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by westoncb 8y ago
Actually I get that now too when I skip through quickly. For me it's because he mostly uses 3d character models during the video—although that's not the default setup. I mostly just watched the beginning earlier and didn't re
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by westoncb 8y ago
If you'd like to try out Doom now, there is an OpenGL port called Doomsday[0] which is very complete and loyal to the original, while smoothing out/modernizing things enough to make it genuinely fun for modern players. For instanc
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by westoncb 8y ago
I've been at two startups, one in Boston and one in San Francisco. At the Boston startup, all the founders but one were very much 'in the trenches'; the one who wasn't was a professor splitting her time elsewhere, so it
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by westoncb 8y ago
I was looking into it a bit today, but was discouraged after hearing some comments about having to specialize on the application source level to accommodate the GAE environment, and that you have to use their proprietary non-relational data
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by westoncb 8y ago
I can second that—it's an excellent book. It put a clear image in my mind of the sort of environment I'd like to develop software in: primarily just a group of friends who have a shared idea of something cool they want to build to
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by westoncb 8y ago
Actually that's missing the piece of data I was looking for: which Node.js libraries/frameworks (for interacting with GraphQL) is it discussing.
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by westoncb 8y ago
Apollo is client-side though, no? I mean for integrating with server code.
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by westoncb 8y ago
Anyone know what framework the book uses (if any)? I tried doing a GraphQL project in Python/Django recently, using Graphene for the GraphQL bits. I didn't end up getting that far because the documentation was so lacking, as were
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by westoncb 8y ago
Seems like from that it's just framework construction. It may have the same internal structure as an ontology, but to say the statements have any external correspondence (to the metaphysical; I'm using 'external' loose
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Any recommendations for 'good OpenGL'?
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by westoncb 8y ago
My understanding is that there are multiple precisely equivalent formulations of classical mechanics (Newtonian mechanics being one of them, but then there's e.g. Lagrangian mechanics[0] and other more exotic things). Perhaps that does
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by westoncb 8y ago
For understanding why that might be, I find this to be an elegant little example: take a pattern of black and white stripes; is it white with black stripes, or is it black with white stripes? The two formulations are identical in consequenc
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by westoncb 8y ago
It's a little non-obvious because of the page layout, but scroll down for the writeup (much of it is about using raymarching as the basis for rendering an interactive application). There are also a bunch of interesting presets via the
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Show HN: Interactive Conway's Game of Life with good graphics and writeup/source(symbolflux.com)
5 points by westoncb 8y ago|1 comments
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by westoncb 8y ago
Interesting no one has pointed out that those explicitly studying human behavior might have some insights on the subject as well, by which I mean psychologists. This is one the most unfortunate things I commonly run into when reading philos
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by westoncb 8y ago
This sounds a lot like what I'm looking for. I haven't looked into Gitlab at all yet, so I'll to check them out.
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by westoncb 8y ago
This is a quite a bit in-line with my thinking. Probably best to go ahead and spend a little time figuring out Docker (and the best way of using it with some hosting service... I'll check out terraform).
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by westoncb 8y ago
That's purely front-end tech if I'm not mistaken. My question here is primarily about the back-end aspects of a project (especially syncing local and production environments, etc.).
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Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up quickly in 2018?
542 points by westoncb 8y ago|558 comments
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by westoncb 8y ago
It actually looks pretty nice (imo), but also seems like another one of those, "well, we'll see if it picks up any steam in a few years..." kinda situations. The article is also clearly written and informative.
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by westoncb 8y ago
Heh, I suspect you are correct—agriculture would have been much easier for me to comprehend. I'm also reminded[0] of Slartibarfast's 'Starship Bistromath'; from Wikipedia: The ship is said to work by abusing the laws of
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by westoncb 8y ago
If I understand correctly Homespring has chosen one metaphor, and you write programs exclusively in the terms of that metaphor. This is not really different from current languages except that the more common metaphor is of a kind of abstrac
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by westoncb 8y ago
Yeah, I think our thinking is pretty similar. I think OOP is very natural fit for thinking about lots of things, and I think there are some great ideas that have come out of the functional paradigm. I still prefer to use a language that has
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Ask HN: Is there a clear, mature discussion of OOP/functional tradeoffs?
4 points by westoncb 8y ago|4 comments
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by westoncb 8y ago
> But I love the author's idea of the machine as a "collaborator" My understanding is that this idea was at the very heart of how/why modern personal computers developed from batch-processing systems. I remember readi
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by westoncb 8y ago
Hehe—I'm working on something very similar (video): http://symbolflux.com/projects/avd —check out the colored sorting algorithm toward the end of the video. And I'm a good bit into the javascript client which
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by westoncb 8y ago
I started reading Roth a couple months ago as part of a project to learn how to write better fiction (I also chose Philip K. Dick at the same time for some reason...). I partly chose Roth after seeing by how much he outnumbered any other wr
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by westoncb 8y ago
I think you're right, and there's definitely a balance to be had here. The first time I came across the notion that there might be a downside to keeping everything 'hypothetical' was in reading William James (I think it
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by westoncb 8y ago
My advice would be to shift your focus to 1) knowledge, 2) domain-specific practice. There are a lot of very fundamental/general concepts that apply to pretty much any domain you want to think in, and they can be some work to acquire,
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Heuristics for Choosing 'Important' Books to Read(westoncb.blogspot.com)
1 points by westoncb 8y ago|0 comments

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