Markku

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by Markku 15y ago
Especially in this Ludum Dare case, development practices or implementation details do not matter as much as results. And he did get results. That's why it was interesting. I'd like to hear of what you think was wrong and why? This was his
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by Markku 15y ago
I learned some things too. However, even if you have a tiny piece of software, like a game that you can reliably complete manually in 20 minutes, completely playing it through after every change is way too slow for "live coding". You shoul
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by Markku 15y ago
This is really not a good example as games have (read should have) entity systems. See e.g. these two links for an introduction. http://t-machine.org/index.php/2007/09/03/entity-systems-are... http://www.purplepwny.com/blog/?p=215 There
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by Markku 15y ago
> >The main developer is very responsive and helpful. > Well, here I must concede a point. I have no idea how responsive the developers of Racket are, for I never had cause to contact them. They are very responsive and helpful a
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by Markku 15y ago
Thanks for the details! Here's what happens to me. Planning for a month. How detailed really? I would imagine that such a plan doesn't survive life. How do you cope with changes? I don't plan so much ahead now because other people influence
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by Markku 15y ago
I used numbers that are reality to me. Plug-in your own numbers for comparison. For a 10 minute commute today, I would have pitch in another 100K for living. My experience at the moment is working 5 years for same client/location on average
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by Markku 15y ago
A rough example. Moving closer costs 100K more, working for 200 days a year, less commuting provides 1.5 hours more time per day, same client (place of work) for five years. Cost of hour of free time is (/ 100000 200 1.5 5) = 66.7 units of
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by Markku 15y ago
Online banking is easy. But then it's easy to forget how much money you waste on said auto-paid bills every year. Sometimes it's good to have to work for something to realize maybe it's not necessary after all. I cut my magazine subscriptio
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by Markku 15y ago
I am thinking along the same lines. If something is not "policed", then it won't happen in the long run as interest shifts. Includes programming practices, testing coverage and the usual stuff. And more effective to automate such things and
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by Markku 15y ago
Can you give more examples of things you have automated and how they worked out? And what didn't?
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by Markku 15y ago
Yeah I sometimes get off the bus earlier and walk home to combine the two. I'm considering running sometime too but have to get the gear with me. And sometimes I walk home from a shop for the same exercise. In the winter I mostly slept/medi
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by Markku 15y ago
You seem to stay up quite late. Unsustainable for me. Also making and eating breakfast takes for me at least 30 minutes at the moment. Three years ago I had exactly the same 10 minute walk to work and then I did have more time available. Ho
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by Markku 15y ago
1) I don't work 10 hours every day, 8 hours twice a week at least. Like this I'm saving a couple hours every week to have some time off later. Year ago I was at -50 hours but now I'm at over +50 already. A small reserve is good. I never wor
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by Markku 15y ago
A simplified example day: 07:15-08 Wakeup, shower and breakfast 08-09 Commute+reading 09-19 At work, includes lunch and snack 19-20 Exercise 20-20:30 Grocery shopping 20:30-21:30 Commute+reading 21:30-22 Dinner 22-23:30 Ha
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by Markku 15y ago
I've been considering a 4 x 10 hours week. But really, commuting is impossible to avoid if you work in consulting, where your customer changes from time to time. You can't expect to move as often. My work used to be only 10 minute walk away
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by Markku 15y ago
After dumping my TV some years ago, there are still some problems with time. Working, commuting, exercising and eating seem to take about 15 hours in total. Now with 7-8 hours of sleep it leaves approximately 1 hour for hacking or time with
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by Markku 16y ago
Yes can be. My typical approach is to write down what I want to say in an as idiomatic way as I can. Then I go on to implement the notation that I have come up with. The code I write is usually very high-level code. It can be written like a
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by Markku 16y ago
Yes, Java is not elevated to great language status by the wealth of libraries. It gets the job done and it is possible to be productive with it, but many times you have to fight it. The language drags the libraries down in this case. In mos
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by Markku 16y ago
Yeah, I agree that good people can be successful with any tools, but I also think that good people with decent tools are even more successful. And good people will quickly see what is wrong and with what tools they can be expressive enough.
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by Markku 16y ago
If we consider libraries part of the language, then I would say yes. All lisp implementations lack something for someone. And a language with great libraries may appear to be higher than others in some perspective because they offer a set o
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by Markku 16y ago
To add some detail. Programming languages live and die by their libraries, i.e. vocabulary. The differences in grammar are in my opinion rather small, when we talk about how expressive a clever programmer can be. Can a person be even more e
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by Markku 16y ago
TLDR Person found out other people can be immensely productive with other languages. Then person learned languages X, Y and Z with cool libraries and is now very productive and happy using them. TLDR TLDR Libraries make a big difference!
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by Markku 16y ago
I could, if I considered the chance of receiving the big money positive. Or if you would be in such a need that it'd be charity :)
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by Markku 16y ago
My point is that I do not consider the net sum negative. It is so small that it is inconsequential to my life. It does not affect my finances whatsoever. Only hitting the jackpot would, and that would be a definite positive effect to me. Li
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by Markku 16y ago
I spend a tiny amount on lottery every week (almost minimum). The reasoning is like this: - If I never win, there is no practical loss (total spent sum too low) - If I win the jackpot, it's life changing - If I never play, life neve