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by ccvannorman 26d ago
I thought this was going to be about a marketing success example for Aspirin! ... Although, I guess in a roundabout way it was.
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by ccvannorman 1mo ago
We're (re) building MathBreakers.com, a math game sandbox/platform. It's built on Node/PlayCanvas and is a full 3D game engine including our unique math-based primitives and triggers/cinematic system (similar to Unr
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by ccvannorman 1mo ago
My AI recommended that a chuckle at this comment would be a great balance of engagement, humor and foresight. chuckle
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by ccvannorman 2mo ago
This was very helpful. Thanks
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by ccvannorman 3mo ago
yes but it's an optional limited edition run
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by ccvannorman 3mo ago
MathBreakers, Your Limitless Math Universe. It's a math game platform teaching fundamental grade school concepts like Fractions in an immersive 3D world with virtual manipulatives (no equations or worksheets). Re-reading the Lean Start
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by ccvannorman 3mo ago
This is cool. Sent you a connection request on LinkedIn :)
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by ccvannorman 3mo ago
Posting a level 3 meme comment? Straight to list.
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by ccvannorman 4mo ago
I looked at all linked articles and could not find an example of the points (they show a square grid of points with n~=100 but no other ordering of points to show the more optimal layout(s)). Is there anywhere an image example of a superior
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by ccvannorman 6mo ago
you'd better be careful wth your typos, as well
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by ccvannorman 7mo ago
took me a few reads but this is indeed correct (lol)
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by ccvannorman 7mo ago
I just finished an implementation of CI across three codebases totalling >50k lines and I can confirm a lot of the author's pain points, especially around logging and YAML variables. Commit with one character YAML difference? Check.
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by ccvannorman 8mo ago
We use them on our cats and have found the trouble-maker cat 3 times out of 3 when needed (in an urban apartment area; most recently the cat was scared by a noise which may have kept her hidden out all night in the cold, unless we had found
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by ccvannorman 9mo ago
By your reasoning, Putin invading the US and kidnapping President Trump for his crimes is equally valid
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by ccvannorman 9mo ago
I would personally pay $2x market price for a Phone, Computer, Tablet that guaranteed privacy (via whatever technical means necessary) for all my interactions with the internet. Is that so much to ask? Could the next "Apple" produ
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by ccvannorman 11mo ago
I can't help myself and surely someone else has already done the same. But the query obj.friends.filter(x=>{ return x.city=='New York'}) .sort((a, b) => a.age - b.age) .map(item => ({ name: item.name, age: it
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by ccvannorman 11mo ago
they'll take apart this criminal empire brick by brick
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by ccvannorman 1y ago
That is also not enough. An agent could build an application that functions, but you also need to have a well-designed underlying architecture if you want the application to be extensible and maintainable - something the original dreamer ma
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by ccvannorman 1y ago
I joined a company with 20k lines of Next/React generated in 1 month. I spent over a week rewriting many parts of the application (mostly the data model and duplicated/conflicting functionality). At first I was frustrated but my b
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by ccvannorman 1y ago
https://archive.is/YPsAk
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by ccvannorman 1y ago
Yes, better prompting is absolutely essential, and I still love to let Claude do the heavy lifting when it comes to syntax and framing. But in trying to re-write the data model for this app, Claude continually failed to execute due to promp
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by ccvannorman 1y ago
As someone who walked into 20k+ loc React/Next project, 95%+ vibecoded, I can say it's a relative nightmare to untangle the snarl of AI generated solutions. Particularly it is bad at separation of concerns and commingling the data
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by ccvannorman 1y ago
finally, my vim window can hold 200+ lines on my laptop screen!
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by ccvannorman 1y ago
I absolutely love this question. Postulate: You cannot define a largest physically describable number. My assumption is that due to the very nature of Kolmogorov complexity (and other Godel related / halting problem related / self
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by ccvannorman 1y ago
got hit with a pop-up that said my device had a virus halfway through this otherwise interesting read. Good luck
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by ccvannorman 1y ago
Some things never change. Yes, technology is the way we circumvent effort to deliver results (e.g. to live longer, healthier, and with less pain/fear.) Yes, our civilization rewards and encourages short circuiting effort, depriving us
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by ccvannorman 1y ago
Yes. The best analogy I can make is actually surprisingly from a book about romantic love, "Undefended Love" [0] where the PhD psychology author goes on to make this critical point: We often set ourselves up for failure (e.g. nega
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by ccvannorman 1y ago
using my default browser (brave) and pressing "enter" (doing a search) did not do anything. The page just sits there. apparently, I need to make a selection of a search engine to use this. I would not use this as a replacement for
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by ccvannorman 1y ago
Mathbreakers 2 ( https://mathbreakers.com ) A 3D game to help students in grades 5-8 learn Arithmentic, Fractions, Geometry, and Algebra. 50% or more of middle school students experience math anxiety, and it's no wonder that
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by ccvannorman 1y ago
Game dev here, building a game using the "engine-only" version of PlayCanvas (a 3d engine). Asset loading, rendering, physics, object management, update loops, raycasting is all handled by the engine (js). My code is everything el

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