WhyNott

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by WhyNott 5y ago
I mean, that does not contradict at all what OP is saying. /s
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by WhyNott 5y ago
Or maybe he has an interesting theory he understands deeply, and think its valuable to show how this theory can give insight to the problem in question. Why be so cynical?
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by WhyNott 6y ago
To be fair, "law doesn't work backwards" is an estabilished legal principle.
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by WhyNott 6y ago
Surely the right lesson to take would be to try something like posting links several times? To paraphrase, even if success always comes from accident, there are always ways to make yourself more accident-prone.
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by WhyNott 6y ago
Have you ever seen the way modern AAA video games are made? I have a feeling they are really the product of our time (large amounts of money, poor labour laws, etc), and we are not going to see anything of a similar scope before or after fo
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by WhyNott 6y ago
There is a specific reason to say it: 98% of polish population belong to a single ethic group, and even of the remaining 2% the vast majority are what most people would consider to be "white". Non-white people tend to be very rare
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by WhyNott 6y ago
I don't think I've ever seen a map that places United States in the center. Is that really a thing?
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by WhyNott 6y ago
Are you sure about this? I've heard the quote applied specifically in the context of RAII, where he complained that there is no such thing as a generalized "resource", and that the same mechanism for handling memory access sh
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by WhyNott 6y ago
...Except that he did talk about all of his games almost from the get go? He showed earliest prototypes of Braid and Witness publicaly when the games were just blocky protypes, in the latter case good 7 years before the game came out. I don
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by WhyNott 6y ago
I feel like this is an example of what Jonathan Blow calls a "Big Idea" or a "100% solution". His thesis is that when you make a feature of a language too abstract and usable in many different contexts, eventually there
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by WhyNott 6y ago
Thank you a lot for your comment! I could tell from the tone of the article that the person writing it was clearly biased, but I didn't realize how far they have stretched their narrarive.
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by WhyNott 6y ago
Actually, you are wrong (or maybe you just haven't made it clear, so I'll spell it out here). * * is not intended to stand for "kurwa mać", it stands for "jebać pis". Its a reference to a political comic
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by WhyNott 6y ago
So I searched and I found that my library has a book with this exact title, but by a guy named Shyamalendu Kandar. I've read the introduction and the preface, and nothing suggests it has any direct influence or relation to the book you
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by WhyNott 7y ago
FYI, a fusion between prolog and haskell already exists: its called mercury. Its a statically compiled language with decent performance characteristics (at least, in its category).