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by soup10 12y ago
Lol my code base is fine thanks. Maximizing productivity and writing maintainable code are not mutually exclusive.
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by soup10 12y ago
I copy and paste code all the time. I'm in the business of getting shit done, not learning everything ever, I don't need to learn the ins and outs of some obscure algorithm I'm only going to use once. I also don't need
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by soup10 12y ago
I disagree, crappy API design wastes an enormous amount of developer time and effort. OpenGL is full of legacy cruft and has lots of room for improvement, streamlining, and simplification(same with d3d12 for that matter). There is a lot o
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by soup10 12y ago
Lol when bitcoin was at $100 and crashed to as low as $3 at one point I thought that was the end of it. It's proved surprisingly resilient though. I think bitcoin only gains value when it reaches new consumers/markets, and loses
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by soup10 13y ago
It's basically just stupid. Lots of people with little to no exceptional talent or skill thinking that they if they just grind it out long enough they'll strike it rich with their mediocre business idea. In NY these people are
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by soup10 13y ago
I disagree, 6B is a large number. Settlements of that size are probably pretty rare. I think the tech companies caved quickly because of the round after round of bad press they were getting(which was doing a number to their "we care
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by soup10 13y ago
Start a business, not a startup. You will have much more control and independence if you aren't desperate for funding and growth, not to mention you are much more likely to succeed. Startups(defined as extremely risky, high reward, g
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by soup10 13y ago
No applause haha, tough crowd! I've certainly seen worse dancing. Very impressive demo.
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by soup10 13y ago
Many cannabis dispensaries and growers have been successful small business for a long time now in states where it's legal. In fact dispensaries in California lobbied against full legalization in an effort to protect the existing econo
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by soup10 13y ago
I don't think proper for YC to release there notes. For one, as soon as you release notes, it opens you up to all sorts of criticism and public outing of frustrations by people that didn't make the cut. Same reason you don't
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by soup10 13y ago
Illegal gambling is hardly a problem anymore since there are so many legal places to gamble. I think she just picked a random item from her mental bucket of "things that sound scary and bad".
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by soup10 13y ago
Except they've added all that metro crap to the already cluttered start menu. Their UI team is still a long way from acknowledging the failure of integrating metro with the desktop; and windows 8 will continue to be a mess until they
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by soup10 13y ago
If making games were like spinning a roulette wheel this might be true. Making games is an art though, and part of that art is learning how to make really great experiences for the player. You can't do that without a focus on quality
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by soup10 13y ago
Actual business advice: one really good game is better than a thousand OK ones. Gaming is a hits based business. Making small games and prototypes may be helpful for learning code and game design since there is more experimentation in the
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by soup10 13y ago
Dons tinfoil hat Obviously a distraction created so that the NSA could thoroughly bug the place.
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by soup10 13y ago
Cool demo and writeup. Why's is it so sparkly though?
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by soup10 13y ago
"As soon as tech yields no more efficiency increases" So like never, right?
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by soup10 13y ago
I partially disagree, the main reason we have app stores is because it was a model that worked fairly well for the iPhone and everyone else badly copied it. The lockin effect is an ancillary benefit.
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by soup10 13y ago
Flash will probably make a comeback when mobile hardware can support it without burning batteries(I wouldn't count on adobe optimizing it any time soon, making non bloated software isn't in their dna). For all it's faults, f
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by soup10 13y ago
Personally I think it's an awful idea to use meta-programming without an exceptionally good reason in production code. Like excessive use of function pointers in C. Just because you can doesn't mean you should. Programming in t
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by soup10 13y ago
Smart engineer/entrepreneurs #1 mistake is thinking that because they are competent in their field(or got good grates at an elite school) that somehow magically translates to competence in business and entrepreneurship. I know and ha
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by soup10 13y ago
So google failed to catch the social bus, who gives a fuck. Google is an engineering company at it's core, and as long as they continue to do ridiculously cool and useful R&D with their search advertising revenues in the hopes of
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by soup10 13y ago
I'm not advocating more government programs or central planning. I think it's more of a cultural issue and balancing social responsibility with profits.
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by soup10 13y ago
"Those who work in banking, venture capital, and other financial firms are in charge of allocating the economy’s investment resources. They decide, in a decentralized and competitive way, which companies and industries will shrink and
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by soup10 13y ago
I'm just saying groupon it's a stupid company that wastes capital IMO(obviously everyone has a different idea of how capital should be put to use). If groupon actually had a good product, retailers would be calling them.
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by soup10 13y ago
Yea, whatsapp has a nosebleed valuation because of it's user base size and lock in effect(zuck hopes at-least, vulnerable to changes in ios and android default messenger), but i'd say its definitely real. I respect them a lot mor
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by soup10 13y ago
Here’s what will change for you, our users: nothing. Here's what will change for us: http://i.imgur.com/3Px9d9K.jpg
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by soup10 13y ago
Seriously lol. Dealing with authorities 101: 1. Be respectful at all times 2. When an authority tells you to do something, do it. Unless you have a really good reason not to. In which case, see 1, and communicate your concern or question
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by soup10 13y ago
I'd bet it was a combination of the "Bird" hitting Angry Birds searches and icon suggesting it was an angry birds game, mario themed art enticing nintendo fans. You often see scam apps employ similar strategies(similar name
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by soup10 13y ago
C++ and C are completely different beasts. C is an elegant clean small language with few distracting elements, making it very suitable for a teaching language. C++ is a grotesquerie more suitable for a carnival horror show than something

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