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by chapliboy 1y ago
I thought it was very interesting about how Alan Kay and Bjarne Stroustrup may have been applying wisdom from their old fields of expertise and how that affected their philosophy. There is an appeal to building complexity through Emergence,
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by chapliboy 1y ago
I am always fascinated by the kind of tech that Bret Victor works on. While I can grasp a lot of the things and how to apply them from his previous work (like 'Stop Drawing Dead Fish' etc) this newest stuff is beyond my understand
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by chapliboy 2y ago
I finally read Count of Monte Cristo (unabridged) Fully worth the hype. Also read a lot of Arabian fantasy (?). Fantasy with djinn etc. Favourites were Master of Djinn and the City of Brass series.
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by chapliboy 2y ago
What do you think about other forms of cellular automata? I came across excitable media recently and found it fascinating. Do you have any other examples of cellular automata you found interesting or worth pursuing?
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by chapliboy 3y ago
I have an fairly underpowered phone (Samsung Galaxy M01 Core). I got it mostly because it's the size that I like. I also use most sites in browser as opposed to app. It turns out a lot of these sites and services are a lot less addicti
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by chapliboy 3y ago
This is an interesting idea. The way I see it, there is a lot of really high quality content that does rise to the top of YouTube. But also the feed has a lot of recency bias. So a great creator who puts out things once every many months, e
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by chapliboy 3y ago
I love the qoi format. I mostly adopted it for the wasm context. While porting to wasm, using something like stb_image became a little complicated, so I wrote a png-qoi converter, and then use the qoi assets in the game. Writing a qoi decod
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by chapliboy 4y ago
Don't listen to fighter-pilots stuck in busses. That's such an easy thing to do as a product. All the comments you see are all clamouring for some set of features that will just complicate everything. Yet a majority of the users h
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by chapliboy 4y ago
The job of a programmer, in a business context especially, is to take real-world requirements, and convert them into clearly defined systems where they can be solved / reasoned with. I once had a manager telling me what needed to be do
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by chapliboy 4y ago
I can only speak from personal experience (and second hand I guess). There is close to no 996 really. Most Indian tech startups are trying to emulate the FAANG style of work, both good and bad. So that means officially there is an 8 hour a
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by chapliboy 4y ago
I interviewed for Zerodha a few years ago. They really did have quite an easy going attitude. Their tech team is really well shielded from the rest of the organisation and the CEO and CTO both recognise the value of this. It was one of two
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by chapliboy 4y ago
The author says it took about 6 months to thoroughly go through the book and examples. This is really useful in setting expectations.
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by chapliboy 4y ago
That's really funny. I wonder if the humour is intentional. Could we similarly make it convince us that it is not a dog (or any other animal/thing). That would be interesting
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by chapliboy 4y ago
The first thing I thought about was Erlang and the BEAM VM as well.
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by chapliboy 4y ago
I think one of the hardest parts of procedural generation is curation. Finding the interesting results and then somehow highlighting them. Your approach of having both the curated galleries as well as an interactive version is really nice.
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by chapliboy 4y ago
I guess that's another way to go about it. I don't know how git deals with reindenting, refactoring etc, and you might lose context, but you could probably find it again. It's kinda nice having it right there in the code thou
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by chapliboy 4y ago
The game looks stunning, and I'm happy about the direction they have chosen graphically. What I am most excited about is what new game design and mechanics we might get to see. I'm hoping it will be more than raw point and click,
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by chapliboy 4y ago
I was hoping it would be Stephen's Sausauge Roll.
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by chapliboy 4y ago
Right now, I just use TODO along with a description. But the thing that has helped me and my teams most is adding a date and a name to each todo. For example, // TODO (03 May 2022 chap): This can be optimised. The date really help
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What I learnt when I was supposed to be learning how to surf(mulki.samhattangady.com)
2 points by chapliboy 5y ago|0 comments
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by chapliboy 5y ago
I use comments to break up a large block of code into smaller chunks to explain what is happening / where we are in the process. I used to be a firm believer in self documenting code, but that approach often led to a large number of fu
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Adventures in Adding Responsiveness to a Web App(chapliboy.com)
1 points by chapliboy 7y ago|0 comments
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by chapliboy 7y ago
It's interesting to consider that people who look for a feeling of one-ness with the world can find it through Mathematics or through religion, even though they are considered almost diametrically opposite approaches to understand the
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by chapliboy 7y ago
I am stuck in the same loop of trying to find the best way to organise my thoughts. My best attempt was using Dropbox Paper. They have a great editing/writing experience, but eventually it got to a stage where the page load times took
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by chapliboy 7y ago
Optimising for quick feedback loops. Basically it involved writing additional code to set up the app state to the state I need. It went from changing a line of code, running the app, clicking/filling fields as needed, and then seeing t