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by sago 12y ago
People with CS degrees can still harbour misconceptions about programming or computers. That doesn't mean there is no way to understand computer science, nor no reason to try. In fact, in an ideal world, evolution wouldn't be an i
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by sago 12y ago
> Genetic variation doesn't always come from random mutation. The article didn't imply it did. It says mutation generates genetic variation, not that all genetic variation is generated by mutation. A -> B does not imply B -&
903.
by sago 12y ago
Yup. The first person that came to mind for me was Terry Cavanagh. Also a one-man phenomenon.
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by sago 12y ago
> I think that's because most people aren't comfortable making the art or music for their own games. Right, them's the 'production values'. They aren't comfortable because the quality bar is pretty high, eve
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by sago 12y ago
> There are no "minimum production values" if your game is good enough. Which is just a tautology. Hotline Miami - 2 core devs + 2 others; Risk of Rain - 2 core devs + others; Gunpoint - 1 dev (Tom Francis FTW, yay!) Valdis Sto
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by sago 12y ago
Yes. They are not 'almost universally completely different'. There are elements in Minecraft (which didn't originate those elements) which are not in them, certainly. Minecraft brought a bunch of cool things together, I agree
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by sago 12y ago
One person dev will rise every time there is a new viable games platform. Because such platforms will initially have low market penetration, small customer bases, and be high risk for larger developers. But as soon as those platforms are es
908.
by sago 12y ago
Except that the myth of the one-idea-making-a-fortune is mostly that. A myth. Minecraft, as incredible as it was, wasn't the only game of its kind. People routinely underestimate the role of luck in these things. There is room for the
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by sago 12y ago
LD relationships, at this point, are not much different to F2F relationships, in my experience. If anything, the use of asynch comms (meeting via PMs, for example), means that conversations get to intimate details faster, because people inv
910.
by sago 12y ago
why would anyone need to know your secret? Except that it would give them more characters in the substitution cypher. The card assumes a user will keep the same secret for each site, so just keep the start of the PW the same.
911.
by sago 12y ago
You also have to totally trust the company making the cards. Who'll also know your email address and name. Maybe this particular company is legit, but seems like an obvious scam to set up something like this and have your victims basic
912.
by sago 12y ago
That would completely defeat the object. The point of this exercise is not the transfer of information, but the practice of intimacy.
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by sago 12y ago
You cannot satirise illiteracy or ignorance online without people assuming you are actually illiterate or ignorant.
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by sago 12y ago
Worth having some equivalent questions of your own. "Good question, while I think about that, can I give you an interesting brain-teaser from my last interview?" Figuring out if the tech lead who'll manage you is a jerk is a
915.
by sago 12y ago
Yeah it's a jerk move. Think what would have happened if he hadn't added the alloc. The team would have been in the same situation, would have busted their guts, got it down under budget and slapped themselves on the back. They mi
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by sago 12y ago
> They have a strong first-mover advantage,” – that’s Silicon Valley speak for planting your flag first Glad that we have articles like this to explain that obscure Silicon Valley jargon to us.
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by sago 12y ago
When title case confounds, and commas confuse. Took me a while to decypher: Monster sues Beats Electronics founders for fraud.
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by sago 12y ago
> There’s a particular sinking feeling that comes when the candidate starts on one of these problems and immediately writes a for loop. > in most embedded/real-time/kernel work, ... When there are strict bounds on stack size
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by sago 12y ago
Why on earth would you use an untyped generic hashmap for employee record data? What kind of language do you think forces you into that kind of architectural decision? Certainly no language I have or would develop an MIS in, regardless of p
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by sago 12y ago
> having all procedures that operate on and change the state of an object in the same file is super helpful. How many OOP programs do you know that have achieved this? None that I know. Perhaps utility libraries can get close, but no sof
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by sago 12y ago
"You'll notice that the 'Fortune 500 most valued skills' doesn't include "independent thinking" in the list of top topics." Are you suggesting CCSS does a worse job of fostering independent thinking t
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by sago 12y ago
This is always going to be a problem with dynamic linking. It happens with dynamic linked libraries. In order to use some function, you have to bundle and depend on a whole library. That library may have functionality you don't need, w
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by sago 12y ago
This. I thought that all the way through too. Why is it not reprehensible to be advocating a policy that sucks the talent out of the rest of the world for the glory of Uncle Sam? There are exceptionally talented people all over the world, V
924.
by sago 12y ago
/Snark Thanks, tried it again and the images loaded. Must have been the alt-tags I was seeing. Much obliged.
925.
by sago 12y ago
Should we read this page as suggesting a prerequisite to learning category theory is being able to interpret LaTeX math mode on the fly? Or did a bit of javascript magic not load for me?
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by sago 12y ago
I don't recognize the problem from this article (programming for 20 years, including 10 doing R&D as a consultant). Firstly I don't spend most of my time debugging. I do spend a fair amount of time programming in a way that ma