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The bottleneck is content, especially RPGs require a lot: Art, models, sounds, music, dialogs, story, gui, level design, etc. And everything in a consistent style otherwise it looks too cheap. Multiplayer games require little content relati
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Maybe they can be reduced to a news company? Remove the tool “terminal” essentially.
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A hybrid approach would be monomorphization for native types like int and pointers for records. C# is doing that if I remember correctly.
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Creating wealth requires peace and stability. Capturing wealth requires war and violence. The fastest way is to do both. The most ethical way is to do the first while appearing strong and aggressive enough to deter others from attacking you
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In my opinion even hosting a server in Europe is not sufficient thanks to the PATRIOT act and GDPR. However it seems to me that this is the current generally acknowledged practice until it is sorted out by governments and courts.
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They worked for years towards becoming a EU member. Putin wants to turn them back into a puppet state for "his sovjet union".
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FTSE All-World index was 28,21%. Slightly beating the market then.
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Do you have a citation for the „scientifically proven“?
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You are right. I was wrong. You win this debate.
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I have a link in my TiddlyWiki to show me a random note. I try to do something in my "Zettelkasten" every day but on some days I just don't know what to write. This is where I review random notes and try to find new connectio
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There are no humans with three or more arms. Most humans have two arms. A few humans have one or zero arms. Thus, the mean/average number of arms should be between 1.9 and 2.0 but surely less then two. (The median number of arms is two
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Scout Mindset by Julia Galef. It is a light read so I recommend it widely. It is about the general topic of making good decisions and having correct opinions which is helpful to all of us. Caveat: I expect many HN readers to be familiar wit
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I call it "theorem-proof" style: https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/theorem_proof_slides.html Sounds more serious than "meme pics" style. :)
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Spent a few minutes searching. Didn't find complaints but there are publications around this topic: > When conducting a systematic literature review, researchers usually determine the relevance of primary studies on the basis of the
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Are you talking about the academia where everybody complains that people only read the abstracts?
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What does „actively online“ mean in a world where messages arrive as notifications on smartphones?
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xkcd provides the narration: https://xkcd.com/2544/
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Mercedes-Benz won regulatory approval for level 3 driving in Germany(bloomberg.com)
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> "'Nu' is too easily confounded with 'new,' and 'Xi' was not used because it is a common last name," the WHO said, adding that the agency's "best practices for naming disease suggest avo
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A colleague of mine ran out of greek letters in his thesis. He added hebrew letters. (pdf: http://www.andreas-lochbihler.de/pub/lochbihler06diplomarbei... look at the index at the end)
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Crash Cows: http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/crash_cows.html
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This one maybe: http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/high_tide.html
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That is essentially what a Burndown Chart does in visual way, isn’t it? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_down_chart
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It’s not just errors. There is the effect of bounded rationality: The organization is too complex to consider everything, so intelligent people make decisions which have unintended bad effects.
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You describe the symptoms. The article goes deeper.
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> The more standardized the environment for a software developer is, the more under-engineered their code will be. Ok, so there is a tradeoff. It does not mean that the Enterprise approach is wrong in general. Maybe that standardization
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Reddit to the rescue: r/rational Their wiki also suggests lots of other books and authors. https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/wiki/
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Second McConnell. It is a great reference for all kinds of estimations around software development. That is also its downside. It is a reference. Not a textbook to learn things in a pedagogical structure.
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It is Cmake with Python syntax.
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Greg Wilson is more positive. Though he does agree that nobody cares. https://third-bit.com/2021/07/17/software-engineerings-great...

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