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by reificator 5y ago
> This sort of begs the question: where does classical OOP, the one taught to all undergrad CS majors in programs that use Java or C++, really fit in nowadays? I have no idea. The smalltalk ideal of OOP lives on in all sorts of ways,
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by reificator 5y ago
> This is why simulations like say someone making a game or simcity with like relatively independent entities that map to something in real life use OOP. I don't think this is the case, or at least it hasn't been for quite aw
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by reificator 5y ago
> Essentially Wordle is just Hangman with a neat twist. I'd say the closer comparison is to Mastermind[0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_(board_game)
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by reificator 5y ago
> I don't understand why this view is so prevalent. Fearmongering from those actually affected by these common sense regulations.
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by reificator 5y ago
They didn't say it was identical, they said it was a much better combo.
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by reificator 5y ago
Go to the gear in the top right, and enable `Hard Mode - Any revealed hints must be used in subsequent guesses`.
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by reificator 5y ago
It's distributed as a patch file, and also he founded and currently serves as director of the company that originally developed the game. I think he'll be fine.
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by reificator 5y ago
> In interviews I have people program a function to rearrange characters in a string, appropriately named "SimpleProblem", and >50% of candidates with experience can't write a function that compiles and solves the prob
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by reificator 5y ago
At the time of the comment it was triple, not double.
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by reificator 5y ago
> It's a little bit ridiculous to complain about low wages for a job in a thread about an employer tripling wages to ensure that the job in question is staffed. It's a little bit ridiculous that their pay is so low that incre
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by reificator 5y ago
I think what they’re trying to say is something like “If you want to act in protest against bloat and planned obsolescence you can use a Linux desktop other than Ubuntu”
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I have two periods in my life. Before password manager and after password manager. After I made the password manager a part of my routine that I trust absolutely that I never skip, all of that anxiety went away. I still have logins from t
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by reificator 5y ago
What search engine prioritizes links in comments or code blocks as any sort of signal? I have no particular attachment to SO, especially after the way they handled their public drama recently. That said I put a link to SO any time I have to
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by reificator 5y ago
Stack Overflow predates any of those being open source.
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by reificator 5y ago
> > A great product sells itself. > This is just not true. Minecraft is the best selling game of all time[0] and while it's been marketed more since Microsoft purchased it, the first million sales happened within 7 months
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by reificator 5y ago
I've made meaningful progress on things I'm learning by listening to podcasts at 3x speed + "Smart Speed". Could I have made more progress by listening slower? Maybe, though that's debatable. Would I have even st
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by reificator 5y ago
That actually makes a lot of sense, I've only ever played NTSC Sonic. In that case it probably sounds great at the right speed. Thanks for the insight! EDIT: In fact watching the video at 1.25x makes the music sound substantially bett
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by reificator 5y ago
I didn't know the C64 had blast processing! The levels and characters look great, the gameplay pieces are mostly there, and the music at least sounds authentic, if not exactly pleasant. Something was definitely lost in translation the
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by reificator 5y ago
Having not read them I would be shocked if they differed dramatically from the points Gabe Newell makes about those same stores. At the end of the day both companies are trying to avoid getting squeezed out by a platform-pack-in monopoly.
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by reificator 5y ago
Do you want to explain where "paying for games that you get to keep" entered this conversation? The logic the GP was using was that exclusivity deals and "the first hit is free" tactics are not ultimately in the customer
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by reificator 5y ago
I was also in this boat, but vscode has been reliable for me. Maybe I’m not clicking the wrong options, but I used the gut cli exclusively for years so maybe my mental model is in the right place to avoid that.
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by reificator 5y ago
> Does any GUI offer `-p` in `git commit` and `git stash`? I literally use it 10s times per day, can't live without it once I started using it. VSCode’s GUI handles most of what I use -p for, though if I need to use `s` inside -p
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I started down this path years ago because bookmarks and sites I know used to exist started vanishing faster than I could catch up with my to-read folder. Link rot is real and sites/information I used to be able to find on google in se
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by reificator 5y ago
Even on a joke site I can't stand fade-in on scroll. If you're using scroll events for anything other than loading and unloading content outside the current viewport you're doing it wrong. Please stop.
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by reificator 5y ago
Not if your validation is `/</xml>$/`.
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My advice to anyone naming things and trying to evangelize them is to try to find any way the name could be made fun of, any alternate meanings that could be applied, and so on. And do that for the acronym as well. The article here calls i
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by reificator 5y ago
> I really hope that all of these efforts end up failing miserably. Their only purpose is to encourage customers to buy from these companies. Or to enable customers to migrate away bit-by-bit because cold turkey is hard . I personally
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Losing the singular most expensive item you own, that typically contains the rest of your property, with no warning… that tends to end with you on the street which some may feel worse than prison. I’m not condoning that choice but recognize
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by reificator 5y ago
This seems easy to solve given Apple's rejection of PWA support in Safari, just add a feature that doesn't matter much, like an (opt-in!) notification on updates. Safari (and therefore all browsers) on iOS don't support no
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by reificator 5y ago
Minecraft data is stored in a mix of JSON and a well documented/understood custom format. It's even documented in the same wiki that players use to learn how to play: https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Anvil_f

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