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by unoti 15y ago
This is something I've done recently in Go: it's actually an exercise I first read about in an Erlang book. It's the book "Erlang Programming". In the book he describes this exercise: "Implement a simulated world inhabited by carrots, rab
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by unoti 15y ago
Agreed. Unit tests are the one saving grace of Javascript, for me. I use Jasmine and CoffeeScript as well. The unit tests seem to only help me for the backend parts of my projects. In Javascript right now for me this is games, so there'
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by unoti 15y ago
Where are the bars in San Francisco where people are likely to know what Y Combinator is? I just moved here and don't know of them.
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by unoti 15y ago
It seems to me that these discussions produce far more heat than light. If one needs to build an application, what is the benefit to sweating these details to such an extent? I don't mean to denigrate any of the fine work that's gone to f
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by unoti 15y ago
I wonder how long it takes to make a southpark episode. Or one of those news reinactment cg segments that asian outfit is famous for. Perhaps new forms of media won't take the same shape or have the same factors apply.
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by unoti 15y ago
"Zynga has constructed a super-sonic ultra-high-altitude aircraft to recover the bar it's accidentally set for itself in the exosphere." A fine finish for this article! I think this means Zynga has probably peaked?
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by unoti 15y ago
It's funny. "Starting a farm" seems like it'd be easier than my current schlep, which is figuring out how to market an app. Researching "how to start a farm" seems like a problem I could sink my teeth into a lot easier. To me that suppor
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by unoti 15y ago
Many years ago I spotted a related anti-pattern, and explained it to people this way: "Yes, you don't have to be a programmer to customize this system. But you do have to be a rocket scientist. Just programming would be easier." Usually
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by unoti 15y ago
A section of the article says this: Raf describes two requirements for serendipity to occur: 1. Active searching: The designer should not simply wait for inspiration to strike, but should immerse himself in ideas and look for harmonies bet
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by unoti 15y ago
For most projects, if you're using PHP, you probably can't eliminate your dependencies. If you really can afford on a project to go super clean and not need a bunch of other libraries, then maybe this is a really good time to be using some
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by unoti 15y ago
Go get your HAM radio license. It's a great way to get in touch with your hacker roots, and connect with interesting like-minded people. The most important resource when any kind of trouble breaks out is friends, and HAM radio people are
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by unoti 15y ago
Their content management system probably has four screens of upselling before the spell checker kicks in, causing their eyes to glaze over.
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by unoti 15y ago
When the shabby old man is put on trial for jury tampering, shouldn't a jury of his peers find him not guilty? The deliberation on that trial could be very interesting. Or very difficult because the judge won't let the defendant's counsel
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by unoti 15y ago
I'm an indie developer on Android, just starting to make an iOS version of my first app. My app is very well polished (look here http://www.pillowfightgames.com/jargoneer/ ) but it's still insanely hard to do marketing-- probably because
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by unoti 15y ago
Besides, learning about the importance of commitment to excellence is something that can be learned in a lot of places, as you demonstrate. It's a lesson that's lost on most people. Don't struggle to accept the time spent on CS; embrace i
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by unoti 15y ago
It's highly parallel, and suggests also how multiple agents might collaborate to seek a goal (such as blocking all the possible exits that a pac man might take). See section 3.2 of the paper ( http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~ralex/papers/PDF/O
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by unoti 15y ago
Solidarity, and community is almost certainly part of it. When doing an independent side project, the fact that nobody knows the difference makes it easier to let it slide. Just having someone know about your commitment, even if it's a co
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by unoti 15y ago
Here's how I did it for Scala. I went to project Euler, and did the first problem. Then I looked at other people's answers in the same language. I discovered they were doing these tiny little 1 line solutions using functional programming
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by unoti 15y ago
Why do we use xorl to store 0, but mov for 1? mov $1, %eax xorl %ebx, %ebx # Why not mov for this one? mov $0, %ebx # Wouldn't this work as well? I'm guessing mov would work in either case, but there's some reason people alway
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by unoti 15y ago
I develop apps for both iPhone and Android. I stopped carrying my iPhone for personal use, and use my Droid Bionic full time. Here are the 3 reasons why. 1. Google Maps, and navigation. If you're actually driving places, google maps is
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by unoti 15y ago
When I was a teenager, I delivered furniture with my dad, who was a furniture refinisher. He used to pride himself on being able to deliver furniture without ever saying a word between himself and his delivery partner, and trained me to do
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by unoti 15y ago
Oh the irony. I click on this article on my iPad, and the article immediately talks about how this content is only visible with Flash.
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by unoti 15y ago
You do want to improve, but just relax and do your best work. Continue to learn and read other people's code that you respect. But don't let your desire to improve and impress others stress you out. Also, consider the rule of threes on r
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by unoti 15y ago
I do game programming for Android, and use Scala for my server infrastructure. I'd like to use Scala for the Android device as well, but haven't even tried because I'm concerned about garbage collection. You see, I can't even use Java ite
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by unoti 15y ago
Or perhaps the trucker, the gas station attendant, or both get nabbed by crazed mobs of people wanting to loot the contents of the truck and the gas station. Watch some videos of, say, the LA Riots. Here's a video of truck driver Reginald
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by unoti 16y ago
Here are some thought provoking ideas for computer hackers that he discusses at some length: * Is it a good idea or bad idea to listen to music while working? Why? * Do machines have souls, and can they? * Why do machines frustrate me
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by unoti 16y ago
You're absolutely right, but this is well covered ground when dealing with smaller software vendors in a B2B environment. Source code escrow ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_code_escrow ) is something we would often do when I worked f
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by unoti 16y ago
It was "Improving Software Quality: An Insider's Guide to TQM" from Wiley. A lot of people fear the idea of formalized process, thinking that it is going to saddle them down with the useless baggage of unneeded red tape and forms. It's ac
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by unoti 16y ago
Your idea about tracking daily pain points was the most important thing I ever did, as well-- sort of. I tracked, over a one year period, every single defect that made it into production that I had to correct. I did this at the inspiration
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by unoti 16y ago
The ideas we're talking about here are discussed thoroughly in the surprisingly fascinating book "Winning through Intimidation." My ex-girlfriend was a touchy-feely people person, a trainer by trade. She often cited that book as being str

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