mdbauman

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by mdbauman 2y ago
> Truly understand your motivation Sad to say I've only recently come to this realization. It applies to pretty much anything, whether it's building a business or exercise or learning to draw. And if your motivation can't
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by mdbauman 2y ago
Agreed. This is my preferred setup, and over the years I've bought several of the MS ergonomic keyboards the GP mentioned. With the separate numpad you can position it just above the mousepad so it's still easily accessible, but y
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by mdbauman 2y ago
The sidebar link on the Minecraft wiki taught me about the extension "Indie Wiki Buddy," https://getindie.wiki/ which among other things prioritizes non-Fandom search results.
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by mdbauman 2y ago
To me, it wasn't just moderating adult content, it was the way they went about it. They used an AI to review every existing post, which resulted in many false positives, and deleted everything it deemed inappropriate. I was drawing a l
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by mdbauman 2y ago
It seems weird to me that the article lists several gamified apps without mentioning advertising. It seems obvious to me that gamified apps like Duolingo are incentivesed to keep eyeballs glued to screens mostly because advertisers pay per
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by mdbauman 3y ago
Although I agree, most times where I mix any of these without parentheses I end up having to explain it either in code review or when somebody does a `git blame` a couple months later. Rather than waste everyone's time explaining it, i
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by mdbauman 3y ago
Agreed, with the caveat that you also need a policy/culture that the escape hatch should be avoided whenever possible and the low-code work should not be done by developers. Whenever I've discussed this, the common theme is that b
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by mdbauman 3y ago
This xkcd seems relevant also: https://xkcd.com/303/ One thing that jumps out at me is the assumption that compile time implies wasted time. The linked Martin Fowler article provides justification for this, saying that
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by mdbauman 3y ago
It's for this reason that I appreciate this article, even though it has a (playful, well-intentioned) negative tone toward Godot which is a project I donate to. This is wonderful criticism! It's thoughtful and well-researched. Hel
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by mdbauman 3y ago
Back when I decided it was time to add a scripting language, Perl and Python seemed like the obvious choices, and in my mind were equally good options. I asked my best friend which I should choose, and he more or less said, "You can&#x
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by mdbauman 3y ago
This is how I met most of my current friends, as well. I was at a local bar one night on what turned out to be trivia night. There were a few of us who didn't know anybody well but had seen each other at the bar before, so we decided t
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by mdbauman 4y ago
Chromebooks that are a couple years old seem to run pretty cheap, especially refurbished. Installing Linux is simple enough, although some (all?) have non-standard key layouts which can require some additional setup to get working comfortab
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by mdbauman 4y ago
I highly doubt the phone and PC markets will converge any time soon. Apple has made seemingly made the most progress toward this and it isn't hard to imagine someone plugging their iPhone in to a screen when they arrive at work and res
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by mdbauman 4y ago
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2347 I was a little sad to read that Mills in fact lives in Delaware, not Nebraska. I always had a sneaking suspicion that this comic was NTP-related.
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by mdbauman 4y ago
As a fan of Lua, one complaint not mentioned in the article but that I think is relevant if you're starting to learn the language is that minor releases often contain breaking changes. This is fine - the maintainers can number things
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by mdbauman 4y ago
The friction in buying games these days is so low, I don't understand how this would result in more units shipped for any publisher that chooses to use this. If you're "pirating" a game, I imagine (because this is why I
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by mdbauman 4y ago
You obviously know this since you linked a Swift bindings project, but for others reading who may not be aware: Godot officially supports multiple languages ("GDScript, C#, VisualScript, and C++ and C via its GDNative technology"[
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by mdbauman 5y ago
https://archive.ph/YEv1x This archive from 03:58 has several of the images.
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by mdbauman 5y ago
I once had a "Lead Frontend Developer" who mostly did HTML and CSS (and was quite good at it) and could get by with jQuery to do various visual effects. We had a large contract to maintain a site that used AngularJS, and he convin
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by mdbauman 5y ago
Yep, it sounds like a (semi?)unique structure is required for each target virus. > A specific combination of nucleotides is first modeled in simulation to be the correct size to handle the target virus
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by mdbauman 5y ago
I've tried a similar setup with a Novation Launchpad that I had bought to function as a sort of Stream Deck before this product existed (but without the little displays of course.) It's just a MIDI controller, so I could use a [pi
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by mdbauman 5y ago
Thank you for the recommendation. I didn’t really understand why I should care about the game from videos/screenshots/marketing text, but after reading this description it was an instant purchase.
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by mdbauman 5y ago
While I enjoyed what I've read of the series so far, I think it's a valid criticism that some books read more like a love letter from a fan than a history or notes from the developers. If you're considering reading some of th
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by mdbauman 5y ago
A true classic, thanks for reminding me of this article. If I remember correctly, the "hacking manuals" section is what inspired my reading for much of middle school. I wonder how many other 12-year-olds turned in a book report on
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by mdbauman 5y ago
For anyone seeing the copyright claim and wondering what this was, it seems to be a BBC documentary called Can You Feel It - How Dance Music Conquered the World. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11719632/
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by mdbauman 6y ago
I came here to say this as well. I'm glad these libraries (and Ludum Dare!) are encouraging people to explore programming.
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by mdbauman 6y ago
Thank you for mentioning Realmz. I played a demo sometime around '97 and have been recently been hoping to find it again, but could never remember the name of the game or developer. I'm glad my search is finally over - looks like
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by mdbauman 6y ago
Thank you, that's good to know. I always thought it was normal and people other than me just got used to the pulse noise.
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by mdbauman 6y ago
Great idea; I'll add it to my "read later" folder. Joking aside, this does sound like something I'd actually use and the formatting on the resulting document is very pretty. And just to let you know, your "Buy us a
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by mdbauman 6y ago
I agree with this, also based on my experience working at an ad agency. Particularly the part about team members with different expertise finding better ideas and execution strategies. I'll buy that on average, brainstorming is an inef

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