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by samiv 2y ago
I think the thing that applies here is the story about the potters making one perfect pot vs. 1000 imperfect ones. In the end the ones who were going for volume were the ones who were making the more beautiful ones too. The best way to lear
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by samiv 2y ago
And whatever users are willing to pay for not seeing ads someone is willing to pay more for users to see ads. Of course the best would be to let users pay for not seeing ads and then shove them in their face anyway for maximum profit.
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by samiv 2y ago
I applaud the effort but seriously though I just wonder... For reference, Chromimum (and therefore Chrome) is a monster of a project and has at this point probably over 10 million lines of code and has taken +20 years to develop with thousa
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by samiv 2y ago
Ah, web dev, always a pleasure.
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by samiv 2y ago
Hi, cool and congrats on making a game! I also have a breakout clone in the works but with the twist that I'm doing my own complete 2D game engine for the game. - The particle effects when the block is broken is a bit disturbing and di
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by samiv 2y ago
Instead of "Clean Code" I'd really suggest people read either - Code Complete - The Pragmatic Programmer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Complete https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by samiv 2y ago
You made a great example here and I absolutely agree with you. In fact I find this type of accidental / unneeded coupling is the number one cause of problems, bugs and limitations of re-use and thus development velocity in any software
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by samiv 2y ago
What terrible advice. Your public variables are so much easier to refactor if/when your data changes when you have simple accessors methods around them. Having accessors for data have saved my ass multiple times when I've had to d
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by samiv 2y ago
Make sure that: - your framebuffer is hardware accelerated - your systemd doesn't have any timeouts or service hangups - run a lightweight environment such as fluxbox And you should really be fine still.
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by samiv 2y ago
self grandstanding is what it is.
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by samiv 2y ago
"The problem with Rust in the kernel is that the kernel has historically eschewed strong internal abstractions. The Linux kernel has no principled abstract architecture in the same way that Windows NT does; it has evolved very organica
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by samiv 2y ago
Based on my 25 yoe in the industry the article is extremely cynical but unfortunately very much spot on. Today in the corporate world the MBAs are running the show and they need continuous, growth and engagement. All needs of the developer
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by samiv 2y ago
We lost the plot when the MBA ass clowns took over and started adding "engagement" and other features that only serve the interest of the developer not the user . The typical corporate software is now primarily serving the need
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by samiv 2y ago
This is absolutely fine. But people who post on Reddit or gamedev.net or any other forum ultimately are also looking for external validation. If they weren't they would not be posting. But hey let's be honest, who wouldn't wa
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by samiv 2y ago
Looks like another dead forum for gamedev. The ultimate problem is that there's just an abundance of people doing game development or game tool (engines, tools etc) development. The market is utterly saturated and honestly it's a
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by samiv 2y ago
I think the biggest threat for future NVIDIa right now is their own current success. Their software platforms and CUDA are a very strong moat against everyone else. I don't see any beating them on that front right now. The problem is t
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by samiv 2y ago
The robots as most people might expect will not take over. The robots will be the software that will slowly start to replace knowledge workers or anyone who works with a computer. If you conduct your work on a computer someone is already pl
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by samiv 2y ago
One of the best snipers ever to have lived was Simo Häyhä. The soviets nicknamed him "The White Death" and he has over 500 kills in the Winter War. (A precursory war just before the start of the WWII between Soviet Union and Finla
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by samiv 2y ago
Just because the company was sold for a bunch of money doesn't mean the people (yes even the founders) got a huge payout. Liquidation preference and other schemes can make sure that when the investors get their money there's nothi
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by samiv 2y ago
Upwards mobility? But that's exactly what younger generations can't do since housing is completely out of reach for them. My example from Munich, a condo going for a 1m €. Median software engineer salary is around 66k € per year.
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by samiv 2y ago
Houses are not durable goods. Their value should go down as they get older (this is in fact how housing is valued in Japan for example). And yes lending per se is not the problem, the problem is using lending to prop up this ponzi scheme th
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by samiv 2y ago
Regarding housing the problems are the same everywhere where the same "housing is an investment" policies have been propped up by lending. What an insane idea. We can all get wealthy by buying houses from each other with ever inc
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by samiv 2y ago
Multithreading yes that works the way you mention but I meant multiple rendering contexts. In standard OpenGL the de-facto way to do parallel GPU resource uploads while rendering is to have multiple rendering contexts in a "share group
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by samiv 2y ago
I didn't mean just WASM -> JS but the WebGL API call overhead which includes marshalling the call from WASM runtime across multiple layers and processes inside the browser. Win32 performance counter has native resolution < 1us Of
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by samiv 2y ago
Not to mention - the incredible overhead of each and every API call - the nerfed timers that jitter on purpose - the limitation of a single rendering context and that you *must* use the JS main thread to all those rendering calls (s
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by samiv 2y ago
But why does this not exist for those who already lost their homes years ago and are living on the streets? A bunch of rich home owners have their houses burned down it's an emergency. Tens of thousands of homeless people live on the s
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by samiv 2y ago
I really agree, I think that making the tests as easy as possible to get going goes a long way towards a code base that actually has tests. I have something very similar. https://github.com/ensisoft/detonator/blob&
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by samiv 2y ago
But the parent was talking about Linux as a generic platform to drive people's computing needs.
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by samiv 2y ago
Sorry but no, Linux simply isn't ready. Not now, not ever. The year of the "Linux desktop" is always 10 years from now . This is the way it has been the past decades and this is the way it will be because the process (bazaar
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by samiv 2y ago
How come this topic dropped off the main page in a flash? One second it was there and then literally a few seconds later it had disappeared... just wondering..

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