32bitkid

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by 32bitkid 11y ago
Anecdotally, I recently went back and did some QuickBasic 4.5 programming, and was surprised how decent the experience actually was. I was on a retro kick, and was working backward/up to to doing some IBM PCjr hardware cartridge progra
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Micro-Talespin: A Story Generator in Common Lisp (1992)(eliterature.org)
44 points by 32bitkid 11y ago|15 comments
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by 32bitkid 11y ago
I don't mean to be a fuddy-duddy, but I don't get it... How is this better/worse than doing... git config user.name Foobar git config user.email foo@bar.com ...which will set that config variable for the
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by 32bitkid 12y ago
I wonder how much of the "Fear to 10x" mentality comes from the illusion that software development is not a team sport; that if I go off in my hole, work hard enough, think enough then I can achieve anything. I think the suppositi
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Mode X(en.wikipedia.org)
87 points by 32bitkid 12y ago|17 comments
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by 32bitkid 12y ago
I know this article is referring to a different kind of gaming, but back in the day, I used to give potential candidates a NES controller and Tetris when they were in the waiting room before the interview... You can tell a lot about how a p
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by 32bitkid 12y ago
I had the same first reaction; being an intense introvert. To that part of me – the part that has dealt with depression my whole life – it sounded just like the advice I think all people who deal with clinical depression get: "Just be
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by 32bitkid 12y ago
I pair a lot and, most of the time, I use ScreenHero. I think is a great tool, and before yesterday would have recommended it without hesitation. I have mixed feelings about the recent Slack acquisition, but I'd rather see a tool like
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by 32bitkid 12y ago
I've been working remotely exclusively for about the past 9 months (before that I have been doing it off and on for about a year and a half), and I think the piece that really strikes a chord with me in this article is the "Commun
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Exo Prosthetic Leg(behance.net)
1 points by 32bitkid 12y ago|0 comments
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by 32bitkid 12y ago
One has to admit that it complicates even trivial communications about days and times. Even questions like "What's the date of friday next week?" can't be quickly answered. Or "Is Nov 12th on the weekend?" I fe
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by 32bitkid 12y ago
I have a hard time getting on the "sleep is a weakness" bandwagon. I adore sleep, a love dreaming and have done some of my best "real" understanding while in dream-states. If anything, I wish I could sleep more.
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by 32bitkid 12y ago
A "programmer", like a "painter" or a "carpenter", describes the medium of the work, not the quality of it. I think a lot of people confuse the two.
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by 32bitkid 12y ago
I, too, got a acer c720 as an experiment, and it also has earned it's way into being my primary machine. Not only for casual browsing, but development too. I use ChomeOS in developer mode and chromebrew ( http://skycocker.git
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by 32bitkid 12y ago
I had the same realization a while ago, even started working on a documentation engine built around the idea that I never quite finished: https://github.com/32bitkid/zang The general concept was a markdown preprocessor
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Adventure Game Studio(github.com)
1 points by 32bitkid 12y ago|0 comments
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by 32bitkid 12y ago
Since practically the beginning of human history, mankind has fantasized about instantanious long-distance communication -- telepathy, mind-stones, oracles. And now that we are on the precipice of realizing that fantasy for all -- young and
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XBox live goes down on Titanfall launch day(support.xbox.com)
1 points by 32bitkid 13y ago|0 comments
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Crawl | Powerhoof(powerhoof.com)
5 points by 32bitkid 13y ago|1 comments
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by 32bitkid 13y ago
To play devils advocate for a bit: Perhaps it was a "basic" question, but it's also pretty terse. More importantly, you have not given me any reason why I should want to help you. You don't provide any information abou
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by 32bitkid 13y ago
Many church clocks used to chime every 15 minutes and could be heard throughout the town. I think the idea is to replicate a similar experience.
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Nuclear Detonation Timeline "1945-1996" in JavaScript(codepen.io)
2 points by 32bitkid 13y ago|0 comments
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by 32bitkid 13y ago
serious question: does nuclear radiation scale linearly with explosive yield? That question aside, the destructive power of a explosive does not scale linearly with yield [1] > This relation arises from the fact that the destructive powe
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by 32bitkid 13y ago
For my use case, I love my chromebook. I started with the samsung arm chromebook and have since moved to the Asus 720, and it has become my go-to around-town/coffeshop/travel laptop. A) it's light -- other devices are lighter
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by 32bitkid 13y ago
A thing that also really helped me I found in a footnote of Functional Javascript. There the idea of a "free variable" is presented not as free as in freedom, or even free as in beer. But free as in escaped. The variable hitch
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by 32bitkid 13y ago
I'm not an expert in either cloud-computing or 3d rendering, so I'm not saying that I've got it all figured out; "easy-peasy". But I do think there are some ways to transform the problem that could be more beneficia
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by 32bitkid 13y ago
I agree, and I'm surprised that anyone would have ever had any doubts that the industry -- or craft -- would move in this direction. And in fact, why have a render button at all. Why not just batch changes to the scene and send them of
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by 32bitkid 13y ago
Super cool! Confederate Express[1] is using a similar workflow, with great results. It's a really cool idea, and I'm surprised that it hasn't been used in more games up to this point. Seeing projects like this -- and spriter[
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by 32bitkid 13y ago
A few months ago, I purchased a Samsung Chromebook as an impulse buy, at $200 it was well within tolerable walking around money. And while not the greatest machine, it definitely earned its place on my coffee table as my go-to couch surfing
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The WebSockets is supported by default on all Nitrous boxes.(help.nitrous.io)
1 points by 32bitkid 13y ago|0 comments

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