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by freshhawk 3y ago
When your job depends on it you tend to work really hard at believing that advertising is necessary and actually it's good, actually actually relevant ads are helpful! After all, if it wasn't then what am I doing with my life?
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by freshhawk 3y ago
Only in theory, with branching factors of 32, they are not remotely equivalent unless you have a supercomputer counting atoms in a universe or something.
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by freshhawk 3y ago
Useful to specify that it is log32N, not log2N since that makes an enormous different in practice. Also, if you care about that then you can use transients (if no one knows you mutated the data structure then it still counts as immutable) o
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by freshhawk 4y ago
Why didn't it work? Paizo had a big jump in sales ... for Paizo, the numbers are a rounding error for WotC. Same with the DnDBeyond boycott drive, did that actually make a dent? To me there is basically no evidence for this supposed le
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by freshhawk 4y ago
It might be that they are out of touch but there is another very sensible reason for all this. They view D&D as extremely under-monetized (pretty reasonable, they don't make much off each player on average) and they have a huge i
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by freshhawk 4y ago
This is a segment of geek culture that has all sorts of ego/identity stuff tied up with these brands. So when they don't "act properly" it feels like it reflects on them and they take it personally. That's the downs
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by freshhawk 4y ago
I honestly don't understand it completely, but there are a lot of casual players who will not even read the rules intro in the players handbook, and will play for a long time without ever learning how their character works. They don&#x
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by freshhawk 4y ago
WotC owns or controls all the places those creators sell their stuff. So they definitely have the economic means to force creators to abandon the old license. They will also probbaly just threaten people with their odd legal interpretation
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by freshhawk 4y ago
They are going to "revoke" that license in the way that you will no longer be able to sell content with that license in the stores they control (which are all of the ones that matter).
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by freshhawk 4y ago
In practice it's much harder to avoid. Especially with the new players driving all the recent growth. The brand is so dominant that in any group most of the players will play D&D or they will not play. If you don't have the br
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by freshhawk 4y ago
Yes? The entire industry is obsessed with onboarding and first-experience ease and intuitive interfaces and making things "just work", etc, etc. This includes Linux, which still has rough edges but the approach of just making thin
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by freshhawk 4y ago
They aren't automatically more capable, it's just a well known and frequently noticed fact that Clojure tends to attract more senior developers, and the community is very senior dev heavy compared to other language communities. So
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by freshhawk 4y ago
I have basically the same experience doing cljs dev that I do with clj dev, when it comes to being REPL-driven. I know that the setup for cljs is a bit more involved and things will break sometimes (putting a browser in the loop will do tha
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by freshhawk 4y ago
It is a very weird unexpected artifact of Clojure being so focused on backwards compatibility. People finish excellent libraries and because they don't need to constantly update them because they still work perfectly ... the vanity met
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by freshhawk 4y ago
> I'm explaining to you why Clojure won't reach mass adoption I don't think you need to explain that, it's a conservative ecosystem for experienced devs, that was the target niche it was always aiming for. It's i
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by freshhawk 4y ago
This is why it's a bad idea to evaluate software technologies entirely by what shows up in the social media hype cycle news. The only metric you learn from that is "what's the new fad that I can get attention by writing about
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by freshhawk 4y ago
I did learn Clojure on my own, and the first time I shipped Clojure was doing some contract work with some other clojurists I met at a meetup. As for breaking in, I'd suggest meeting some other developers if you can, small industries h
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by freshhawk 4y ago
Don't forget your phone is much more deeply tied to your identity through your cell company contract and the OS account information is more likely to be closely tied to your identity. It's also much rarer for someone to have multi
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by freshhawk 4y ago
I've chosen to specialize in Clojure and it hasn't been difficult at all, in fact in a lot of ways it has been easier. I was already a senior dev when I started with Clojure, but having Clojure experience on top of that has made m
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by freshhawk 4y ago
I love my UHK too but the trackpoint is pretty disappointing, even after you mess with the movement settings to make it slightly less janky. The thumb modules are a huge drop in build quality compared to the excellent keyboard.
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by freshhawk 4y ago
It seems to come down to different views on what this means. Some people want leadership who will listen to user demands and apply pressure to the community to push them to work on things in those directions. Clojure has more leadership alo
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by freshhawk 4y ago
They will absolutely study the use of sound bites/memes like this one in political discussions though. The "but that's definitely untrue", "yeah, ok, but ... you know what I mean, right?" type comments build a
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by freshhawk 4y ago
Murdoch's international scope and relatively ruthless and firm handed narrative control.
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by freshhawk 4y ago
Elite overproduction does seem a much more sensible focus here. If you want to blame the internet, then the obvious path is the "shared story" angle. There was a single mainstream dominant narrative for a while, but it couldn&#x27
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by freshhawk 4y ago
I think the clojure syntax, with those symbols differentiated, is a pretty great choice. The choice of default meanings is good too, lists/application, indexed sequences and k/v mappings are useful widely used primitive constructs
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by freshhawk 4y ago
It doesn't need to be this complicated. Unless you want to efficiently re-render the minimal amount when something changes, which you probably do if you have a big UI and want your users to like using it. If you're trying to wri
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by freshhawk 5y ago
> I like this attitude: "I let him know I'm here as a resource, I'm not an activist, I'm not trying to be a pain in his ass," You like it? That's just a smart, well spoken way to show subservience. "I&#
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by freshhawk 5y ago
I guess my main question here is: why will it be so close to the real experience? Why wouldn't everyone make it the most engaging virtual car driving experience they can find, what incentive is there to make it "real" in this
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by freshhawk 5y ago
I think everyone has gotten used to this particular lie, because it's so widespread and all the "privacy" email providers say things like this. Except maybe Lavabit, that guy apparently shut everything down to avoid doing som
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by freshhawk 5y ago
Hushmail had a similar warrant, they changed their login form so it would send the password in the clear to the server, which they used to decrypt the mail and logged all the traffic to help trace the user. If you get targeted these "a

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