triplefox

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by triplefox 18y ago
I've never seen this before, but it's definitely a case of being about organization, not tech. It's the difference between "wiki technology" (trivial) and "Wikipedia" (non-trivial).
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by triplefox 18y ago
The owner retains the right to refuse service.
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by triplefox 18y ago
http://www.prairiegames.com/ ed: the biggest issue with an "Indie MMO" is that maintenance costs can make it a non-indie kind of venture very quickly.
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by triplefox 18y ago
Costs for this particular kind of game are mostly content costs: Writing, gameplay scripting, art. The engineering effort doesn't carry over a great deal from one game to another. As well, downloadables get lower market penetration than bro
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by triplefox 18y ago
I vaguely remember using some university's gopher system at a demonstration Internet setup circa 1992-93. That would make me seven or eight years old. The first url I actually remember would probably be liii.com:8000 as that was the host of
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by triplefox 18y ago
A good start would be: try not to waste what you've learned. A starting point would be to imagine ways to improve medicine via computing. There are always ways that our information systems can be improved. It doesn't have to be an impressiv
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by triplefox 18y ago
These days, reality is breaking left and right. Notions like prestige will be left in the dust until society someday reorders itself. Right now it's a continuous chorus of "What! You can actually DO that?" coming from the people who play th
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by triplefox 18y ago
I get this aaall the time and the only way I have of dealing with the "must tell the world" part is to post anonymously on some forum I don't care about and then run away and not even look at the responses. Later on I can look back at it an
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by triplefox 18y ago
While I'd like to believe the article, it doesn't entirely jibe with my B.A. degree's understanding of good economic policy, of which the fundamental tenet is to ensure a marketplace that is both fair and stable. Eliminating corporations wo
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by triplefox 18y ago
I wonder when the day will come that public torrent trackers start earning more than old media publishers?
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by triplefox 18y ago
This article doesn't really state the problem precisely; that problem is large data sets. The Linux kernel has a lot of code but weighs in at ~300MB - not even a gigabyte uncompressed. But if you start checking in lots of binaries - or if y
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by triplefox 18y ago
This does not come as a surprise if you've followed prior evidence suggesting that processed stuff contains less nutrition than natural foods(whole grains, grass-fed, organic, etc).
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by triplefox 18y ago
It's always been a "means to an end" for me, as the real reason for me to program was always to be able to design video games down to the last detail. So it was a reluctant process at first, especially when it seemed like the only options(a
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by triplefox 18y ago
Just when I thought I had settled on hg, something new comes along that gives me second thoughts.
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by triplefox 18y ago
I can make no conclusive judgement in the example scenario until we're talking about specific algorithms and data.
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Erlang's Type System(people.csail.mit.edu)
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by triplefox 18y ago
I can bring it down to one word: MacGyver.
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by triplefox 18y ago
One way to test your partner's trust is to deliberately instigate a money fight. It probably will happen later if not now, and now's when there's little at stake. Figure out a few "hard lines in the sand" that an unscrupulous person would r
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by triplefox 18y ago
You are simply conflating CS with programming, which is very commonplace. Programming is the craft/art skill of manipulating digital code and data. Within programming you can learn about specific domains - for web apps that would mean datab
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by triplefox 18y ago
You lose the knowledge your workers acquired on the job; a new hire cannot offer you that. So this only works if you are in a franchise business where everyone works to a script and does not innovate, develop long-term relationships, or per
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by triplefox 18y ago
I'd add the book "Thinking Forth", which I just read again recently: http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/ The ideas present - which are much more craftsmanlike than an academic paper - are easy to absorb by skimming, and they're still r
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by triplefox 18y ago
If you're talking about more than trivial applications(examples: computational geometry, statistics, parsing and saving common formats) libraries become important as a means of offloading effort. They can be abused, for sure, and by being o
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by triplefox 18y ago
I think to some extent it depends on the kind of thing you're doing that necessitates the additional activity of a startup. Linus did not start a startup to make Linux. He still hasn't bothered with one, though he certainly could have done
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by triplefox 18y ago
Unless the SWF you are hosting also creates a new network connection, the only load you take on is from the file transfer.
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by triplefox 18y ago
Time at my job: An official 8 hours of butt-in-chair. Actual work: usually more like 4 hours. (This is on days without meetings! The things I'm doing right now have a major bottleneck caused by a programmer fresh out of school who did not r
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by triplefox 18y ago
In my opinion the interactive form basically allows a kind of meaning that is different from narratives. Environments, character designs, and other elements that are tangential to a narrative experience(such as music), often come to dominat
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by triplefox 18y ago
What I recall from his other writings is that he suggests watching the market, but with different eyes from the crowd. A company with sound fundamentals that suffers bad market news is a buying opportunity. The opposite is harder to find,
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by triplefox 18y ago
Indeed. Patterns are what you use when there is no cleaner option for the situation. Recently I've been writing some code which is surprisingly amenable to a cut+paste approach: A tool which automatically generates level layouts for a game.
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by triplefox 18y ago
It can be done, it depends mostly on how you like to learn. You will never see a lot of hand-holding in programming. Manuals and references for programming languages tell you about the syntax and major features but demand endless curiosity
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by triplefox 18y ago
If learning game programming interests you, you may want to try coding a 2d rectangle collision system. Not just intersection tests(that is the easy part) but also a collision response that can either cleanly separate intersections or preve

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