xigency

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by xigency 12y ago
It is actually very easy/simple. Imagine a piece of Java code that calls "new Object()". I don't program in Go, but essentially, the VM would create a temporary variable x := MakeObject(typename = "Object"). Th
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by xigency 12y ago
That is the benefit of working on hard problems that are almost entirely technical. Especially if you are working alone, and usually not getting paid, it's easy to not get distracted by fad movements or popularization in simply writing
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by xigency 12y ago
Cool! This sounds exactly like an idea that I've had before. What my friends and I called it was 'GameTube' which would be a platform for making and sharing games online. That was part of what motivated me to work on the Duck
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Google releases new Street View images of disaster-hit Tohoku(japantimes.co.jp)
1 points by xigency 12y ago|0 comments
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by xigency 12y ago
There are thousands of independent/homebrew projects that call Google Code their home that will probably vanish overnight. And not everyone likes using Git to begin with. I don't see why they don't put stricter requirements o
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by xigency 12y ago
Is that really how it works?
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by xigency 12y ago
Found it in a couple minutes by hand. I started from the position (3,3) and circled the board looking for "Y" surrounded by two A's, and checking for the phrase. Working inward it's only a matter of time before you find
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by xigency 12y ago
I applied for a job at Fog Creek Software in 2012 where I was accepted for an internship, and I would have to say the application process was difficult, but fair. I was told that there were hundreds of applicants, so being one of five inter
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by xigency 12y ago
I think this tends to happen a lot.
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by xigency 12y ago
This is strikingly similar to a web interface for chess that I just made, even down to the public domain icons. Really slick, but playing against randomized opponents is not very thrilling. There are also limitations to just optimizing for
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by xigency 12y ago
There are plenty of exceptional people who are not given any sort of meaningful opportunities.
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by xigency 12y ago
Sure.
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by xigency 12y ago
No, I took iodine pills. I studied phonetics in a language lab and volunteered with other international students at a local elementary school, among other things.
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by xigency 12y ago
Just a tough couple of months. Thanks.
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by xigency 12y ago
He asked if he could use the conference room. I said I was there for the interview. He asked if he was being interviewed. I said, no I was. And then he asked if he could Skype someone. So I ran through a few buildings looking for my hiring
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by xigency 12y ago
It's just a huge red flag to me that the employees of a massive international company could be so globally unaware looking at the dates and locations of things printed on my resume to not ask a single question about it. Furthermore,
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by xigency 12y ago
This is an example of a first-person shooter game written in JavaScript using WebGL. All of the (limited) art assets are generated procedurally. The game uses the team duck game engine (tedge.js) which handles things like loading shaders, b
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by xigency 12y ago
He was waiting to use a conference room and misheard me.
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by xigency 12y ago
In this case I am the only American to voluntarily move to a radioactive fallout zone in Japan immediately after the Tohoku earthquake where I studied computer science at Japan's only school dedicated exclusively to the field. So while
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by xigency 12y ago
At the end of the interview I was left alone in an office where an employee showed up and thought I was there to interview him. Still, I understand your point.
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by xigency 12y ago
From interviewing at Google, I had a really robotic impression of employees and life there. The entire process was disorganized. I drove four hours across the state to get there, navigating all sorts of construction, and found my own accomm
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Show HN: RIFT – A prototype sci-fi FPS game demo in the browser(team-duck.com)
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by xigency 12y ago
Best answer: It's free to use and super easy to customize
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by xigency 12y ago
An example of the fixed-point combinator in Duck: function fixed_point(f) function curry(g, i) function recurse(j) return g(g, j) end return f(recurse, i) end function apply(k) return curry(c
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by xigency 12y ago
Thanks. It's meant for anyone to use. The language is basically in Play-Doh form at this point, so it's something you can do whatever you want with. Obviously, depending on what you want to do, it might take more effort on your pa
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by xigency 12y ago
For those of you wondering about the motivations of this, I'd like to explain that it's mostly an enthusiast project but it might have some utility down the road. Honestly, I don't see anyone else using this language besides
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by xigency 12y ago
I'd really encourage you to checkout the git repo and modify the syntax yourself. It's almost like play-doh.
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by xigency 12y ago
Going through the language forming stage I've really been at a loss to how other languages accomplish certain features. Revisiting some older code I had written I had to start contemplating syntax like var_name$ for strings or decmial_
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by xigency 12y ago
These are good questions. The end goal is much farther along than what's being presented now. This has, for the most part, been a one person effort. I was motivated by my Compilers course and a minimal Java compiler we developed target
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Duck Programming Language(ducklang.org)
93 points by xigency 12y ago|22 comments

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