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Game Developer. Cricket Tragic. Book Lover. Awful Neutral. Qualified Contrarian. Tsundoku-veeran. Malayali. Thallippoli.
Hamburg/ThiruvananthapuramJoined September 2009

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My heuristic is to see if I can come up with a good context-free function name quickly.
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Replying to @cmuratori and @pedr0fontoura
100% yes. The folks that demand that _anything_ repeated must be factored as a separate function are really just trying to Huffman code the code. That makes it harder to understand.
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Imagine this applied via AR glasses to everyone you see in real life.
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I don't wanna be known as the tiktok filter guy, but ICYMI after attacking GenX w teenage filter, tiktok just dropped a new filter to take out Millennials & GenZ. "Beauty filters" are not new, but the precision on this is beyond uncanny. This is psychological warfare & pure evil.
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This is Leo, a 2 months old German shepherd. Sonali bought him for ₹20K to surprise her husband. But Gaurav was allergic to dogs. Sonali is now looking for a new home for him. If anyone is interested, Gaurav is 29 year old, drives a bike, can cook, has sharp features & is cool
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A classic: "In 1982, Larry "Lawnchair" Walters and his girlfriend bought 45 eight-foot weather balloons and enough tanks of helium to fill them." "His plan was to take off from his home in San Pedro, California and simply float 30 feet above his backyard for a few hours."
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This guy in Half-Life 2 (known as "Manhack Matt") is the only person in the game capable of fighting with a metal pipe. This is because the pipe is actually a crowbar, which is hardcoded to use the pipe model when picked up by an npc_citizen with the name keyvalue "matt"
A dark-skinned man in a dirty blue jumpsuit swings a pipe at a blue-green hovering drone that is covered in blades (a "manhack"). They are in a dirty underground tunnel surrounded by graffiti, ramshackle wooden scaffolding, and oil drums.
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What is the most useless piece of video game knowledge you know?
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NZ spinner Shane Thomson v Sachin Tendulkar at Hamilton 1994 - A forgotten Contest. Sachin hits 4,4,4 but then Thomson bowls a BOUNCER. Sachin, clearly surprised, tries to hook it but gets caught. A very good mini battle which the bowler won against the mighty Tendulkar.
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I've been searching high and low for a good programming book for years, and I've finally found one. Considered and discarded: A Philosophy of Software, SICP, SD for Flexibility, Refactoring, Design Patterns, PragProg, Clean Code, and so on. None of them captured the essence of
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Fun fact: Wikipedia has 10 times as much money as it needs. Very little of that goes towards improving the encyclopedia itself, and NOTHING to the authors. Their panhandling is purely a grift for supporting the ever growing parasitic Wikimedia Foundation
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