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by smrq 8y ago
To be honest, I think this is the primary weakness of Handmade Hero. Casey is plainly a more talented programmer than designer, and his missteps in the latter domain felt to me more like wasted time than valuable experience. This is why I
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by smrq 8y ago
The notion of optimal compression is nonsense anyway. Here is even more digits of pi, compressed to fit into this comment: π Decompression may take some work.
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by smrq 8y ago
Same thing happened to me in Guild Wars. I loved that game to death, but I'm honestly grateful.
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by smrq 8y ago
> * There's syntax for providing a value in case of null. (x ?: fallback) in Kotlin, (x || fallback) in Typescript. Well, uh, unless T can be falsy. 0 || fallback === fallback. A proper ?? operator a la C# would be great, but they
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by smrq 8y ago
Not quite the same thing. The character 子 has many different readings, meaning it is pronounced differently depending on context. E.g. 子 on its own is KO, but in the word 中性子 (chuuseishi) it is pronounced SHI. Those different pronunciati
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by smrq 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
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by smrq 8y ago
Paranoid response: if such a versioning ledger were to exist, how could you trust it? The feasibility problem still remains (it is feasible to alter archives that were formerly infeasible) and you now rely on trust that (1) all alterations
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by smrq 8y ago
Incidentally, for those not familiar with early Earth, she is a guest on their debut EP, Extra-Capsular Extraction, along with a friend of the band you might have heard of named Kurt Cobain.
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by smrq 8y ago
I grew up in the Midwest and it's the only scissors brand I can name from memory. Maybe it's a thing for US Millennials.
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by smrq 8y ago
I have arguments with my girlfriend about this. She says she's concerned for my well-being because I am skeptical of most dietary recommendations. I have to convince her that detox shakes are a scam perpetrated by snake-oil salesmen tr
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by smrq 8y ago
And, in a similar but shorter-winded vein, the Lyttle Lytton: http://adamcadre.ac/lyttle.html
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by smrq 8y ago
Just to throw in my own anecdote, I took linear algebra twice (in high school with no college credit, and in college) and I still couldn't ever remember afterwards what an eigenvector was until I watched that series. Now I'll pr
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by smrq 9y ago
Thanks to this comment, I've now spent this past weekend binging the entire Ben Eater 8-bit computer series this far. Very entertaining, and I certainly learned a few things about computer architecture. I'm very tempted to do the
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by smrq 9y ago
And similarly, we called it a universe because nothing observable can be outside it. Unless... The analogy is quite apt, really, just switching out bigness in place of smallness.
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by smrq 9y ago
That's a nice idea in theory, but in practice, players will take the most efficient method of completing a task, even if that method isn't fun. If you give players autopilot, they will use it, even if they would prefer the game wi
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by smrq 9y ago
That's absolutely fascinating, not to mention a stronger attack. I use a self-designed and manufactured keyboard, so I'd definitely be immune to a database of various keyboard designs--mine is one-of-a-kind. But I doubt that the d
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by smrq 9y ago
Not to discount your experience, which is pretty consistent with my own, but what you've just described is writing your own wrapper component. I think there's something to be said for doing it yourself, particularly when the avail
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by smrq 9y ago
I feel like every page posted to HN that has any JavaScript gets this comment. It's usually an overreaction in my opinion. For this page, it wasn't. Holy moly, it took a rather generous amount of time until it loaded the loading
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by smrq 9y ago
In a world where SEO consultants exist, you foresee an inevitable future where Google is killed by a massive wave of companies rewriting their websites to be un-Googleable?
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by smrq 9y ago
My anecdata indicates the opposite, as far as quality of recommendations is concerned. Curious how matters of taste might mean that you can't accurately make sweeping generalizations like this.
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by smrq 9y ago
Seconding this recommendation. The more electronic- or instrumental-oriented songwriters on the show tend to get more into the nitty-gritty details of production, layering sounds, etc. (the first two episodes with The Postal Service and Th
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by smrq 9y ago
Codegen your TS interfaces from your server endpoints. You don't need run-time enforcement if you have a compile-time guarantee that the endpoint you're hitting will return a specific type back. TypeLite ( https://www.n
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by smrq 10y ago
I switched away from Dashlane after several years because their software has been getting progressively more unstable. Force-killing the Dashlane executable because the browser plugin has locked up got pretty old.
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by smrq 10y ago
While another commenter has mentioned that this is technically not correct with Lisp, it holds for the lambda calculus. You don't need loops to be TC if you have recursion. And for that you don't even need named functions-- note
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by smrq 10y ago
To be honest, I'd rather go to a loud show with earplugs than a quiet show without. Half the fun of a live show is the visceral punch of the literal sound waves.
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by smrq 10y ago
Foam earplugs are absolute garbage. The difference is night and day. With foam, it's like being at a rock show underwater. With musician's earplugs, it's like being at a rock show at a reasonable volume. Spend the $20.
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by smrq 10y ago
But the abstraction there is a lot more battle-hardened than your business logic at $COMPANY. Not that compiler bugs never happen, but it's comparatively quite rare.
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by smrq 10y ago
Nobody's saying that arbitrary corporate restrictions are well thought out.
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by smrq 10y ago
I love this concept--I'd be using it daily, but last time I tried it the Sublime Text implementation was unusably slow. Admittedly, I am pretty picky on what's unusable. Also, this page lists it as an "incorrect implementati
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by smrq 10y ago
This is really interesting. I think there's a lot of room for improvement in the tooling, though, and my gut instinct is that theoretically, Browserified/Webpacked code can be as fast if not faster than other compiled methods. T

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