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Ask more? The book is expensive. If he lowers the price, say to $10, the sales will probably increase 10x.

> How far should we go in making things generic ? Never make things generic apriori.

> which is probably some trivial math... The clock hand problem can be solved with the Rule of Three https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-multiplication#Rule_of_T...

Yeah, but perhaps the 90% of each 5% is common to all users.

Exactly. It scales linearly, not quadratically. I forgot to mention that since clients do the "original" encoding, the server actually does less work (regarding resolution tiers).

> 100 outgoing video feeds. Not many machines can encode 100 video feeds in realtime The server will send 9 video streams to each connection, but it has to process only 10 video st…

Still, isn't it one stream per client? Why 10 streams each?

Firstly, a client will have 10 outgoing video streams at most, not 100! Secondly, if we consider receivers bandwidth, a client can encode 2 or 3 video streams, e.g. low, medium, an…

The fundamentals are about positional elements and strategic principles. For example: Relative value of the pieces, Control of the center, Pawn structure, Tactics, Initiative, Temp…

Yes, it's indeed a property, not a problem. The problem is the accidental complexity which has the tendency to increase and requires constant effort/energy from us to keep it low.

Taste and Aesthetics https://www.artima.com/intv/taste.html Taste for Makers http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html

"I have yet to see an interesting piece of code that comes from these OO people [...] It claims that everything is an object. Even if it is true it is not very interesting"

We use double buffering to avoid flickering, but still we have to clear the back buffers.

Classes vs Data Structures, or maybe Objects vs Data Structures, or maybe Classes vs Objects, or maybe Data vs Data Structures, or maybe Data vs State, or maybe Classes vs Types, o…

I use extensively in my projects the Component decoupling pattern: http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/component.html The Observer and Mediator patterns can then be used for wiring …

Very interesting. It contains a few subtitle providers I've never heard before. Thanks for posting it.

Perhaps the most difficult problem is to find a subtitle in multiple languages.

The problem isn't only about matching subtitles to movies but also where to look for subtitles, e.g. opensubtitles.org, subscene.com, etc.

Good idea, I could do it.

It's not based on math, it's empirical. In practice seems to work. I applied it on the minefield in the article and I solved it. To put it another way, on two adjacent tiles where …

The mines are uniformly distributed, yes, but the numbers are not. In a relatively sparse minefield, how likely is to find a 4? Of course depending on the "shape" of a cluster, cha…

I use a simple but effective tactic. 50-50 chances on nearby/adjacent tiles aren't actually 50%. If one tile would reveal a 4 and the other a 2, pick the second, because 4s are mor…

> someone in Greece 2000 years ago How the Ancient Greeks Invented Programming http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Philosophy-Programming Summary: Matt Butcher explores the philosop…

Jack of all trades, master of none.

That's keyboard ghosting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollover_%28key%29#Key_jamming_... http://www.microsoft.com/appliedsciences/antighostingexplain...