johnc1231

Even if you have the immobilizer on your new car, if a potential thief thinks your car is one of the stealable ones, you may still end up with a broken window.

How do they identify a crawler? Can a user not masquerade as a crawler somehow?

I find Zulip to be a nice balance. Threads are much more prominent than they are in Slack, but aren't clunky.

Odyssey is closer to 64 than Galaxy. You don't repeatedly enter the level for different stars, you just enter the level once and there's different objectives that reward you with stars. Definitely not on rails at all.

Another plus one for Zulip, huge improvement over Slack for me.

We do this for our project (https://hail.is) and it's a game changer. Saves so much time and so many bug reports.

Zulip has been great for our team

I don't think netlib-java is LGPL. Where does it say that it is?

Having Apache Spark as a dependency kept us locked into JDK 8 for ages. They've finally got things updated now, but I don't know what their hold up was.

I'd also recommend "How to Design Programs", newest version is here: https://htdp.org/2020-8-1/Book/index.html. It's a much more accessible version of SICP.

Hail team member here. I'd be curious to hear what the things you don't like about hail are. Hopefully they're things that are already on our road map

Can you explain that line? I think I am missing something obvious.

In what was does the Nintendo Switch break the standard?

I suspect doing that will break down in the case of large Spark shuffles though?

I haven't dug into it myself, but Netflix makes something called Polynote that is supposed to add some awareness of the sequence of the cells to combat this

It might vary from field to field, but in genetics Excel is a complete nonstarter, and even numpy is not going to work on sufficiently large datasets. The project I work on, http://hail.is, was started to help deal with this.

Seconded, Zulip is awesome.

Yeah, I think the above poster said O(logn) space because that's the size of the line count in bits

I've never had this happen personally. What OS is this? I use Firefox on OSX installed through Homebrew, so I have to manually update it with brew. Firefox has never asked me to update.

The Turtle Moves

Northeastern University started doing this a few years ago as well. It definitely helps.

Is there any video somewhere of the actual game the handmade hero series builds up to? I would want to know the goal before jumping in

I don't believe there's any better reason than wanting the small population states to sign the Constitution in the 1780s. And maybe also an attempt to protect the needs of people like farmers from being ignored, since they would live in low population states compared to urban professionals. Not saying it's a good idea.

I always liked the prisoner box question, but I prefer the phrasing where the prisoners are assigned a number and the boxes are numbered. I feel like the "prisoners have to come up with a name to number mapping" step just gets in the way of the interesting part.

Agreed. I mean, the article literally uses his nickname ("the King") to refer to him. How could anyone who isn't being properly recognized have the well known nickname "King"?

I think Twitter's biggest problem with fake accounts is not that they are hard to identify, but that if they do identify them and shut them down, it'll hurt their "number of active users" stats

What I also like about this book is that it manages to get to "exciting" programs fairly quickly. Like, for a first time programmer, it can be boring to spend all your time writing things that convert Fahrenheit to Celsius or print staircases out of asterisks with double for loops. In this book, it's very easy to work with images, allowing things to move towards things like basic game development very quickly.

I've been interested in checking out Handmade Hero, but haven't yet found the time to start looking at it. One thing I would like to know though is what game they're actually making. Now that it's been going on for some time, is there a video somewhere of what kind of game is being made?