sam_perez

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Comment · 1 year ago

This is a bit topical for me. Game performance seems to be a real problem as of late... It’s not uncommon for me to play “retro” games that run poorly on my 4-series Nvidia gpu. Not a game developer myself but this is definitely still a problem in 2025.

Comment · 2 years ago

My first thought/question as well.

Comment · 2 years ago

How do you ensure this? Are you suggesting more analysis pre-building the product, or doing things like increasing the price until you've effectively filtered out enough of the people you don't "want to deal with", assuming that works.

Comment · 2 years ago

To be fair, it seems like the cloud development environment choice was driven by the scale of Stripe's organization.

Comment · 2 years ago

Any other Simon Lizotte and/or disc golf fans here? :D

Comment · 2 years ago

Hah, that is much fewer than I would have expected.

Too bad you can't do the same with phone numbers.

Comment · 2 years ago

How would you rate the quality of the dubs?

Do you think it's usable for learning? Seems like you could end up with some quirky learnings.

Comment · 2 years ago

Oh cool, how would you compare this to DuckDB?

Comment · 2 years ago

+1 for a reference to The Culture series :D

Comment · 2 years ago

Lol no not generally ;)

Just did not expect to be gazing into the windows of someone's soul immediately. The widescreen monitor may have contributed.

Comment · 2 years ago

Clicking on the link without knowing what it was ahead of time was jarring, even not actively participating.

Comment · 2 years ago

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This controller is intentionally written in a very verbose style. You will notice:

1. Every 'if' statement has a matching 'else' (exception: simple error checks for a client API call)

2. Things that may seem obvious are commented explicitly We call this style 'space shuttle style'. Space shuttle style is meant to ensure that every branch and condition is considered and accounted for - the same way code is written at NASA for applications like the space shuttle.

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This bit reminds me of exhaustive checks in typescript code. I try to use them all the time.

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/2/narrowing.htm...

Comment · 2 years ago

Reminds me of some scenes from the first book of the three body problem.

Comment · 2 years ago

I think the fact that a human can mostly just read csvs is an important part of their adoption, too.

Comment · 2 years ago

Yeah, this does seem like an odd middle ground.

But I suppose it's more about what you're tracking? For example, instead of tracking reference counts to variable, they're tracking reference counts to each scope. Then, if a scope has no more references, the variables it owns are cleaned up.