This is a valuable resource, and congrats on completing it! Although I don't know if it 100% complete... please provide source for the lurchIneffectively() method mentioned in the Command patter chapter :D .
Left as an exercise for the reader!
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
That reminds me of the Pareto Principle (20/80): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle I've found it to apply to many things in life. Edit: why would this be downvoted?
Because someone tried to upvote you on a smartphone, and Hacker News has a stubbornly non-mobile friendly design, with no undo.
Does anyone know what the rationale for not allowing users to undo votes is? I'd be happy even if it were only accessible for the first few minutes after the initial action...
There have been several times where I've accidentally upvoted low-quality (sometimes malicious) posts, and I never feel good about it.
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#54Bob, if you're lurking this thread: Congrats. Any idea when I'll be able to buy it? Like the other free-online-first books I've read, I've gotten enough value from it that I'd like to thank you by paying for it.
You can also donate here: https://www.gittip.com/munificent/
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#55Good choice of font. I can't stand reading long online material with sans-serif.
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#56I've really enjoyed reading your book since I last came across it on HN! Thanks for writing this! I'd be glad to donate a bit, if you add a donation option.
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#57I had to force myself to close the window to get back to work. Great job on the content. I was pleased to see a reference to entity-component systems on the component page, too.
I'm not a game programmer, but the movement around ECS is very interesting to me.
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#58Bob, if you're lurking this thread: Congrats. Any idea when I'll be able to buy it? Like the other free-online-first books I've read, I've gotten enough value from it that I'd like to thank you by paying for it.
I'd like to buy it in physical form, if that is in the works. I've had a hard time using mobile versions of non-trivial texts and tend to bookmark without ever revisiting.
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#59Why doesn't the section on double buffering mention triple buffering? Double buffering is useful but it has a very important limitation: if the consumer is slower than the producer then the producer can stall while the consumer is still working, and then the consumer gets stale data for its next iteration. The extra memory cost of triple buffering is always worth it for gaming, because none of the ephemeral state data is all that large, and latency matters.
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#60Cool!Start reading now.