Tehdasi

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by Tehdasi 2y ago
Hmm, but the problem with having in-memory objects rather than a db is you end up having to replicate alot of the features of a relational database to get a usable system. And adding all these extra features you want from those dbs end up m
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by Tehdasi 3y ago
> They then claim that pure "Scrum" or "Agile" has never been implemented anywhere. They are right, however the conclusion that should be drawn from this is that the most likely outcome of your organisations implement
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by Tehdasi 3y ago
Basically, yes. A shader is basically a function which passes in the x,y coords and spits out a color, and this is done for every pixel on the screen. So a simple shader would be something like (in pseudo code): function shader( x, y ) {
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by Tehdasi 3y ago
I dunno about the GP, but it's a JPL guideline to never use dynamic allocation after initialization. So it's not unthinkable. I'd suspect that many microcontroller programs might have to be really careful about using the heap
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by Tehdasi 3y ago
That's the punchline, nobody knows what it does or why it was needed.
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by Tehdasi 3y ago
Never specifically heard about this terminology until now, but after looking, yeah, I can see why ppl prefer 'artificial' keys to natural ones. From the animal shelter example, for people it uses email as the 'natural' k
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by Tehdasi 3y ago
"The software serves the business' bottom line period." Making big assumptions about what the software project here. Given the article was mostly complaining about software developed for developers by developers, I don't
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by Tehdasi 3y ago
> Agreed. Tweaks: I don't think C++ is going to be relevant for much longer, Rust solves the problem space better. I would say that in the domain of game development C++ (which is where I'm guessing that most new C++ developmen
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by Tehdasi 3y ago
I'm sure in every educational system you can use some form of metric to exclude low SES students and conclude that the system isn't behind or failing.
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by Tehdasi 4y ago
> Rules are rules are rules, and they must be followed, Contra, "rules" are only effective when they are enforced, and when push comes to shove, most of the keepers of the rules will just discard them when it gets in the way of
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by Tehdasi 4y ago
> Even they will carve out some niche and pretend (even to themselves) to be doing useful work. ... You'll find the odd developer that's maintaining some internal app by themselves. In my experience, internal apps need far more
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by Tehdasi 4y ago
Tangentially related, but I remember reading years ago a piece from a graphics driver developer (nvidia maybe?) that one of the reasons why the opengl driver was slower than their directx driver (I believe) was that the structure of OpenGL
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by Tehdasi 4y ago
> And they value engagement over content quality, which is the entire reason comment-tree/vote-based systems have been pushed heavily over web-1.0 threaded forum discussions as well. While they certainly do value engagement over qua
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by Tehdasi 4y ago
"Ofc and I left France the day I realized it was impossible. Not because of the high roller bankers but because the people literally cannot accept a balanced budget to live within our means." https://tradingeconomics.co
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by Tehdasi 4y ago
Still has the issue with screwing up mechanical objects. In their demo checkout the wheels on the skateboards, all over the place.
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by Tehdasi 5y ago
The reverse is also quite true. You can get a thing which just seems too slow/fiddly/buggy/etc, but it's in an area where you are unfamiliar with, so you pass it off as just your misunderstanding of the thing. Whenever y
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by Tehdasi 5y ago
Another one: Boat stands for Bust Out Another Thousand.
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by Tehdasi 5y ago
"In the early days DSE was like Jaycar." Not that surprising. The origin story of Jaycar is that when DSE was being sold to Woolworths DS took aside an exec at DSE and said that Woolworths were going to run DSE into the ground. He
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by Tehdasi 5y ago
Should be noted that for Portal it didn't even have a narrative really, just a games long monologue. It was closer to Notes from the Underground than most game narratives.
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by Tehdasi 5y ago
"The net worth of that group ranges from about $1.2 million to $20 million per household, Stewarts says." In Australia apparently all you have to do to get into this group would be to actually own a paid off house. :/ I think
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by Tehdasi 5y ago
> I wouldn't recommend anyone choose C as a language for new software Unless you are doing firmware where all those constraints are still around, and you have to deal with whatever compiler the vendor supplies for their microcontrol
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by Tehdasi 5y ago
Of course, those are two prime characteristics you want in a tax haven. You want it to have rule of law since you don't want your money/assets/secrets expropriated or exposed, and you don't want a new regime to come in
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by Tehdasi 5y ago
Obligatory comment about how an operating system is "system software that manages computer hardware, software resources, and provides common services for computer programs" and not just a program that executes at startup.
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by Tehdasi 5y ago
So basically it's 90+% of debt for housing (scroll down to the pie chart): https://www.finder.com.au/australias-personal-debt-reported-... I'm including 'Investment debt' cause who are we kidding? It&#x2
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by Tehdasi 5y ago
Well it would be nice to have a no-code solution that elegantly can be moved into a coded solution, but I suspect that a company that makes no-code software has little incentive to help ppl stop using no-code.
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by Tehdasi 5y ago
> There is no one enjoying ill-gotten gains here. Well if it's found that the construction/design of the building is at fault, then it will be the developers.
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by Tehdasi 5y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/17/technology/apple-tax-bill... Not for individuals, but when you are a high net worth individual, it's all the same.
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by Tehdasi 6y ago
In one of the states of Australia, there is a law that mentions someone by name: http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/bill/cab2014300/ Was done as a stopgap just to make sure that it was impos
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by Tehdasi 6y ago
For Advent of Code, you lose a minute of time for every wrong answer. Also in most how-to-leaderboard guides it's heavily noted that making mistakes (ie. bugs) is going to cost you the most times (anecdotally, I'd agree with this
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by Tehdasi 6y ago
Also, for any given title, ppl on HN will come up with anecdata to support it's assertion.

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