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by hmbg 11y ago
This is the key. I'd argue that you can keep a 20k codebase in your head. If the codebase is larger than that, you need to be confident that you can safely ignore the rest of it while working on your piece. If you need to manually chec
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by hmbg 11y ago
Even if technology, or more likely the web, will get to a point where it's good enough, people are notoriously awful at identifying that point when it comes. See old quotes about five computers in the world and whatnot. I always find i
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by hmbg 11y ago
"Before Google the Internet was more useful" Wow, could not disagree more. It's order of magnitudes easier for me to find a good answer for virtually any question. Not to mention how much better gmail is than mail clients of
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by hmbg 11y ago
The proper way of playing fast notes on a guitar (with a pick) is alternate picking, up/down/up/down. So a three note per string scale ascension would be dud udu dud udu ... I never learned that. Instead I took the shortcut c
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by hmbg 12y ago
CoffeeScript has no types. I have no clue why people keep including CoffeeScript when they talk about static type alternatives to JavaScript.
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by hmbg 12y ago
I've just used this to get a solid undo/redo in our WebGL editor. It works amazingly well, and is very performant. However, our backend is not in Javascript, so if I'd want to use it for data transport I'd have to make a
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by hmbg 12y ago
The OP was talking about the current incumbent, and the solution proposed does not work for web applications, since the JSON.stringify in most browsers do not sort keys. Sure, you could implement your own javascript version, but it will be
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by hmbg 13y ago
I like this idea, and I think it's helped my confidence greatly over the years because of my disparate hobbies (he's a better coder than me, but can he do a backflip?). I've been pondering lately, if I defined my own decathlo
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by hmbg 13y ago
It's not there yet, but we're working hard to make it happen at gootechnologies.com. Main focus is 3D games for now, but we're going to attack 2d in early summer. Right now you can prepare your scenes and do some basic intera
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by hmbg 13y ago
Our (goo's) idea is to make it easier for game developers to make web based games, so you don't have to be a web developer to get a great browser experience. Still quite early in the process, but I have a good feeling.
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by hmbg 13y ago
Yes, it seems the server was not expecting this kind of attention. Should be fixed now.
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by hmbg 13y ago
I think the point is that writing code on isolated parts without thinking about the overall purpose and architecture of the program leads to bloat, repeated functionality and diverging paradigms/conventions in the same codebase. I agree tha
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by hmbg 13y ago
That one (and similar guides) really helps. When I started out programming and went to IRC for help people frequently pointed me to those tutorials. When I started to follow the gist of them, I got friendly answers all the time. This goes b
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by hmbg 13y ago
So it's a no on preparing some in your pressure cooker? http://what-if.xkcd.com/40/
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by hmbg 13y ago
I'm guessing an automatic ID reader is a lot cheaper than a fingerprint reader. Most long-distance buses around here have them, so you don't have to bring a ticket (just book with your id number). It might be easier to spoof an ID reader, b
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by hmbg 14y ago
Agreed, bad things are bad. I was in pain for 3-4 years in my early twenties due to Bechterew's disease, and it was a thoroughly bad experience. Though still mild compared to what the author describes, it really messed me up, making me angr
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by hmbg 14y ago
> Bullshit. I didn't do my first startup until I was 32. Stop thinking like that. If you're a programmer, your prime is still 20 years ahead of you. (Believe me, I know.) I love you a little for that
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by hmbg 14y ago
Without having done much research I also find it easy to imagine that the sedentariness of the paleo-people where, on average, a lot less than of people nowadays.
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by hmbg 14y ago
Some 37 signals outlet had a nice discussion on this. The key in their view was to limit the number of features rather than the quality of said features. Something about thinking of the features you want on a 2D map, and the thickness being
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by hmbg 14y ago
In the foreseeable future, the form factor of a phone makes it impractical to e.g. strap on your helmet, while the more cubical gopro would be a very impractical handset.
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by hmbg 14y ago
I guess it comes down to how specific expectations you have. I don't plan everything minutely, I just expect it will be a great experience in general, whatever happens. That way I look forward to it, and enjoy thinking about it. But I don't
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by hmbg 14y ago
This doesn't work at all for me. I love having expectations. I love looking forward to things. I'm going on a trip in May, and I expect it to be great. If it sucks, I might be a bit disappointed, but the vacation is a week, and the time I c
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by hmbg 14y ago
I'd guess it will work the same as with facebook login. If you have a good reason to get your users private data, you may do so (using facebook, twitter, google+, etc). If you only need a login mechanism, you need to provide an alternative
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by hmbg 14y ago
If you did something wrong, and know it, I think it's laudable to own up to it and be nice about it. If you get a free pass, great, if not, well, you deserve it. The OP was trying to do something right, and got punished for it.
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by hmbg 14y ago
I believe the argument is not that the Quora team should be incarcerated for putting up a wall, but rather that this setup may not be the best way to build a large community and, in the long term, a profitable company.
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by hmbg 14y ago
I get what you're saying. Maybe you could throw in a lower bound of the hue variation of the image as a parameter into the search to find "natural looking" images but with prominent fields of the desired color.
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by hmbg 14y ago
Your second reason is an interesting one. Winning the lottery may be nice, but I don't think it would impact my level of happiness in a big way. The confidence I'd get from selling my company for millions of dollars, that's another thing en
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by hmbg 14y ago
It might be correct about the 4 hours. It might also be irrelevant for most people. For most disciplines, accomplishing anything consists of some cognitively very demanding work, and a lot of 'admin'. Some violin players and mathematicians
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by hmbg 14y ago
Agreed; flashcards have worked quite well for me for learning lots of words. Also for me, vocabulary is normally the limiting factor, while Getting grammar an pronounciation up to a usable level is a lot easier. I guess that differs from in
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by hmbg 14y ago
I spend most of my public transport time reading books - on my smartphone. That is one of the features I'd miss most if my phone broke. People are engrossed in their smartphones, but whether they're looking at cat pics or reading Nietzsche,

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