments
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by putzdown 12y ago
I worked on Crush the Castle for Armor Games in the late 2000s. Angry Birds took the same game concept, added much cuter characters and art, and blew us out of the water with it. (No offense: we took it from someone else.) Now I feel kinda
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by putzdown 12y ago
The title is wrong. It can be felt, not seen. Note their mention of "invisible."
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by putzdown 12y ago
He's not necessarily asking for you to burn time digging. Maybe you just know somebody, you know?
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by putzdown 12y ago
Obtuse is not a verb. You want "object".
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by putzdown 12y ago
About $115K/annum working remotely—probably about the same as if not. As @stephencanon said, an employer that suspected there was a downside in productivity for remote workers (and I'd say it's at least equally likely that wo
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by putzdown 12y ago
So here's my theory. Whenever we have the experience of a field of useful knowledge being "bullshittery," it's because we ourselves learned it in an ad-hoc and unsystematic way. There's no question that the C langua
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by putzdown 12y ago
False premise: "Unintentional failure is not a failure." Lack of intention for a failure certainly weakens the ethical culpability of the action, but it doesn't weaken the technical or pragmatic severity of the failure. Wha
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by putzdown 12y ago
Abstraction is the napkin with which pundits wipe their sloppy chins. I don't know whether Scotland should secede from the UK or not, but I do know that this article doesn't hold enough substance to contribute to the question. The
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by putzdown 12y ago
These kinds of rants sadden me. They purport to outline absolute, logically inviolable reasons that a given language is "bad". What they really do is express the writer's frustration, an emotional reaction that probably emerg
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by putzdown 12y ago
Fair point. Except that for most of the history of the telephone, scams of this kind were prosecuted with immediacy and violence. Somehow they've become just another thing we have to tolerate—but we never tolerated them before. What ch
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Why are scam phone callers allowed to continue?
3 points by putzdown 12y ago|3 comments

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