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by zanny 8y ago
I've been exclusively buying AMD discrete graphics for the better part of a decade since they started developing their open driver. Between a 4850, 7870, 290, and 580 I've been a satisfied customer. It was rough waters in 2012, bu
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by zanny 8y ago
Giving companies money that use DRM that drives you to pirate promotes the continued use of crippling DRM. If you don't actually want a game in the form a distributor gives it to you at the price they ask then no, you aren't a los
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by zanny 8y ago
SteamOS isn't a free and open gaming OS. It would take a tremendous amount of design effort and integration to make a seamless interface for multiple stores to intermix. Remember Valve is in this to protect its 30% cut of sales. Its wh
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by zanny 8y ago
> maybe we establish an abstracted platform that they target and then each respective platform can support that? There is active and intentional hostility by many platforms to avoid this happening. Making cross platform development harde
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by zanny 8y ago
Beggars can't be choosers. There are way more people that want to write ethical freedom respecting code than there are people willing to pay for it. If I had an option to write Rust for a megacorp to fuck over customers or write C for
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by zanny 8y ago
The per-unit costs will be lower. The value of redeveloped land only goes up when its bought out to build density. If you currently live a mile out of the urban core in some sprawl mcmansion your house is probably worth 5 million right now
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by zanny 8y ago
There was plenty of forecasted doom and gloom in 2005-2006. It was still an extreme minority, as it is now, and when the next recession comes it will blindside most people all the same. Remember how many more don't have any savings and
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by zanny 8y ago
You make cities affordable by unrestricting building height way beyond the "projected" demand for residential construction in the core. Then as dense, cheap residential fills up you will see the natural build out of more of it. Ke
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by zanny 8y ago
Europe as a whole has a large mitigating factor in that there is really good public infrastructure buses and trains there. Sure, an hour commute a day isn't preferable but if you can spend it reading or watching netflix it impacts your
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by zanny 8y ago
So five years later you build more housing . We as a species are capable of building absurdly dense cities that are probably per-capita the cheapest place a person can live (since you cram so many into every skyscraper). We choose not to b
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by zanny 8y ago
I know its a troll comment but it really illustrates my point. Rust feels great when you know all the paradigms and complexity involved in writing Rust code because for a seasoned veteran it does everything sensible and right. But for your
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by zanny 8y ago
I think it goes beyond conservatism for most devs as to why you don't formally specify your design and its mostly rooted in why AGILE is so popular. The sooner you show a finished product, no matter how broken and incomplete, the soone
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by zanny 8y ago
If we could reduce the density of a person by about an order of magnitude we can start replicating bird flight on a per-person basis. Our approaches to flight are constrained in all forms by the desire to put really heavy things into the ai
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by zanny 8y ago
End user tasks might be able to be automated into dumb programming jobs, but companies have tried for decades to down-source their programming and it always falls flat on its face. Even if you have library support to hand hold your budget c
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by zanny 8y ago
There is absolutely no "shortcut" for cities to skimp on having sufficient transit infrastructure to get people where they need to go. If you underbuild, people drive cars. If you overcharge, people drive cars. If you restrict car
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by zanny 8y ago
> It is, and I just cannot kid myself into thinking that killing a tomato is less or more of an affront to God than killing a chicken. Just a reminder, fruiting plants make the fruit for animals to eat to spread their seeds. It doesn&#x2
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by zanny 8y ago
A portfolio of shipped code, preferably open source. No different than how an artist might have to jump through a lot of shit to get hired if they don't have a substantial show of work, but if they do, you are often fast tracked into e
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by zanny 8y ago
At least then it wouldn't be purely artificial. I'm not surprised at all that there are so many people "bad" at technical interviews when they are fundamentally designed to leave you a fish out of water. Nobody likes to
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by zanny 8y ago
It is a total failure of industry to ask people who are productively writing software one day to waste dozens of hours learning to dance an artificial interview game to get hired somewhere to start writing productive software again weeks la
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by zanny 8y ago
> Nobody deserves anything. I'm pretty sure doctors don't have to go get their high school bio textbooks and review cell structures to get hired at a new hospital. It is absolutely insulting to someone who can prove a substanti
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by zanny 8y ago
It is insulting to someone with tens of thousands of lines of public code in open source. You can work at a tech giant for half a decade and slip under the radar with no way to prove or disprove your competency there unless you can get re
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by zanny 8y ago
Absolutely this. The better question is, given several data sets, how would you approach traversing them. What is your intuition, and what are the limits of your awareness of how to approach the problem. That is actually informative on your
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by zanny 8y ago
If I had to write a fresh impl of BFS I for sure wouldn't just go off what my algorithms book said a decade ago. I'd reference how other languages and frameworks have implemented and matured the problem in actual deployment and us
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by zanny 8y ago
Its incredibly frustrating to be in a room with someone who will pop whatever random trivia they want at you and watch you struggle against artificial constraints to appease them. I'm loathing the potential need to ever eventually inte
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by zanny 8y ago
At least in my case I'd like to think I absorbed the habit of recognizing sub-optimal traversals of data (for example, yesterday I was writing a parallel iterator and made the intentional choice to "waste" effort duplicating
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by zanny 8y ago
If your first contact with a potential hire is asking them asinine pointless riddles meant to try to imbalance them you are going into the process with an adversarial relationship. Which is probably the root problem. Almost all tech hirin
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by zanny 8y ago
Nothing implicitly makes a government faster or slower than a corporation. Corporate charters are practically franchised private statehood where your voting public is your shareholders and they elect a board of directors to represent them.
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by zanny 8y ago
The difference is if you want to build it yourself there is an infinite amount of documentation on how to do it freely available. I'm pretty sure if you started on google with "how do I make my own website" you would end up w
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by zanny 8y ago
And we see time and time again how ineffectual the population is at getting people into a majority position of power to see the pop proposals of the day enacted. These direct democracy votes often turn out this way - the people vote on a to
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by zanny 8y ago
Even gamers don't need towers, games don't benefit much from anything > 4 cores and the only limiting factor so all you really need is a mini-itx motherboard, 8-16GB of ram, and a beefy GPU attached. There are plenty of consol

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