Have you ever lost your code before?
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To whomever that has read upto here: you hereby implicitly agree my EULA, in which you swear to enjoy each of your scientific pursuits with intensity and to your fullest degree; and sometimes even to a dangerous degree, if the mood carries you thus. Additionally, you agree to never allow an employer, family member, or any other authority to break your intrinsic spirit; for they have no means of dominating your spirit except that which you subconsciously allow them. You shall be true to yourself and to your own principles, regardless of society (though in privacy). You shall hereby refuse to believe any scientific statement as "true", however benign, except those in which you alone have proven to yourself to be true, by your own hand and evidence. (Though it doesn't hurt to check out what other people have to say on the subject, from time to time; in fact, it turns out to often be a more valuable course of action, for the careful analysis of a close friend can often reveal subtle flaws in your process and in your logic, while occasionally forcing you to re-evaluate your core reasoning for choosing that process in the first place, which always leads to the path of learning and thus improvement and satisfaction.) You agree to eventually die with no regrets. Let no one impose themselves upon your judgement without merit. You shall endeavor to enjoy life to the fullest extent of the law (where applicable), and to realize that money is merely a means, not an end unto itself. In your spare time, you shall research that which is impossible, but intriguing, in order to always have something to strive for, thereby improving your skill and your spirit. You shall follow your curiosity wherever it leads (but keep both eyes open for signs of danger).
Most importantly: thou shalt enjoy every week, else thou shalt fix your life's situation regardless of how immutable it may seem.
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(Newton-Raphson Method)
I'd rather strike out a dozen times than watch from the stands.
If you want to play an absolute gem of a game, go grab Cave Story. It's free, and it's "fun", in the most distilled form.
It's one of those games that makes you wish you could wipe your memory --- just to re-play it again for the first time.
That's... Well, that's ironic. I wonder why he decided to pursue gamedev with more passion than rocketdev?
Keen was possible due to a stroke of genius, letting him trick the monitor itself into becoming part of his "adaptive tile refresh" system. I'm a little hazy on the details, but... it's just a cool, little-known fact that Carmack made the very first "Mario-style" side scroller for the PC -- a feat that no one else managed to pull off.
I think you're more capable than you give yourself credit for.
Then why don't you?
No, really, why don't you? Right now.
http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/output/html/singlepage/bgnet.html
http://developer.nvidia.com/physx
These are the (free) tools that I used to build something very close to Quake. If a dummy like me can, then so can you.
And if it's your fantasy, then you owe it to yourself to make it your reality. Go achieve what I didn't.
http://shawnpresser.blogspot.com/2010/10/how-to-become-game-...
^ That's an ordered list of projects, sorted by increasing difficulty. Basically, start with "guess the number".
As a (former?) game developer, I can say this is spot-on.
This is a work of art. It's not for any kind of profit.
It describes a farmer who knowingly violated an agreement he signed with Monsanto; then Monsanto suing said farmer, and winning.
I have no idea why this would make Monsanto an "evil company". I just don't get it. The farmer was under no obligation to sign the agreement.
Ha. There I go again, pretending I live around stuff-that-matters. Never come here.
And... A non-function-pointer is "16 or 23" bits? Nice.
What's the proper scenario to use "long" instead of "int"? I've never bothered to use it.
throws down gloves
This isn't true at all. Sam Altman had none of these things, yet he was still able to get a meeting to discuss Loopt.
Yes, you still needed "a meeting". But the process was not nearly as byzantine as you've made it seem.
My point was, there's nothing to be done about it. They're going to do it, just as sure as gravity.
Though, my area code is 314, strangely enough.
And I've been age 3 and age 14.
But I suppose that's why I have Dropbox account #314...
I'll try it, but I don't think the screen is physically capable of generating enough luminosity to provide any fine-tuned amount of contrast... :)
I'm on a 1Ghz Dell laptop from 5 years ago. So the screen is... less than stellar.
I also have $280 to my name in total :P
I just wish they weren't so... well, subtle. On my laptop, "Dark Leather" and "Triangles" both look exactly the same: a black rectangle.
By wiring the CPU directly to the RAM, to use your metaphor, then we can entirely bypass the ASM stage of "a program" (but then what is a program if not a sequence of instructions?) and therefore we may better predict which data our program needs at runtime? Thereby caching that data more effectively than the random access patterns of Von Neumann?
Basically, instead of "accessing a pointer causes its data to be cached into L1", it would be... Well, I have no idea. Something else?
Here are my points of confusion, sorry:
1) in this non-Neumann paradigm, there will still be "data", in the traditional sense, right? (Or is "everything a program"?)
2) then... There will surely still be "caches" for that data, yeah? (Or is that what I'm missing? But without caches, I don't understand how it could be faster.)
But yeah, I don't want to waste anyone's time... certainly not anyone of your guys' caliber. Don't feel compelled/obligated to reply or anything. :)