triplefox

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by triplefox 17y ago
For me the most important thing has been stability of time. If I can plan that on any given day, my "usual thing" will be to code a bit in the evening, that's exactly what I'll do - even if I miss a few times. But if I'm getting jerked arou
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by triplefox 17y ago
A thought I had today is that programming is a perpetual battle between "if it ain't broke don't fix it" and "computers are here to make our lives easier." Doing one impedes the other.
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by triplefox 17y ago
To answer in sort of a roundabout way, I think the problem domain matters a lot for how much you relatively learn when switching languages. With web app backends, for example, most of the problems somehow relate to difficulty maintaining st
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by triplefox 17y ago
The problem back in the day was always documentation and concept-acquisition. To some extent documentation is still a problem, but at least with modern languages a lot of the APIs and data structures for common tasks are sitting at your fin
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by triplefox 17y ago
I find it somewhat amazing that the orders of magnitude difference isn't larger.
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by triplefox 17y ago
Make a high-speed train startup?
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by triplefox 17y ago
Many modern games have taken the trend of just dumbing down the gameplay so that what the player actually has is not at all about challenge, but just an experience, with some gameplay mechanics as added-value. The puzzle-genre version of th
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by triplefox 17y ago
Parkour has a purity to it that is hard to find in most pursuits. The thrust towards utility and awareness of one's own environment distinguishes it from "stunt performance." Danger and physical challenge are only part of the picture. It re
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by triplefox 18y ago
I've followed the "Programmer's Stone" concepts off-and-on, almost forgot about them entirely. This is definitely the best iteration of them yet.
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by triplefox 18y ago
This is highly unsurprising. You can extrapolate it to online venues like this one - most of the articles are actually a reply in some ongoing global dialogue, and over time those topics tend to calcify into a set of repetitive memes. I don
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by triplefox 18y ago
It is entirely a technical limitation of Flash. You have no way of guaranteeing a set sound latency, or even monitoring how much is present. According to the Adobe devs this might change in future versions. But for right now, music games on
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by triplefox 18y ago
I am an avid haXe user. It has static inferred typing with a "Dynamic" type, "untyped" blocks, and casting, all of which work more-or-less as advertised: the type system gets out of the way when you ask it to, and the rest of the time you g
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by triplefox 18y ago
Within a large city, the difference between one public school and the next can be the difference between a serious study environment, and an environment where the majority are in gangs or come from broken families, and class is disrupted on
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by triplefox 18y ago
Signs are accumulating that the industry is going to shift towards lower-budget projects because the blockbuster-centric model has become unsustainable on multiple levels - cost+time risks, a uncertain future consumer market, technology hit
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by triplefox 18y ago
There is a parallel to this in music called Gear Acquisition Syndrome; when you crave new gear in hopes of stoking inspiration or improving your sound, even when this is a dubious proposition at best. People with too much GAS tend to be muc
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by triplefox 18y ago
Interesting that you mention that given that dental health is already directly linked to cardiovascular health, via incidence of inflammation and gum disease.
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by triplefox 18y ago
To take this to an extreme, you could simply ask people - off or online - "Do you ever have problem x?" implicitly asking about the problem your product will solve. The more responses you get, the more you'll know you're on to something.
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by triplefox 18y ago
I downloaded it and what I saw was the very empty beginnings of a game engine. Edit: Also, the documentation persistently says "it's very simple to ---" and then dumps a code example on you without actually explaining the concept.
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by triplefox 18y ago
It's already too late. It's gotten worse every day for the last month, I think.
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by triplefox 18y ago
There is a certain universality in the "Forth philosophy" across many developer communities. (one could stretch it to include life too, but it gets a bit tired at that point) Unix wizards believe in "Worse is Better." Lisp and Smalltalk hac
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by triplefox 18y ago
Meatball Wiki is a good general source of wiki advice: http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl I recall reading on it somewhere the point that there are several possible formats of wiki - namely, the "discussion" format and the "document" for
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by triplefox 18y ago
We are cyborgs. Our technology is not orthogonal to our biology.
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by triplefox 18y ago
I think many developer tools - and perhaps Unix-style tools in particular - suffer from this problem of skipping past concepts to syntax. There's an inherent expectation that you aren't a user who wants just the "shallow" common-case uses,
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by triplefox 18y ago
Latency is only "solved" in modern games by hacking around things on both the client and server so that visual indicators are predicted on the client, and conflicting interactions(e.g. two players firing and killing each other simultaneousl
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Soft Security(usemod.com)
1 points by triplefox 18y ago|0 comments
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by triplefox 18y ago
It was indeed down in the early morning.
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by triplefox 18y ago
I don't think it's NIH exactly, but a certain laziness and unwillingness to try anything but the simplest(even stupidest) solution. My observations and personal experience indicate that a 10x will reuse formats, languages, and protocols, an
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by triplefox 18y ago
I think it's supposed to be avant-garde.
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by triplefox 18y ago
A one man company can easily create jobs if it hits the right niche and unlocks a sub-market of related goods and services. So no, you definitely don't have to get big.
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by triplefox 18y ago
Lua is well-liked because it's runs very close to C and easy to embed against, it's Algol-like, it has no dependencies beyond C itself, and it performs decently. It isn't as widely used as Python or Ruby because being embedded means it has

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