waivek

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by waivek 8y ago
I like to play and code video games.
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by waivek 8y ago
I don't use Linux.
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by waivek 8y ago
I don't want to think about versions of apps. I just want to use the app.
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by waivek 8y ago
Can it install Unreal Engine, Unity and Visual Studio?
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by waivek 8y ago
With Linux desktops I have to know command line stuff and risk having to debug initial wifi issues myself.
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by waivek 8y ago
PortableApps are still not as good as mobile where I don't have to store backups of outdated apps personally.
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by waivek 8y ago
I did try it. I use PotPlayer, Unity, Unreal as my daily drivers.
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by waivek 8y ago
Whenever I get a new Windows laptop, the first four or five hours are spent reinstalling software that I use on a daily basis. I can just leave a new phone next to the router. With windows, I have to sit and monitor a lot of things for thos
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by waivek 8y ago
Exactly! If I want to write my AAA game engine in JavaScript and Haskell it still has the same chance of success as an engine in C++
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by waivek 8y ago
I want to be able to play Skyrim on the toilet.
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Why GitHub can't host the Linux kernel community(blog.ffwll.ch)
3 points by waivek 8y ago|1 comments
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by waivek 8y ago
Why Github can't host the Linux kernel community https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14972872
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by waivek 8y ago
If I remember correctly, IDEA has a zero latency typing mode: https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/
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by waivek 8y ago
1. and 2. might be related
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by waivek 9y ago
The whole talk is interesting. Here's a timestamp of the different topics covered (courtesy of u/1wd on r/programming): 00:27 Introduction by Prof. Keith Robinson 03:32 Start talk "Innovation and Invention" 04:51 &q
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by waivek 9y ago
If the timestamp doesn't work, he covers this topic at the 0:35:25 mark.
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John Carmack on setting deadlines(youtube.com)
2 points by waivek 9y ago|3 comments
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by waivek 9y ago
what's your net mrr from these projects
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by waivek 9y ago
he wants his kids to be astronauts and they say no because they know it annoys him lol
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by waivek 9y ago
or spend money for content
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by waivek 9y ago
What are the other 4 in your top 5?
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by waivek 9y ago
The piece is inaccurate and most of the mathematicians quoted have distanced themselves from it. It's journalism at it's worst. One of the key figures in the article sent this to the New Yorker after it was published - http:&#x2F
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by waivek 9y ago
He should be impeached for such a transgression.
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by waivek 9y ago
The magazine layout is gorgeous
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by waivek 9y ago
I think your last sentence sums it up perfectly. It does seem that we have different views on software. Rebutting your points would just rehash my above comment. The only new point I'd like to add is one that requires imagination. Imag
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by waivek 9y ago
If text editors slowed down by 3x, I'd be happy. The latency I am complaining about is orders of magnitude higher than 3x. This is the most rigorous benchmarking that I am aware of: https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pl
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by waivek 9y ago
If I may, a rebuttal. The software methodology that has evolved over the last two decades has focused on development time. As such, there has not been much focus/research on performance-first methodologies. I see no reason that develop
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by waivek 9y ago
One point that I wish the article had expanded on is the impact on software development. In a recent speech, John Carmack talks of how the power of the desktop will never reach mobile. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vlYL16-Na
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Run Windows 2000 in your browser(bellard.org)
190 points by waivek 9y ago|78 comments
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by waivek 9y ago
It looks a lot more like the Pokémon wooper.

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