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by pydave 1y ago
WhatsApp doesn't entirely brick itself. You can send and receive messages, but can't assign names to anyone or start group chats. I agree it should be prevented. It seems so absurd and is clearly not necessary. Android should have
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by pydave 2y ago
Yeah, didn't even verify emails. I got a surprise discord account back in 2015 because someone else used my email. I guess this xkcd[1] applies to younger people too. 1: https://xkcd.com/1279/
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by pydave 3y ago
I think that's very regional? Salary surveys usually list Europeans much lower after currency conversion. A half decade before you, I also started at a big studio writing C++ (but with one degree) and was paid more twice that but in Ca
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by pydave 3y ago
> many tools that tried to solve that problem back in the day (Flash, Spline, etc.) don't suffice these days. If you can emulate the look and feel of a hand drawn animation without requiring 1 year+ from your artists to produce cont
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by pydave 3y ago
If you want to compete with AAA games then you may need AAA graphics, but the market is larger than that. Look at Re-Logic (Terraria), Supergiant (Hades), Megacrit (Slay the Spire), Klei (Don't Starve), Evil Empire (Dead Cells), Team C
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by pydave 3y ago
It's not $10k/year: > A “middle game” should only take 1 to 9 months to create and can be profitable (or at least not a money sink) because it is expected to earn in the range of $10,000 to $40,000. $53k/year isn't a
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by pydave 3y ago
Autohotkey is amazing, but I wish it used a saner language. I struggled to write a reliable golden ratio version of aero snap [1]. Dealing with different monitors, sizes, etc doesn't seem like it should be so hard, but I always get tri
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by pydave 3y ago
> imgproxy server that needs to run somewhere publicly available, be kept alive and secure Why make this runtime instead of a prepublish script (even a git commit hook or CI action)? Doesn't seem like your images would ever change s
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by pydave 3y ago
diffconflicts [dc] lets you resolve diffs as a two way diff between what's in the conflict markers instead of including the resolved parts in the diff. It opens the diff in vim but could be adapted for other editors. Verbose explanatio
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by pydave 3y ago
Are exams all written online now? Were they okay with students googling answers and sharing them with each other, but getting customized answers from a robot is where they draw the line?
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by pydave 3y ago
Vim's addition of .vimrc and .vim allowing you to store editor programs to further accelerate your editing makes stand vim far beyond vi. Credit Bill Joy for the modal editing paradigm, but vim is so much more than that. Most editors h
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by pydave 3y ago
> Your keybinding to go to the next quickfix item doesn't work in a location list because it uses :cn^M, but the location list wants :ln^M or whatever. Navigating quickfix and location lists is global, so a single common command wo
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by pydave 3y ago
Is that because they're parsing porcelain output? Or is git's plumbing machine-readable but not well specified? But git users are more familiar with porcelain so I wouldn't be surprised if they parsed that for an initial im
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by pydave 3y ago
I'm not so sure. Neovim migrated to a more modern style of C and more tightly integrated Lua as its scripting language (instead of conscript). Those are two large potential stumbling blocks for contributors. From loosely following deve
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by pydave 3y ago
Appreciation for that id code means you may appreciate "John Carmack on Inlined Code (2014)": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12120752
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by pydave 4y ago
What's the financial imperative to having a high score on SO? Better job offers because you have high rep?
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by pydave 4y ago
Looks nice, but too bad you can't run different pathfinders on the same maze. Running on an empty grid is default but it's less interesting to me.
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by pydave 4y ago
> Also it is technical and not user-friendly for windows users, because luarocks (package manager) is unusable there unless you’re skilled in C build systems and are ready to fix these issues. I've found using hererocks[1] makes set
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by pydave 4y ago
Seatbelts don't impede my ability to drive (having to constantly manage the car keeps me in the seat). Types _do_ impede my ability to write code: I have to write more of it. Types can certainly help prevent something from going wrong,
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by pydave 4y ago
I've also found narrower columns of text generally easier to read. My browser is usually a half screen so many websites display their mobile mode. I assumed it was this shorter lines effect that Pocket, Instapaper, etc put wide margins
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by pydave 5y ago
The update isn't forced, you have automatic updates enabled on your ps4. Disable (Uncheck) automatic updates from [Settings] > [System] > [Automatic Downloads] You'll have to uninstall the game and reinstall it from your har
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by pydave 5y ago
I use a similar technique to the Ian knot except I pinch the shoelace instead so only the forefinger and pinky are involved and my middle finger is free to hold the slip knot. The technique I use looks like this: https://youtu.be
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by pydave 5y ago
Why do you think in-person code walkthroughs are effective but tool-mediated reviews are not? Most of my code review comments are along the lines of "what does this do" -- the primary question I'm asking in an in-person revie
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by pydave 5y ago
Unfortunately, those goals are rarely communicated and accepted by the people they're imposed on. My first full-time job had an unexplained email expiry policy. After being frustrated several times at losing some explanation on how&#x2
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by pydave 6y ago
That was a fun diversion. I managed to hit 268!
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by pydave 6y ago
Do you make changes to Unreal's source? Or have middleware that makes changes (Havok and Fmod)? Your effort estimates line up with mine, but I'm not sure about the ROI (but it's been a few years and I was pre-fortnite). We ma
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by pydave 7y ago
> Are my standard algorithms letting me down? Does std::transform have some fatal flaw? Not really. Well, not at all. This part lost me because I can't see how you can use std::transform (which is in <algorithm>) without hitti
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by pydave 7y ago
Unity 5 came out in 2017 and it's not supported on Catalina.[1] So devs of two year old games will need an old macOS install that can export their game to 64-bit, but also a new enough macOS install that can notarize their app (maybe t
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by pydave 11y ago
Vim is still usable for day-to-day work: it works on Windows, it has a gui binary, it's a stable build and not a beta. People are going to have bug reports/fixes for what they're using. Also, fixes seem to be flowing from vim
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by pydave 12y ago
Vigor already exists as a cruel parody of vi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigor_(software) But I like your idea. Something like Vittle as a whittled-down version of vim.

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