5hoom

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by 5hoom 12y ago
Fair enough, good answer :)
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by 5hoom 12y ago
Yeah it kind of feels dirty having all these mutable variables around after doing any functional programming at all. I've found using const a lot also goes hand-in-hand with raii. If a member of a class is const it must be initialized
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by 5hoom 12y ago
I'm always looking for a legitimate excuse to use a goto in my C++ code because I'm perverse. It's very rare to find one but this looks like it might be okay.
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by 5hoom 12y ago
That's one thing I've noticed with my C++ code lately is that I'm writing const absolutely everywhere. Having mutability where you need it is awesome but it is interesting to see languages like Rust where immutability is the
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by 5hoom 12y ago
It's an interesting time for native development with all these languages making some serious attempts to dethrone C++ when in comes to combining high/low level in one language. I'm still using C++ myself until the dust settle
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by 5hoom 12y ago
What problems have you found trying to write memory safe code? It seems to me that you barely have to think about memory ownership anymore ever since unique_ptr and shared_ptr came along.
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by 5hoom 12y ago
It's all very interesting if true. I've always wondered why some people just seem to get nauseous so quickly when interacting in 3d environments. In my anecdotal experience I've found adjusting things like depth-of-field of t
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by 5hoom 12y ago
Exploring the reasons as to why some people suffer more severely from simulator sickness than others is very interesting and relevant. It would be great to see more research into this problem but I really don't see the need to push the
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by 5hoom 14y ago
I've suffered pretty severe depression and anxiety for most of my adult life. While the idea that we should all just grow a thicker skin and 'just deal with it' is both understandable and practical given the nature of the internet - it just
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by 5hoom 14y ago
Very well said. Articles like this reduce games to some grey, by the numbers marketing exercise. The reason so many games on the app store sink like a rock is because they just plain aren't enjoyable experiences and treat their players very
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by 5hoom 14y ago
I can't recall if it required a cheat or not (secret stuff didn't show up on the map by default), but you could absolutely see every entity in the level from the map screen. This included enemies, projectiles, powerups, bullet sparks and as
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by 5hoom 14y ago
The games that do float to the top tend to be reasonably solid (or at the very least they do what they say on the tin) but even then a lot of them just aren't that great. It just seems like a lot of mobile game developers have resigned them
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by 5hoom 14y ago
Thanks for the kind wishes, and yeah it's something I feel pretty strongly about. There are obvious problems going this way (how do you get people past the hurdle of paying for a game they haven't played?) but it just feels... better. It al
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by 5hoom 14y ago
Wonderfully put. As a developer working hard on an iOS game I feel exactly the same way. Back in the day loading a video game was a very private, safe almost sacred experience. The world melts away and it's just you in the fantasy world the
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by 5hoom 14y ago
While I agree that there is less and less reason to use XP these days, age alone is a pretty terrible way to judge the merits of an OS. How old is Linux now?
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by 5hoom 14y ago
Your story rings true for me. I dabbled in programming in my teens, but like you I was a hobbyist at best. When things got tough I would just give up. Programming seemed really hard and I just couldn't figure out how people who did it knew
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by 5hoom 14y ago
That's a cool idea, but how would you prove you came up with an invention independently if the patented device/software is already out there?
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Maybe not. But any of the seven billion humans could do a startup.
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by 5hoom 15y ago
People (still) want to discuss complex issues that effect their career and everyday life. Get over it.
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by 5hoom 15y ago
I don't think the onus is on Apple to suggest how Samsung could design a good alternative tablet.
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Oh come on. I realise this is an unfortunate accident and people may ask hard or even unfair questions about how prepared the crew were, but blaming the people minding their own business in their home for "building a house in the firing lin
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by 5hoom 15y ago
What on earth are you talking about? Parent was making some general observations about the nature of sexism in the tech industry and its causes. How did you get from that to this 'you're not a real techie' nonsense and jocks beating up nerd
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Safari with adblock and ghostery here, got 8 correct and 18 false positives.
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Notch is no longer lead developer on Minecraft(notch.tumblr.com)
156 points by 5hoom 15y ago|42 comments
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by 5hoom 15y ago
I followed your link and could not find any studies cited in the article that back up the claims made (not saying there aren't any, just that I couldn't find any in the article). Most of it hinges on a self reported survey conducted once in
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by 5hoom 15y ago
NSW, Australia.
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by 5hoom 15y ago
That's an argument for including Actionscript in the list. That way a beginner might know the following: "This language has a niche in which it is great" "This language has a niche outside of which I would not use it" "I enjoy playing with
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by 5hoom 15y ago
This is a really baffling thing to quote (and even more baffling that it has been voted up). Alcoholism is a frigging nightmare for everyone involved, irrespective of culture, and here you are regurgitating some PR nonsense written by an al
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by 5hoom 15y ago
As mentioned by another comment look at the Assassins Creed games to see how an interactive history lesson might look. However it sounds like you are waiting for games that are "Reality++" before you can see a use for the medium as a teachi
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Spent a few months making a (poorly conceived) "lifestyle" app, sold one copy to a user in Egypt. Total profit -$98, Many lessons learned ;)

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