buzzybee

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by buzzybee 9y ago
RemObjects is not unknown. You're just new.
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by buzzybee 9y ago
FizzleFade is also found in Microprose games from the era (e.g. Railroad Tycoon, Civilization), sometimes in full-screen transitions and other times to fade in single sprites. But more relevantly to "id software history", you can
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by buzzybee 9y ago
It enables the coder to engage in some late binding without engaging in a lot of casts or more elaborate metaprogramming: the enum index used for assignment is itself an assignable value and therefore can be passed around and manipulated if
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by buzzybee 9y ago
My strategy for personal coding recently has shifted towards a sincere exploitation of automatic programming(in a manner similar to model-driven development or language-oriented programming, or the research of VPRI). The overall feedback lo
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by buzzybee 9y ago
I do microwave the sponge after use, for about 2 minutes so that it's bone dry. The reasoning is simple: most of the bacteria are going to hang out in the water. It's still going to be infected, but it doesn't have to be dis
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by buzzybee 9y ago
The longest possible chess game: https://www.chess.com/blog/kurtgodden/the-longest-possible-c... Chess AIs, perhaps needless to say, are very good at computing at the depth necessary to win drawn-out endgames.
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by buzzybee 9y ago
IME real users don't care about the app being aesthetically different, but they do care if the common idioms have changed(e.g. position of OK/Cancel). That shouldn't depend on your toolkit, though.
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by buzzybee 9y ago
Some time ago someone recommended SpeedCrunch to me for calculator stuff and I use it all the time now. It's a little bit less intuitive since it takes a syntax instead of presenting buttons, but it does a ton more.
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by buzzybee 9y ago
Worse-is-better: we already "solved" it with altcoins.
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by buzzybee 9y ago
Regarding smart contracts and other inventions of cryptocurrency: I think, most of all, the crypto market is absolutely vicious, in a way that both capital markets and technology companies haven't seen(in the public eye) for many, many
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by buzzybee 9y ago
This is not a valid argument when the line in question is dealing entirely with abstract constructs(which it is) and all of the variables are function-local, declared on the very same screen, and several of them exist as aliases for more co
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by buzzybee 9y ago
I've been on the "sleep on exercise mat with some blankets" train for years, but a few months back, stepped it up by eliminating pillows. I still gravitate towards getting something under my head, but it turns out that I only
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by buzzybee 9y ago
The core is so important. Core + breathing exercises will improve any other activity.
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by buzzybee 9y ago
Contrast with FPC's compiler mode pragmas for different dialects. [0] FPC shows the effects of this story in the long term: there are several major divergences in behavior supported by the modes, and some individual features can be tog
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by buzzybee 9y ago
Here's an easy challenge: Ask the overengineer to solve problems without introducing any new classes or functions. This starves the overengineer of oxygen, reducing their abstraction options to "loop", "branch", and
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by buzzybee 9y ago
I've been musing about these sorts of issues of "what is really complex" lately, too. I started evaluating new languages for low-level application code again after spending a lot of time overly close to web browsers, and then
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by buzzybee 9y ago
When the paper was written, the jury was still definitely out on good concurrency practices for applications: the computing world(apart from mainframes, which of course had learned every lesson 30 years earlier, but nobody paid much attenti
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by buzzybee 9y ago
I'm seeing it as a feedback loop problem, again. Managers and stakeholders have an easy time remarking on surfaced progress. The developer has to think and communicate everything else. Going purely hands-off doesn't work, because
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by buzzybee 9y ago
You wouldn't be alone as a philosopher-developer, there are a decent number of us out there. However - shipping code is often very organic, cultivated stuff which foils attempts to establish a coherent philosophy, a through-line of &qu
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by buzzybee 9y ago
I followed Carmack's suggestion and never looked back. I write simpler code on average now, and I spend less time having to re-read it too because I'm changing the same lines less often. What I lose in terseness in the short-term,
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by buzzybee 9y ago
What tends to happen as you refactor bad code is that you gain some intuition about the way the code needs to flow. The longer you spend grinding away at the existing code, the more likely it is that rewriting it will work, because you&#x27
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by buzzybee 9y ago
I went through something like this. What your emotions are getting conflicted on is the idea of learning your real limitations. Because, despite appearances of competence and opportunity, you've surely got flaws that would prevent yo
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by buzzybee 9y ago
Nope. Replaced by WASM within 5.
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by buzzybee 9y ago
Real-time video composites were achieved on analog hardware such as Scanimate [0] starting around the 1970's; traditional film matte techniques [1] had also been used for well over a generation by that point and a travelling matte woul
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by buzzybee 9y ago
Check the bitcointalk forums. There are lots of altcoin announcement threads. Most are absolute drek and not worth your time, and most of the comments are people deceiving others or themselves by engaging in pumping/bashing. I scanned
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by buzzybee 9y ago
It's not purely the sampling that's doing it to Hollywood: In some fashion, it's the heavily-derisked blockbuster formula to blame, and technology comes along for the ride. Tony Zhou's Every Frame A Painting [0] offered
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by buzzybee 9y ago
I gave up on Amazon the other day. What did it? The "accidental" signup for Prime. They have a multi-year track record of doing this to people, some of whom can't afford it. I rarely need to get anything from them. So I cance
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by buzzybee 9y ago
You may want to try out RapidComposer, Sundog Song Studio, or Odesi to get a sense of what that workflow entails right now. I bought each of those (two of them on sales), hoping I would come to terms with them, but they just don't work
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by buzzybee 9y ago
It's only helpful if it adds something to the feedback loop. That's what an organization and its projects need at every stage: healthy feedback. If it's too far into fantasy, it gets forgotten and replaced with something more
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by buzzybee 9y ago
AutoHotKey? In some respects I think the apparent lack of automation in GUI comes down to the methods by which it's accomplished feeling too crude to take seriously. Even ordinary "power user" apps like Excel are so in-depth

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