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   by qwph 19y ago

   I did it without preperation too, and got 51. I would have liked to have got 59 (ie half of them). I think my most glaring omission was 'calcium'. Funny how you miss really obvious things when you're against the clock...
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   by qwph 19y ago

   I can vouch for that too, and I think it'll probably be another 4 or 5 years before any other language starts to make significant inroads into game code. I've worked with people in games who simply don't know any other languages. (You can b
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   by qwph 19y ago

   I would argue that any developer should spend a couple of years maintaining a small to medium-sized application written in C. It's like eating bran: not a particularly huge amount of fun, but good for you in the long run. But maybe that's j
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   by qwph 19y ago

   Homeopathy is based on the idea of taking a solution of some chemical, then diluting it so much that no molecules of the original solution can remain. The BBC did a documentary on it a few years back, and they found that lo and behold, unde
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   by qwph 19y ago

   vim's capabilities for search and replace on regular expressions make it awesome for refactoring. trying to lay your code out as regularly as possible makes regex refactoring easier, and gives you a nice, consistent codebase as a bonus.
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   by qwph 19y ago

   Haskell beats C on memory usage too, interestingly enough. Poor old Ruby though, let's make it win: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?t...