tompko

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by tompko 2y ago
The elision of the 'e' in -cester placenames so that the 'c' and 's' have a single sound is reasonably common e.g. Leicester, Gloucester, Worcester, Towcester, Bicester. So English natives should have a reasona
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by tompko 12y ago
> In UK only people who are explicitly listed on the insurance document can drive the car That's not entirely true, it depends on your insurance. It's an offence to drive a car without insurance, and an offence to allow someone
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by tompko 12y ago
It's an easily recognizable icon that indicates which room to use and doesn't rely on which language you speak. For English speakers M and F might be just as easy, but which would you use of حمام للرجال and حمام للنساء?
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by tompko 13y ago
Google is half right. One translation for "quod" is because, or reason for, which is the sense that Google is presumably using here. You're probably after "ratio" from "reor" meaning thought.
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by tompko 13y ago
I've got several hundred bookmarks, but they're certainly better sorted than the apps on my phone. I've got them in subfolders by type, and as another poster noted the address bar autofills from the bookmarks so it takes me n
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by tompko 13y ago
This article misses that the browser version of installing an app on a computer is bookmarking a web page in your browser. With cloud syncing I can even take my bookmarks with me across different computers. In their example, if I came acros
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by tompko 13y ago
There are some parts of the engine like move generation and searching that are nicely parallelizable with goroutines. As far as I know Go provides limited support for intrinsics, but you can always use C or assembly to provide access to thi
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by tompko 13y ago
For console games C++ is unlikely to be replaced in the near future, although an ever increasing portion of the game code is likely to be written in a scripting engine on top of and underlying C++ base. Of course, the main reason that the e
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by tompko 13y ago
"your application will move to the top of the pile...regardless of your qualifications." I've not used the LinkedIn job boards, but the rest of the article implies that the rest of the list is sorted with the "most quali
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by tompko 13y ago
These are quite different circumstances though. Bethesda were trying to apply their trademark in an overly broad way to an unconnected game, whereas the makers on your site are using Mojang's exact trademark to sell unlicensed goods ba
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by tompko 13y ago
http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/technical/game-progr... gives a fairly reasonable progression, and in general gamedev.net has a lot of useful tutorials and articles.
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by tompko 13y ago
Technically an overflow on a signed variable results in undefined behaviour so it could crash out, but all the compilers I've tried just wrap around.
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by tompko 13y ago
I'll quite happily take the snacks if it means I can code in peace all day and not have to worry about finding funding, talking to investors, keeping the company running, etc. They're the ones with money on the line too, they probably deser
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by tompko 13y ago
World of Goo (90%), Machinarium(90%-95%) and the PC Gaming Alliance (90% for high end titles) have all claimed piracy rates of 90% or above. Also there seems to be a gap in your reasoning, going DRM free didn't cause the overload on their s
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by tompko 13y ago
That's anecdotal evidence too. There's nothing to show that it being DRM free caused it to be pirated more. I've seen figures that suggest that 90% of installs of a game come from pirates, so at 85% (18,000 legitimate installs from 120,000)
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by tompko 13y ago
> "DRM-free scares the shit out of me" Why? DRM certainly doesn't prevent piracy, and from at least anecdotal evidence removing DRM reduces piracy and increases sales. There are a few studies that I found that bear out the last point, b
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by tompko 14y ago
It depends entirely on the senior dev. If it were me I'd be glad for the pointers from someone more experience with the language than me. Even the most junior of devs probably knows more about some particular subject than I do, and I'm alwa
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by tompko 14y ago
That was to develop one of their iterations, it was a team of 20 working for three or four years. I can't find the source, it may well have been a talk at GDC.
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by tompko 14y ago
If they're good, yes. Look at Unreal, id Tech, Unity. For AAA console games, a large number of them license the Unreal engine from Epic. For mobile and smaller games the Unity engine offers both Android and iPhone compatibility. They are hu
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by tompko 14y ago
If I'm at a restaurant looking at the menu it's because I'm doing something out of the ordinary. Maybe I'm on holiday, or I'm treating myself (or someone else), or celebrating. In any case I don't really care about calories, I'm there to en
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by tompko 14y ago
There's a talk by Randall Munroe (xkcd) at google where this is debunked by Knuth himself. It also features him being asked questions about Python by Guido. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJOS0sV2a24
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by tompko 14y ago
>I’m not really suggesting that you permanently disable the h, j, k, and l keys. ... But...If it forces you out of your comfort zone and encourages you to use wordwise motions, character searches, and other motions, then it counts as a
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by tompko 14y ago
Actually studies suggest that for "knowledge workers" like programmers 25 minutes is the average amount of time it takes to recover from an interruption to a task. So half an hour lost to an interruption isn't that bad an estimate. Anecdota
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by tompko 14y ago
This wasn't lost at all, several sites and newspapers mentioned it. The answers were that Tesla collects this data on all cars given out to journalists for test drives and any cars where the owner gives consent.
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by tompko 14y ago
Sony's initial releases are larger than later slim versions for the same reason that computers used to take up entire rooms and now fit comfortably in your pocket. Given that it's not releasing till around the end of this year the design pr
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by tompko 14y ago
They say part way down the page "We will provide an interface that will allow you to submit your solution for grading closer to the due date. Instructions will be made available on the main course site.". Although that's the only reference
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by tompko 14y ago
I agree that a lot of code is "bad" looking back at it but, I think there's still a difference between bad programmers who when they find a screw are quite happy to drive it in with a hammer and good programmers who go looking for something
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by tompko 14y ago
If there are 11 digits that change then there are 10 11 possible different numbers. Depending on how many they use per day that give a different amount of time before they have to repeat: 1000 per day: 273791 years 1000000 per day: 273 yea
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by tompko 14y ago
Except that we're rapidly becoming better shots, and we're aiming at a target that's already been drawn.
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by tompko 14y ago
> while this can only be useful where you still have atmosphere and oxygen The planned SABRE engine can act as a rocket as well closing the intake and using stored liquid oxygen so it would be capable of operating without an atmosphere

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