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by robbrit 8y ago
Depends. In this case the engine is just a blob of code that you clone, and you modify it in order to make your game. You'd have to comply by the rules of the GPL.
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by robbrit 8y ago
People in their early 20's don't even know Half-Life (released at the end of 1998, over 20 years ago now), let alone Quake. We're definitely getting old!
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by robbrit 8y ago
Seems to me like we've gone too far down the "add more schooling" solution to a changing world. This approach tries to anticipate what will be in demand for the 40-50 years after these kids graduate from high school and enter
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by robbrit 8y ago
Sounds like a good startup idea?
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by robbrit 8y ago
Back in 2007 I thought it was silly that SBCL (and SmallTalk too) distributed its applications as "images". Seems they've been re-invented today as "containers", which are suddenly an amazing idea.
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by robbrit 8y ago
It's proof by assertion. Just repeat the same thing over and over, eventually it will be true. It's a real thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_assertion
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by robbrit 8y ago
Unrelated to the article (since I couldn't get to it), but it's interesting to see that MIT Technology Review does not allow you to browse in Incognito mode.
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A Manifesto for Renewing Liberalism(economist.com)
19 points by robbrit 8y ago|7 comments
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by robbrit 8y ago
Based on my anecdotal experience, it would depend entirely on you: your experience, your reputation, and your negotiating ability. If you're a top senior engineer or a celebrity like Tim Bray ( https://www.tbray.org/ongo
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by robbrit 8y ago
Agreed. I moved from Montreal to SF a few years back and although my rent tripled, so did my income. The net result is much more savings than I would have gotten if I had stayed in Canada. If you're a saver/investor then it makes
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by robbrit 8y ago
You lost me at "commute via car". Toronto has a reputation for some of the worst traffic in North America. It might be cheaper to live that far away, but the cost in quality of life + hours commuting isn't worth the trade. In
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by robbrit 8y ago
Google is actually C++ centric - every other language is a bit of a "second class citizen" when interacting with infrastructure. Go is still new and Google is "old", so there is surprisingly little Go code at Google - it
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by robbrit 8y ago
You're right, it is dependent on your perspective. Go is intended to be unsurprising to developers who want to just be able to look at code and have a good idea of what it does. Punctuation is very useful to get rid of ambiguity. Contr
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by robbrit 8y ago
Consensus approaches are terrible ways to design languages. It's why Java took so long to evolve, where C# rapidly adapted to changing needs; and why C++ lingered in a long state of crappiness until Stroustroup came back and is now pus
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by robbrit 8y ago
Seems like this thread is a few steps away from outrage about outrage :)
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by robbrit 8y ago
This is not really a good idea, especially if they are getting enough protein in their diets already (about 0.8g per kg of bodyweight) which most people have no problem getting. Eating too much protein-rich food increases the risk of excess
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by robbrit 8y ago
This is a software problem, not a Rails or even a Ruby problem. I've seen Java/C++/C# systems collapse under their own weight just as often as Ruby/Python/PHP because they don't invest the time in cleaning up t
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by robbrit 8y ago
Hmmm, I wonder what the long-term effects of this will be if the tariffs stay in place for a while. 25% is a huge bump. I can see two major effects: 1) Lots of the "last screw" manufacturing will move to other countries and then i
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by robbrit 8y ago
It's a cheap method for branding. No designer needed :)
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by robbrit 8y ago
> I think that ultimately puts a damper on peoples' productive and creative ability as they tend to then focus more on keeping their job rather than being the most productive they can be for their employer. You could also look at it
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by robbrit 9y ago
> I don't have whatever regional equivalent there is there I imagine you would install it if Uber is not very common in that market; waiting for an Uber to come might take much longer than for you to install that regional equivalent
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by robbrit 9y ago
I'm surprised that they don't go too much into good practice and style; these are heavily enforced in Google's code-bases. I would expect to see things like references and smart pointers, raw pointers are typically avoided as
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by robbrit 9y ago
Were you going from junior (L3) to intermediate (L4)? If you were, then the task you described seems appropriate - you don't have to do much to go from L3 to L4. The author of the blog post was going for senior (L5), which you can&#x27
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by robbrit 9y ago
I have a feeling Diaspora isn't going anywhere anytime soon until they clean up their UX. Here's the initial experience: 1) Go to the site, click Join Us. 2) Get shuttled down the page to a wall of text. Click Sign Up since I don&
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by robbrit 9y ago
Now I know where Emperor Norton's Boozeland gets its name. Thanks! Reference: https://www.yelp.com/biz/emperor-nortons-boozeland-san-franc...
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by robbrit 9y ago
This brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "penetration testing".
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by robbrit 9y ago
Sometimes I miss Slashdot's tags. whatcouldpossiblygowrong
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by robbrit 9y ago
In many cases, we have to first acknowledge that the problem exists before we attempt to apply some of these solutions. I've noticed myself seeing solutions to problems that I didn't know I had, only to brush off the solution as t
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by robbrit 9y ago
For someone who is young, can move around, and doesn't burn loads of money on silly expenses, the Bay Area is actually amazing for the bank account. My experience here has been that the gap between income and expenses is greater than g
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by robbrit 9y ago
Exactly. That is what I am doing after 3 years in the Bay Area.

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