sclangdon

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by sclangdon 7mo ago
Isn't it this case no matter who wrote the code? How do you ever run anything if you're worried about bugs?
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by sclangdon 2y ago
He may be referring to the fact that it could be pronounced Auschwitz. I must admit, my immediate thought on reading the name was "why would someone name their app after a concentration camp?"
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by sclangdon 3y ago
Most games don't have the time budget for that. Visuals take precedence, and it's not easy to get to 60fps as it is, especially if you're doing a lot of other processing. And stealth games especially will probably rely a lot
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by sclangdon 3y ago
I realise for casual users Windows is always going to be the OS of choice if for no other reason than it comes pre-installed and most people don't know how to reinstall an operating system. However, Windows may be in trouble with more
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by sclangdon 3y ago
It's not that we think it's arcane or that we are in our own "bubbles of thought", it's that we aren't doing math. We're programming a computer. And a competent programmer would know, or at least suspect,
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by sclangdon 4y ago
Maybe, but a circuit designer is pretty high up the list of things that need to be boring and functional.
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by sclangdon 4y ago
Kim Justice has a good documentary on Sensible Software, which I highly recommend if you're at all interested in Sensible Soccer or their other games like Cannon Fodder or Mega Lo Mania. https://youtu.be/lJWro7NGBKo
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by sclangdon 4y ago
Things such as function overloading, operator overloading, dynamic dispatch, etc, are all conveinient but also obscure what is actually happening. To take C++ as an example (I love C++ btw, this isn't another C++ bashing), a line as si
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by sclangdon 4y ago
My first job was as a COBOL programmer on an IBM mainframe (OS/370 I believe) for Xerox. The system was absolutely massive and incredibly difficult to navigate. There were thousands of files with names that only had 6 characters. So ev
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by sclangdon 4y ago
I don't really understand this idea of never taking your hands off the keyboard. Maybe people program differently to me, but most of the time I'm not typing anything. Most of my time is spent thinking. When my thoughts are clear a
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by sclangdon 4y ago
Karl Jobst (does a lot of speedrunnig videos) has a video on this, which is worth watching and explains everything in detail. https://youtu.be/58fqNL-kvaI
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by sclangdon 4y ago
I have a similar nitpick with boolean arguments. How many times have you seen something like: DoSomething(true, false, false)? It's much more readable if you use enums (in a language that doesn't let you specify the argument name
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by sclangdon 5y ago
If you're developing on Windows, I find a good way of dealing with this to convert paths to short format before using them (E.G. GetShortPathName in kernel32.dll).
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by sclangdon 6y ago
I think the point he's trying to make is even if you know how to deadlift correctly the amount weight involved carries a high risk of injury. Cleans on the other hand involve lower weight and so has a lower risk of injury (assuming you
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by sclangdon 6y ago
>Take a book out of Eddie Hall's playbook who says the exact same thing... And he's literally the strongest man in the world. Robert Oberst, another WSM competitor also says the same thing and talks about it on the Joe Rogan po
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by sclangdon 6y ago
Here is a good video tour of a similar thing in Jordan by premier Permaculture instructor Geoff Lawton. https://youtu.be/6fj0oeyREeM
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by sclangdon 6y ago
I'm currently working on a VB6 front-end (I say front end, but it 450,000 lines so probably a bit more to it!) with C++ back-end (and it's old C++ that uses MFC containers instead of std). We also have a lot of C# extras that are
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by sclangdon 7y ago
Are you sure you're burned out? It sounds to me like you just don't like working with your team lead, and he, apparently, doesn't like you too much, either. Sometimes people feel threatened. Maybe you're getting a lot of
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by sclangdon 7y ago
I come accross these .io games from time-to-time, and I've always wondered how they make their money. Does anyone have an insight on this?
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by sclangdon 7y ago
Actually, 3 is two orders of magnitude (or just 1 depending on whether you count 1 as an order of magnitude or not) more than 0.3 0.3 = 3 * 10^-1, which is -1 order of magnitude 3 = 0.3 * 10^1, which is 1 order of magnitude You are right th
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by sclangdon 7y ago
Isn't this the same idea as the Introsort[1], which was created in 1997 (four years earlier) and is the default sorting algorithm in C++'s standard library (and .NET framework since 4.5)? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by sclangdon 7y ago
C++, rather than C, but there was a GOTW post about this years ago, which explains the situation in detail. http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/081.htm
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by sclangdon 7y ago
Very common in my experience. In 16 years and 4 different companies, I've only worked on 2 projects (of dozons) that had a well established test process. The 2 projects in question were also, coincidentally, the only greenfield project
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by sclangdon 7y ago
This is also true in the UK. Any supermarket will stock lard, beef dripping, duck and goose fat. https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/300346570 https://www.tesco.com/groceries/e
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by sclangdon 8y ago
Duke Nukem 3D didn't use raycasting, either [0]. 0 - http://fabiensanglard.net/duke3d/build_engine_internals.php
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by sclangdon 8y ago
The question is, would the Stones be as popular today if they also split up after 7 years at the top? I'd argue they would since all of their best work (with the exception of Exile on Main St. - which was released in their 8th year) wa
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by sclangdon 8y ago
Whilst I agree with you that this isn't the best use of exceptions, one reason to use them this way might be because exceptions (generally) don't cost anything on the success path. if statements do. Of course exceptions cost a lot
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by sclangdon 8y ago
Wales introduced the One Planet scheme in 2011 to try and make this easier [0] (it's debatable whether it is, in-fact easier). The Lammas eco-village [1] in Wales is very similar to the one in the OP, and is one of the driving forces f
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by sclangdon 8y ago
I get that the idea is to have an ever-improving champion, and I like the idea, but it's not going to work out that way in practice. The best way to defeat the current champion will be to exploit it in some way, which will usually lead
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by sclangdon 8y ago
You may also find the YouTube channel PapersWeLove interesting [0]. I particularly recommend Casey Muratori's episode, where he talks about marching cubes, quaternions, and a fast way of computing the distance between complex objects i

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