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by frownie 11y ago
>> Specifically, if you have a team that doesn't communicate effectively on a daily basis, I concur. My people don't communicate very well and have no real team spirit. The stand up meeting helps to alleaviate that. Of cours
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by frownie 11y ago
If you need unicode (i.e. your app will take more langauges than english and spend a lot of time on that (hint! GUI hint!), the 3 is the way to go. Unicode support is so much better... For the rest, it depends on the libraries you need...
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by frownie 11y ago
From the FAQ : Multi-language support: Bazel supports Java, Objective-C and C++ out of the box, and can be extended to support arbitrary programming languages. c'mon, not even the Go language from Google itself ?
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by frownie 11y ago
I have a fairly large code base (80K LOC). When the size grows, lack of typing can become a problem. 95% percent of the time, the code is explicit enough. However, when you end up with meta code, then it can become really difficult to track
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by frownie 12y ago
>> Taxes are paid out of those new dollars Interestingly, here in Belgium, the press often states that Google pay his taxes as requested by the law. And that Google have some very expert accountant who read the law in suach a way that
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by frownie 12y ago
I concur. When hiring with these kinds of small problems, you actually see a lot . First, in my case, it sorts programmers from not-programmers (it's in the 50% ballpark). Then with a problem a bit harder, it helps sort "programm
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by frownie 12y ago
That's very vicious PR to me. By acknowledging some guys thre were hacked too, they implicitely say that : "we're in the same boat, anthema and their customers, we'll fight together". Which, at least for me, is comp
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by frownie 12y ago
Amen. As a "hacker", I think a lot, all of the time. So I cook to think about something else. Washing the dishes without dishwasher is also a moment where I let my mind wander. Definitely not some time lost (to be honest I don&#x2
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by frownie 12y ago
I've looked at the zommable picture. When I zoomed to the maximum, I saw a lot of noise in the picture (and a arather regular one). Does it mean that although the resolution is pretty impressive, the noise make it less "useful&quo
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by frownie 12y ago
If I can judge from my child and his friends, I can tell you the angry birs brand is just massively popular and that the lack of story is absolutely irrelevant to them (they just care about levels, birds' powers, things they win, etc
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by frownie 12y ago
what if there is water condensating on the panel ? what if the panel is not perfectly oriented towards the sun ? (dunno, just asking)
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by frownie 12y ago
Geek's dream... First, instead of providing tools, one could help people to develop taste. Many accept overcooked chicken or fish because they just catch the spices flavours. They can't judge what a well cooked dish is. Dry chicke
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by frownie 12y ago
Not to sound smart ass but I got that in 1996 when I was fortunate enough to have a course on Scheme by D. Ribbens here at Liege University in Belgium. He showed us how to build that very interpreter and how powerful it was (he used to say
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by frownie 12y ago
I concur. PySide makes developement/prototyping really efficient : the code is easy to read, no build system to maintain, no heavy tools to run, portability makes life so much better, you can freeze applications => deployment is s
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by frownie 12y ago
is it me or the algorithm suggested at the end degenerates if the rectangles are organized as the steps of a stair and each of them extends to the rightmost position ? In that case it degenerates because the heap manipulation degenerates...
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by frownie 12y ago
Oh please... Now let me show you the real why, values, etc. We, as a company, have no fucking core values. At the beginning there were a few smart ass, business savy dudes with an idea they thought interesting to make. So they started our c
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by frownie 12y ago
I build a small ERP (closed source so far)... 3 customers at 100€ / month => 300 €/month, paid in various ways...
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by frownie 12y ago
In the demoscene, doing the impossible was just regular behaviour :-) Just look at what they get out of a mere C64...
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by frownie 12y ago
Interstingly they talk about the "change palette in the middle of the screen" tricks that we used in Imphobia. The precision timing was certainly tricky, especially when playing a MOD-file while drawing ! Ahhh memories...
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by frownie 12y ago
forget about it, the answer to my question was written below my post :-) kudo for the video on the XT !
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by frownie 12y ago
Wiz / Imphobia here.. Damn, that is dedication. I didn't know there was a 160x200 X 4 bits resolution on the CGA card. How was that activated ?
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by frownie 12y ago
Given enough time, can a ball bounce out of the labyrinth ? Obvously, not always. So, in which condition can this happen ?
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by frownie 13y ago
I think this particular idea of storing information in the BSP leaves was the big innovation brought to us by Id Software. Now, the elephant in the room is : how to build a well balanced BSP tree... But well, that's an entirely differe
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by frownie 13y ago
Ahhhh AppleSoft + whatever graphical extensions, GPLE, Toolkit Assembler (there was another assembler but I don't remember its name), Pascal UCSD in 80 columns,cp/m,... Memories...
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by frownie 13y ago
Let me laugh. If they'd be successful, how open would they have been about the way they make it a success ? Call me cynic, but saying "it's do educate" seem quite pretentious to me. Show me how to win, not how not to loo
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by frownie 13y ago
I definitely concur with this. Acceptance tests are really powerful as they somewhat "imply" unit tests. Using your gut-feeling to write them makes the process less brute force than "proper unit testing"
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by frownie 13y ago
How many of you are actually handling big Java projects ? Mine is not that big but big enough to have 15 sub projects, 200 dependencies, 5 people for maintenance, batch, GUI, JEE stuff. The only thing I can say is taht although Java is nice
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by frownie 14y ago
Damn you all, you're so naive... 1/ Amazon is a private company. 2/ You don't buy books from them, you buy a license to read them. So by buying a book, you agree with their power. If you don't like to be in such control, then please, apply
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by frownie 14y ago
OK, you have good insight. So here's the deal... I'm rewriting an old, limited BASIC (!) application. So my "customer" knows quite well what he needs (he needs the same, but better). So requirements are rather easy to grasp. I also demonstr
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by frownie 14y ago
I have a side project which is writing a production management plant for my brother in law's company.. That's not exactly "a quick website", took me around 600 hours (six hundreds) so far. I've worked 2 hours a day, 4 days a week on average

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