The history of programming is devs frustrated at arbitrary limitations of syntax or modelling and forming new ones, with their own arbitrary limitations of syntax or modelling. When your only tool is a FOR loop hammer,…
Chicken and egg, perhaps? OOO lives and breathes state, so complexity (defined as an excess of state consideration) seems a natural pairing, yet the overhead and complexity is increased by each in response to the…
I asked Spector about his 'immersive simulations' comment some years back: "I just prefer games that are less puzzle oriented or "single-solution" oriented and games that offer deeper simulations. Simulations allow…
Storing it without availability is the same as it not existing.
People bought into the seductive lie of fairness is what happened, even when the sentiment was the opposite. Compare "blood is thicker than water", which was rooted in the opposite conclusion, that the blood of the…
Surprised this wasn't posted, as it mirrors most of the findings (closed vs open mind; how to optimize creative/unstressed thought, methodologies for maximizing output), John Cleese's talk on Creativity:…
Here's a free method that's twice as much work but produces great results: immediately after composing, for each step and nested step, write a line or two of what its place in the code is for. Write it as though the…
That should likewise account for variations in rate of learning, since you can't predict what prior knowledge they possess of the subject matter. If the rate is consistent, there must be more than existing knowledge…
Read Blue Ocean by Kim & Mauborgne. What is "really good" is that what shortens the distance between the problem of the consumer and the solution. As an example, audiophiles might sneer at consumers buying "cheap"…
Seriously. Where are you thinking of going, comrade?
>What do you use bookmarks for? Mostly to keep up a digital backlog to rival the stack of books next to my desk. Occasionally for reference in searching as they're sorted by topic and google search has steadily become…
At the end of the day everyone's really a pragmatist. Exceptions tend to shake the world, and not really for the better.
If the program knew the intention of the programming we wouldn't need programmers to begin with. Undefined behavior may be obvious to the architect but not to the architecture.
Successful people often attribute breakthroughs or revelations with banal origins: the archetypal shower thought, musings during a commute, taking a walk, or even taking a bath. These all represent the mind churning…
Perhaps people were more thoughtful when the demands and inefficiencies of quill penmanship necessitated measured words and deliberate prose. We could all stand from time to time to step back, take a deep breath and…
Careful there, you might burst the libertarian-leaning conceit behind the "difference" between libraries & unregulated e-books: if libraries didn't already exist today with centuries of tradition in their foundations,…
Pump & dumping any investment is often very fun, at whose expense is a matter for the courts.
>I'm not engaging in philosophy here. Then engage in dialogue, which requires a shared understanding. It very much matters the definition of free market if you intend to disprove (or more charitably, propose…
Nevermind compilers, the possibility of updating architectures & code bases by automation. A true feasible attack on tech debt and legacy code.
In the sense that there isn't any difference in spending your annual salary on lottery tickets instead of food. Before you balk, I point you at the handful of winners who raked in billions, a ROI most of these "food…
re: (e), they can't. I don't mean they cannot physically operate the sequence of events (even a properly incentivized chimpanzee could do that), but that they lack the programmatic sense of problem solving that is…
It sounds like Gavin went beyond that, cutting into Sony's forbidden library space; it helps that he was a lisp head and didn't respect the existing C prefabs. I don't remember if it was the blog or the extended video…
Realizing how pointless all of this is, for one.
The same way oil-scarce regions don't compete against oil-rich ones. Geography is destiny, and nations specialize in industry for a reason, beyond the universals (food, education, justice and social welfare).
>I kinda miss those days, and I kinda don't. I guess it was good to have experienced them. There's a certain reflective quality and even satisfaction from using a chainsaw after coming up using a tree saw by hand. It…
The history of programming is devs frustrated at arbitrary limitations of syntax or modelling and forming new ones, with their own arbitrary limitations of syntax or modelling. When your only tool is a FOR loop hammer,…
Chicken and egg, perhaps? OOO lives and breathes state, so complexity (defined as an excess of state consideration) seems a natural pairing, yet the overhead and complexity is increased by each in response to the…
I asked Spector about his 'immersive simulations' comment some years back: "I just prefer games that are less puzzle oriented or "single-solution" oriented and games that offer deeper simulations. Simulations allow…
Storing it without availability is the same as it not existing.
People bought into the seductive lie of fairness is what happened, even when the sentiment was the opposite. Compare "blood is thicker than water", which was rooted in the opposite conclusion, that the blood of the…
Surprised this wasn't posted, as it mirrors most of the findings (closed vs open mind; how to optimize creative/unstressed thought, methodologies for maximizing output), John Cleese's talk on Creativity:…
Here's a free method that's twice as much work but produces great results: immediately after composing, for each step and nested step, write a line or two of what its place in the code is for. Write it as though the…
That should likewise account for variations in rate of learning, since you can't predict what prior knowledge they possess of the subject matter. If the rate is consistent, there must be more than existing knowledge…
Read Blue Ocean by Kim & Mauborgne. What is "really good" is that what shortens the distance between the problem of the consumer and the solution. As an example, audiophiles might sneer at consumers buying "cheap"…
Seriously. Where are you thinking of going, comrade?
>What do you use bookmarks for? Mostly to keep up a digital backlog to rival the stack of books next to my desk. Occasionally for reference in searching as they're sorted by topic and google search has steadily become…
At the end of the day everyone's really a pragmatist. Exceptions tend to shake the world, and not really for the better.
If the program knew the intention of the programming we wouldn't need programmers to begin with. Undefined behavior may be obvious to the architect but not to the architecture.
Successful people often attribute breakthroughs or revelations with banal origins: the archetypal shower thought, musings during a commute, taking a walk, or even taking a bath. These all represent the mind churning…
Perhaps people were more thoughtful when the demands and inefficiencies of quill penmanship necessitated measured words and deliberate prose. We could all stand from time to time to step back, take a deep breath and…
Careful there, you might burst the libertarian-leaning conceit behind the "difference" between libraries & unregulated e-books: if libraries didn't already exist today with centuries of tradition in their foundations,…
Pump & dumping any investment is often very fun, at whose expense is a matter for the courts.
>I'm not engaging in philosophy here. Then engage in dialogue, which requires a shared understanding. It very much matters the definition of free market if you intend to disprove (or more charitably, propose…
Nevermind compilers, the possibility of updating architectures & code bases by automation. A true feasible attack on tech debt and legacy code.
In the sense that there isn't any difference in spending your annual salary on lottery tickets instead of food. Before you balk, I point you at the handful of winners who raked in billions, a ROI most of these "food…
re: (e), they can't. I don't mean they cannot physically operate the sequence of events (even a properly incentivized chimpanzee could do that), but that they lack the programmatic sense of problem solving that is…
It sounds like Gavin went beyond that, cutting into Sony's forbidden library space; it helps that he was a lisp head and didn't respect the existing C prefabs. I don't remember if it was the blog or the extended video…
Realizing how pointless all of this is, for one.
The same way oil-scarce regions don't compete against oil-rich ones. Geography is destiny, and nations specialize in industry for a reason, beyond the universals (food, education, justice and social welfare).
>I kinda miss those days, and I kinda don't. I guess it was good to have experienced them. There's a certain reflective quality and even satisfaction from using a chainsaw after coming up using a tree saw by hand. It…