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by rizzin 8y ago
I work as a game programmer. I'm one of those kids who grew up playing now "classic" games wanting to become a game developer themselves. Every time I'm in a corporate game development gig I have regrets, because instead
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by rizzin 8y ago
You can't transfer games between accounts on Steam
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by rizzin 8y ago
In the context of Russia, the company that made Telegram is headed by Pavel Durov, creator of the main Russian social network, vk.com. Don't know the exact history, but ultimately the social network ownership was transferred to a large
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by rizzin 8y ago
However constantly switching contexts between different tasks is also very taxing...
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by rizzin 9y ago
There are a lot of bomb shelters at least in Seoul.
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by rizzin 10y ago
>Just do your work if you want the results. Quote from the article: "As I tell people, to tell the chronic procrastinator to just do it would be like saying to a clinically depressed person, cheer up."
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by rizzin 10y ago
>But the most effective thing that I've found is getting some piece of the work done. Can confirm from personal experience. If you manage to make yourself start working and get at least something done, it is a huge incentive to cont
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by rizzin 11y ago
DDG team can be really slow with feedback. Last year I submitted fixes for several bang searches, and I received an answer from them about three months later.
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by rizzin 11y ago
I'm with you here. After working at a startup for 1.5 years I became a solid full stack developer with the ability to very quickly adapt to the current task. There's a point about going "wide" instead of "deep"
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by rizzin 11y ago
Thanks, that is actually a solid idea. Or you could have a VM exclusively for working / for personal stuff.
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by rizzin 11y ago
And what can be done if there's no easy way to separate "work" and "home" environments? Pretty soon (in less than a month) I'm going to have the following working conditions: I'm gonna have a room to mysel
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by rizzin 11y ago
That's what I thought immediately while reading the article. Frequent reading on a smartphone must be really horrible for the long-term eye health. Especially on smartphone, not a tablet. And as far as I know that is actually the reaso
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by rizzin 11y ago
Some games have mechanisms to manipulate their RNG and it is even used in some TASes. During this year's SGDQ's TAS block they had a TAS of a Sonic game that used exactly this technique: the bot waited at the title screen the exac
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by rizzin 11y ago
Yeah, but in other (more high-level) languages you simply wouldn't compare strings byte by byte.
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by rizzin 11y ago
I didn't understand your answer even after rereading about tree operations but I think I found out the actual reason why the root can have less than d children: it is because of rebalancing after deletion. Underflows can go all the way
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by rizzin 11y ago
Why does the root have only two children and not d, like every other non-leaf node?