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by wtetzner 5y ago
> First-class functions, lambdas, and closures are mostly unheard of in the top 20 programming languages. Aside from JS, you're pretty much out of luck. This was true at one point, but most popular languages have them now, don'
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by wtetzner 5y ago
> A vertical list is a waste of horizontal space when it's a list of movie posters. It doesn't need to be a list of movie posters. > If you want a grid, its basically what they have. It's not though, you have to scroll
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by wtetzner 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg
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by wtetzner 5y ago
I'm pretty sure you'd still call it copyright infringement.
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by wtetzner 5y ago
Not to argue either way about piracy, but it sounds like you might want to work on getting a better contract.
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by wtetzner 5y ago
> Mostly boil down to making better stuff for cheaper. I wonder if they'd be better off making better quality content, but less of it.
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by wtetzner 5y ago
How about a list you can vertically scroll through, with the option to filter based on various criteria?
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by wtetzner 5y ago
I suspect that even for the slow games you listed, performance was very important to get the number of features they needed into the game. > After all premature optimization is the root of all evil. This quote means not to optimize too
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by wtetzner 5y ago
Yeah, he definitely comes off as an ass in that thread of Tweets.
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by wtetzner 5y ago
While Python is technically "more modern", it's only by ~6 years.
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by wtetzner 5y ago
It’s not at all the same. In Smalltalk, you can modify your environment in real time.
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by wtetzner 5y ago
Why do we assume it's improperly built?
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by wtetzner 5y ago
It's unclear that any of those are true if you need to maintain a distributed build system.
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by wtetzner 5y ago
I think you misunderstood "more powerful". I don't think they were referring to the hardware being more powerful, but the OS in terms of its flexibility.
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by wtetzner 5y ago
But at that point, what exactly are you gaining?
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by wtetzner 5y ago
> But what if that's an accurate understanding of the company culture? Then avoiding the language would effectively be tricking people into applying when they wouldn't actually want to work under those conditions.
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by wtetzner 5y ago
> at the time the science suggested that was the best path That's not how science works.
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by wtetzner 5y ago
> First, Emacs should have sensible defaults like Ctrl-c for copying and Ctrl-v for pasting. Except that would break a ton of existing commands, since ctrl-c is use as a prefix for a bunch of stuff already. You'd be making it hard f
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by wtetzner 5y ago
And too much linoleic acid.
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by wtetzner 5y ago
I think you're missing the point about performance in games. More than in other kinds of software, adding new "features" to games tends to slow the game down more (you're trying to do more in the time you have to render
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by wtetzner 5y ago
> Maybe there is some other factor, like constant hard training of the brain by having ever-evolving creative work instead of kind of same office work, or some other aspect. I have a suspicion that a lot of it comes down to diet. After a
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by wtetzner 5y ago
Sounds less addictive than caffeine.
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by wtetzner 5y ago
> Animals, and mammals in particular, lack the cellular and metabolic level repair mechanisms that would make it possible for us to keep running at peak ability indefinitely. Given some of the research on anti-aging, it's not clear
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by wtetzner 5y ago
I certainly don't do everything in a browser. I usually have at most 2 browser windows open (usually just one). For important browser-based apps, I just pin the tabs. I actually find the macOS model to be more convenient (even though I
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by wtetzner 5y ago
Simple isn’t the same as convenient.
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by wtetzner 5y ago
I think it was a joke about the band.
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by wtetzner 5y ago
Was Scala used for the game engine? It sounded to me like it was just used to write the compiler for Vale.
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by wtetzner 5y ago
It’s high levels of _oxidized_ LDL that’s problematic. https://youtu.be/DXKJaQeteE0
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by wtetzner 5y ago
I think the idea is just to have different kinds of backups that have different failure modes, to make losing everything at once less likely.
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by wtetzner 5y ago
Or in your pants pocket, next to your testicles.

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