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miketuritzin commented on Essential C (2003) [pdf]   cslibrary.stanford.edu/10... · Posted by u/th33ngineer
commandlinefan · 6 years ago
> Relying on the difference between the pre and post variations of these operators is a classic area of C programmer ego showmanship.

Ugh. He's talking about inline use of post-increment and pre-increment (i.e. x++ and ++x) here. This is perfectly readable to a C programmer, and sidestepping them actually makes the code harder to understand.

miketuritzin · 6 years ago
Can you give an example where not using them 'inline' makes code harder to understand?
miketuritzin commented on Spotify CEO: musicians can no longer release music only “once every 3-4 years”   thefader.com/2020/07/30/s... · Posted by u/jakelazaroff
TheOtherHobbes · 6 years ago
Good music - electrifying, change-your-life music - is still extremely scarce.

But Spotify has made it even harder to find by swamping it in mediocre burger+fries music.

miketuritzin · 6 years ago
I love music (and am a musician), but I disagree that good music is scarce. Part of the issue here (among many others) is that music is fairly "evergreen", and certainly much more so than apps. Zillions of people are still listening to the Beatles and Bob Dylan (two examples of "good music") more than half a century later. I worry that the ever increasing catalog of recorded music is making it ever harder to gain mindshare as a musician.
miketuritzin commented on Ask HN: Do you ever go back and admire a piece of code you wrote?    · Posted by u/grimwall
jannotti · 6 years ago
I get the feeling, but I rarely think "I'm completely done now, time to comment!" Better to admit that and document a bit earlier than when it's "finished".
miketuritzin · 6 years ago
I frequently think just before committing/pushing, "Time to add some comments!" That doesn't mean the code is fully finished, but it does provide a clear point in time to add them (when needed).
miketuritzin commented on YC W20 Online-Only Demo Day   blog.ycombinator.com/yc-w... · Posted by u/mrkurt
tlb · 6 years ago
I find it hard to concentrate on videos of people talking. I have no problem sitting in long lectures or conferences, but I get fidgety and distracted trying to watch conference videos on my laptop.

I'm used to thinking of video watching as being a low value activity that should not be optimized for, but there's an increasing amount of professionally necessary video watching.

Maybe I should build a dedicated video room, like a home theater but for work, with minimum visual distractions.

Do people have advice on how to focus on videos?

miketuritzin · 6 years ago
I have a ritual of watching through my queue of Youtube videos (on many topics) when I am preparing and eating breakfast each morning. It works well. I've been able to churn through so much useful content over the years that I wouldn't have normally watched.
miketuritzin commented on Being a Noob   paulgraham.com/noob.html... · Posted by u/rcardo11
Davertron · 6 years ago
I learned to play hockey about 5 years ago. Part of that was going to stick and puck sessions during the week, where I could basically do whatever I wanted; work on skating, stick handling, etc. Sometimes there would be literally no one else at the rink, and during those times it was super fun being a noob. I had a ton of stuff I could work on, and I would see progress from week-to-week. I started playing on a real team not long after starting to learn, and the games were the opposite. I just felt super embarrassed the whole time.
miketuritzin · 6 years ago
I have thought about this phenomenon with regard to the internet a lot. Online it's easy to be exposed to videos and other content produced by people who are literally among the best in the world at anything. This means we start to measure ourselves against the most unforgiving yardstick imaginable, which makes being a noob (or even "normal") even more painful.
miketuritzin commented on Cold-Water Swimming   newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/deepbow
jhu247 · 6 years ago
If you don't live near cold water, I find that taking an ice-cold shower has a similar physiological effect.
miketuritzin · 6 years ago
I have started doing this on days I go to the gym (3x per week) and anecdotally it has positive effects on how I feel mentally and physically. (And these effects have lasted after about 6 months of this practice.)
miketuritzin commented on 0.30000000000000004   0.30000000000000004.com/... · Posted by u/beznet
_bxg1 · 6 years ago
I remember in college when we learned about this and I had the thought, "Why don't we just store the numerator and denominator?", and threw together a little C++ class complete with (then novel, to me) operator-overloads, which implemented the concept. I felt very proud of myself. Then years later I learned that it's a thing people actually use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_data_type
miketuritzin · 6 years ago
Reminds me of this Inigo Quilez article on experimenting with rendering using rational numbers: https://iquilezles.org/www/articles/floatingbar/floatingbar....
miketuritzin commented on Half-Life: Alyx   half-life.com/en/alyx... · Posted by u/arthurfm
duncancarroll · 6 years ago
I don't know what all these posters are talking about, VR simulates your elbow + arm position 100% with normal IK.

If you don't believe me just load up Echo VR and look at your arms. Valve probably just doesn't want them blocking your view.

miketuritzin · 6 years ago
The same controller pose can correspond to different arm positions, so VR games/apps that do IK are making a guess that is generally going to be somewhat inaccurate. I do like the implementation in Lone Echo, though.

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