spacelizard

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by spacelizard 10y ago
> So much of the online world is premised on feedback loops and empty rewards, like levels in games or even karma points on Hacker News. You get "praised" by these systems just for using them. It can become an addiction like g
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by spacelizard 10y ago
25 years ago people would have said the same thing about OS kernels, and yet here we are. Some of the underlying problems I see are that the game industry is still young and hasn't really standardized everything yet. Because of that, t
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by spacelizard 10y ago
It gets worse when you work in ops and are constantly needing to remote into servers and you regularly have tmux within a tmux within a tmux... Littering config files across the datacenter just isn't an option.
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by spacelizard 10y ago
I remember when they first released it as free software, it's come a long way since then. It's remarkable to see how much traction they've gotten. Bravo!
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by spacelizard 10y ago
I think it is more important than ever that games aren't built on top of proprietary software. I am constantly hearing people complaining about: - Restrictive DRM ruining the experience - Servers being suddenly shut down with no recour
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by spacelizard 10y ago
If we could engineer a chemical agent that forces people to love each other, couldn't we end all armed conflict right then and there?
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by spacelizard 10y ago
If you ask me, the GIMP-vs-Photoshop debate has become so much of a dead-horse-beating exercise, to the point where I no longer believe that it is fair to compare those two programs as being anything similar. The only comparison I can draw
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by spacelizard 10y ago
It's actually not that ridiculous or difficult to reduce your proprietary software usage. I also think it's a fallacy to say that free software is generally low-quality -- let's not forget that there is plenty of shoddy, badl
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by spacelizard 10y ago
I get the appeal of 3D touch but it has absolutely no discoverability - this feels like a complete setback in UX design. Apple used to be known for having UIs that had a lot of visual cues and didn't hide features from the user. Howeve
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by spacelizard 10y ago
I have too but I don't see any magic in Rust's borrowing beyond what you would get with using shared_ptr, weak_ptr and move semantics in C++11. Yeah there is a certain class of errors that the Rust compiler will check that will st
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by spacelizard 10y ago
The echoes of Golang hype right now are somewhat ominous. A few years ago it was "concurrency primitives are going to change your life" and now it's "lifetime/ownership primitives are going to change your life.&quot
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by spacelizard 10y ago
Brings back fond memories of the first time I learned C, when I really had to dig into what the difference was between storage durations (auto/stack, dynamic/heap, static, thread local). It makes it increasingly important to think
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by spacelizard 10y ago
I can think of a few: - Have the employee agree to grant a royalty-free license to all relevant inventions made in the appropriate time period - Have the employee forfeit all inventions in the event they initiate litigation - Or better, sig
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by spacelizard 10y ago
It's disappointing that there are no conventions or legislation to rectify this situation. I have several side projects going right now, and it gets frustrating going to interviews and being asked to give up all of it just for the supp
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Stay away from game test(medium.com)
2 points by spacelizard 10y ago|0 comments
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by spacelizard 10y ago
Most educational systems are rooted in child-care, not in actually educating students. And the ones that do have the resources to properly educate students are often so entrenched in politics and status that they become better conduits for
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by spacelizard 10y ago
Yeah I think this is the real win - the examples in the paper don't really cover any of the real reasons why someone would use functional programming. The places that I've used C++ lambdas a lot are callback-heavy code, i.e. thing
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by spacelizard 10y ago
The same is true of literally every piece of software ever distributed regardless of license.
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by spacelizard 10y ago
It would be nice to see a future where all applications have some concept of peer-to-peer networking and would be able to talk to each other. My hope is that this leads to blurring the line between having separate architectures for server,
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Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection [pdf](dash.harvard.edu)
2 points by spacelizard 10y ago|0 comments
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by spacelizard 10y ago
Personally as a fellow free software developer, I take whatever opportunities I can to look closer at what value the software is really providing for the user. Is your primary user actually interested in the freedom and community the softwa
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by spacelizard 10y ago
Yes you can, but that's beside the point. For a complicated application like this there obviously is value in both the source code and the pre-built binaries. I think people would be a little less annoyed if this didn't seem to be
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by spacelizard 10y ago
Thanks Gavan! This is exciting, I've been waiting for this for a while. The code looks super hacky, but that's to be expected :) Hopefully it gets ported to Mac and GNU/Linux soon. If not, I'd definitely like to try and
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by spacelizard 10y ago
I think the point is that sociopolitical struggles continue outside of what we do as free software authors, and so we regularly need to re-examine the greater context in which we operate.
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by spacelizard 10y ago
A lot of people forget that VCs are salesmen trying to sell a financing product. These come with the usual risks.
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by spacelizard 10y ago
>DRM will be built because the content studios demand it, and the studios hold the content which everyone wants Why do you believe the copyright holders (or the browser makers) are the ones who potentially hold absolute power in this sce
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by spacelizard 11y ago
From their FAQ: https://neo900.org/faq#peripherals >We unfortunately cannot provide free baseband modem firmware, as there is no option available on the market which would be able to fulfil this requirement. Even if it e
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by spacelizard 11y ago
Not quite, but you can come close. I have Cyanogen installed on all my Android devices and I try to use as little proprietary software as possible. However I am patiently waiting for the Neo900, which is a free (libre) hardware design based
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by spacelizard 11y ago
The tendency to just remove features without so much as a word of warning to users seems pretty popular these days. I think it is most commonly seen as part of a push to remove complexity from the program. Unfortunately this mentality can a
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Intel Completes $16.7B Altera Deal(eweek.com)
162 points by spacelizard 11y ago|73 comments

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