genbattle

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by genbattle 14y ago
I definitely feel this. I'm only 24, but already I can feel the effects of being in a chair for 8-16 hours a day. It's sad that it is happening so quickly, but it has really made me realize how much I need to break the cycle and start think
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by genbattle 14y ago
I'm literally going through this at the moment. I'm currently 24. I do still love programming, and I'd like to think i'm pretty damn good at it. But do I want to be doing it as a job in 30 years time? I'm not so sure anymore. I've been thro
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by genbattle 14y ago
I think he's not so much against having Minecraft run on Windows 8 at all (i'm sure if Java support it, it'll run), I think he's just more averse to serving it via Microsoft's store. I think Notch is overreacting in this case because he's a
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by genbattle 14y ago
This may just be me picking on one small part of the entire post, but I have a serious technical problem with some of the author's claims, not least of which is his feelings that FPGAs will somehow revolutionize personal computing. Anyone w
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by genbattle 14y ago
http://go-lang.cat-v.org/organizations-using-go A very comprehensive list of the organizations using Go; I think it's kept reasonably up to date, but new ones are popping up on the mailing list from time to time. For example, not to long
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by genbattle 14y ago
> Given that it has no template language Ahem... http://golang.org/pkg/html/template/ It doesn't have its own equivalent of RoR or Django yet because most of the batteries needed for web development are built-in.
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by genbattle 14y ago
I've been looking at making a 2D game library for Go based on some older Go code, and various people have made similar efforts, but there's nothing yet that's full and complete. The best option in most cases is to use bindings to OpenGL/SDL
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by genbattle 14y ago
I think in real usage (in my experience), this is very rarely the case. The only thing Generics are really extremely useful for is writing data structures that you can re-use with multiple data types. Also, I tend to appreciate Go's approac
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by genbattle 14y ago
The great thing about Go as a web language is that alot of the bones are already there - templates and HTTP handling are already waiting for you in the standard library. The most popular web frameworks i've seen for Go so far are Web.go (a
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by genbattle 14y ago
To be fair, this will change as go becomes more popular and mature, I don't even know why people keep bringing it up. Is "C" any more searchable? If C was 3 years old, search results would probably be dominated by pages on the letter "C". I
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by genbattle 14y ago
First of all; Go is compiled to binary form, it doesn't run on a VM (yet?). Second of all; the words you're looking for are "get" and "For", not "gets" and "Fore". Sorry to be a grammar nazi, but I'm just calling it as I see it, and this is
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by genbattle 14y ago
I've had very similar concerns about GC vs. Manual memory management for games. It's good to finally see some sort of quantitative research and investigation, rather than people throwing around their opinions. It's interesting that GDC is s
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by genbattle 14y ago
I think alot of these examples use esoteric or just plain "bad" C code just in order to create pits for programmers to fall into. In real life you would avoid writing code like this precisely because of these problems. The author even menti
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The connection with EA online was lost.(notanothertechnologist.blogspot.co.nz)
1 points by genbattle 14y ago|0 comments
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by genbattle 14y ago
If everyone dictated their own hierarchy for their code base, utilities like go build and go get wouldn't work. The guidelines are just guidelines - you can still do whatever the hell you want, but don't expect the standard tools to automat
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by genbattle 14y ago
Just thinking of a specific case, but what do you think about subscription games that promise a lifetime membership (e.g. Star Trek online), then end up going F2P anyway? I would postulate that this is a similar issue, as you are now being
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3 Freedoms I want as a Developer(notanothertechnologist.blogspot.co.nz)
1 points by genbattle 14y ago|0 comments
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by genbattle 14y ago
Image processing and machine vision is a big one. Part of the skeletal tracking algorithm for Kinect is implemented as a set of shaders on the Xbox's GPU. That's just one example, but anything that involves image processing is a prime examp
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by genbattle 14y ago
To be fair, no programming language has really taken a first-party approach to those specific problems. SIMD and GPGPU both fairly difficult low-level concepts as they stand: I think there would definitely be some valuable postgrad research
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A Turning Point(notanothertechnologist.blogspot.co.nz)
1 points by genbattle 14y ago|0 comments
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by genbattle 14y ago
This is an interesting counterpoint to the original time post; it's better to think about the amount of energy and focus you're putting into something, because in the end these resources are much more finite and variable than time. Time is
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by genbattle 14y ago
This reminds me of the movie In Time[1]. The movie itself isn't particularly amazing, but I definitely resonated with it's underlying themes around the value of both time and money, and how they are inextricably linked. It's a hard idea to
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by genbattle 14y ago
I'm in New Zealand, and ordered mine about the same time as you (NZD $55). The ETA when I ordered was 8-9 weeks, and it's been 3-4 already. Much like you, I haven't heard anything from RS in the meantime, which is a bit disappointing; a wee
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by genbattle 14y ago
In terms of WebGL though, I think the major platform for it is the traditional Desktop OS. When people talk about creating WebGL MMOs with 3D graphics, etc. I think there's too much of a performance-bottleneck in terms of graphics for WebGL
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by genbattle 14y ago
I agree that it seems weird Microsoft would implement an open standard like WebGL. Microsoft doesn't implement open standards, they create their own one and make it fundamentally incompatible with the open one (ODF/DOCX, OpenGL/DirectX, UPn
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by genbattle 14y ago
I completely agree on the specs; a Tegra3-based platform has more than enough grunt to deliver a "game console" experience for the sort of indie and free-to-play games this platform will attract. The only thing i'm concerned about is whethe
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by genbattle 14y ago
The other main site for jobs in NZ is the Jobs section of trademe.co.nz (who themselves are a pretty cool little company to work far, or so I hear). As far as startups in particular I don't know of any particular website or anything that NZ
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by genbattle 14y ago
I took the dive into Vim about a year ago. I was at the stage where I'd become proficient with some command-line tools in Linux, but I didn't yet have an editor I could use fluently from the command line. I tried out both Vim and Emacs, and
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by genbattle 14y ago
I don't have any immediate insight for the difference in performance you're seeing (my hunch is that it's to do with where and how memory is being allocated), but I would suggest you ask about it on the Go-Nuts mailing list: https://groups
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by genbattle 14y ago
For big data sets or complex SIMD algorithms the I/O bandwidth overhead is tiny compared to the speedup achieved by moving the calculation to the GPU. For the calculations that don't work well on the GPU due to small data sets, simple calc

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