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by 5hoom 15y ago
Cuteness aside, the out of the box experience with a mac is really good. Everything is polished and there are no nag screens when you first boot up. The first experience with a new Apple device seems carefully engineered to make the owner f
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by 5hoom 15y ago
I really hated the politics and rhetoric of 24, but was somehow compelled beyond my will to watch every single episode. I knew it was unhealthy as I'd stay up way too late and ended up getting weird & anxious (head full of of right-wing
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Spot on. There was barely an indie developer scene for mobile before the iphone.
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by 5hoom 15y ago
I really do hope they decide to go with WebGL. Keeping a fragmented ecosystem with a 'WebDirectX' or some other proprietary new tech will just slow overall progress in this area. For web developers doing 3D it means "This site requires IE/T
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Agreed. There are always going to be classes of applications that need every bit of performance they can squeeze out of their host platform, and will be written native to that platform. Web apps are very useful things, but this "native code
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Perhaps that is a fair point, but can you imagine the fallout if something like this ever slipped through and was downloaded by an actual user? It is easy to see why they don't take kindly to this sort of thing.
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by 5hoom 15y ago
The lesson I would take away from this is that Apple should provide a mechanism for security vulnerabilities to be reported officially so that researchers don't have to engage in these sort of dubious activities. Whether they listen to the
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by 5hoom 15y ago
And security research does not trump the developer agreement. The guy submitted a real live exploit to the Joe-User facing App Store. What on earth did he expect would happen?
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by 5hoom 15y ago
If "IE6 Lameness" was indeed discussed prior to starting work, well that's just bad planning on the clients part. You just want to be sure IE6 support wasn't implied in the contract...
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by 5hoom 15y ago
It's their site & all, but criticisms like "ugly, tasteless, boring, & unoriginal" could just as easily be levelled at about the same ratio of films as games.
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Totally agree, both men are worthy of great respect. Regarding Richard Stallman you can take or leave his personality, but he does take a very long view of the software ecosystem and he has made more than a few prophetic observations ("The
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by 5hoom 15y ago
I'm an iOS developer & a fan of the app store system (from the small indie developers point of view), but there is no way I can kid myself that iOS is an open platform. Javascript & HTML are very nice inclusions, but really unless y
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Minecraft-ish WebGL Demo(alteredqualia.com)
4 points by 5hoom 15y ago|1 comments
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by 5hoom 15y ago
This matches my own experience with productive nocturnal coding marathons. There's something very tranquil and calm about knowing the outside world is asleep. The dark has the effect of making it hard to see anything that isn't immediately
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by 5hoom 15y ago
I stand corrected and humbly defer to your knowledge of horrible browsers ;)
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by 5hoom 15y ago
You forgot this bit in the technical requirements: -PC or MAC with internet connection -Web Browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 is recommended) So... they mean a (pretty old) PC with internet connection then?
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by 5hoom 15y ago
I zoomed right in and found it has something to do with three spirals and pixelated text surrounded by jpeg artifacts...
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Absolutely agree. In my 20's I was completely certain that I would be successful without hard work as I was smart & talented. After a decade of that imagined success not materialising I am far hungrier, more determined and working harde
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Procedural content like this adds a nice random, exploratory feel to a game. It's also really interesting in that it allows the programmer to leverage their skills in the creation of game art (still needs some artistry in the tweaking thoug
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WebGL X-Wing(oos.moxiecode.com)
100 points by 5hoom 15y ago|54 comments
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Really, it's as if paying off your friendly neighbourhood patent troll will become just another ugly cost of doing business. Maybe they should set up an online patent-protection store where developers can setup an account to ease the fricti
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Google News launches redesign in UK and India(googlenewsblog.blogspot.com)
1 points by 5hoom 15y ago|0 comments
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by 5hoom 15y ago
With the changes occurring at Google right now, could we be feeling the impact of Page taking this advice to heart? It seems Google are pruning a lot of stuff they must see as external to their core business, and putting happy-safe bubble w
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by 5hoom 15y ago
When I saw the headline I really hoped it would be about Dwarf-Fortress or NetHack & not some metaphorical "Greatest Game". Not only is it all about NetHack, it's one of the loveliest bits of web design I've seen. Bravo!
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by 5hoom 15y ago
"the longer the onions have been in the recipe, the longer the recipe has evolved in the presence of onions." That is just an excellent explanation of why removing stuff from a working system can be so dangerous. Thank you.
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by 5hoom 15y ago
While the adage "physical access == game over" is definitely true, it's a bit less useful now as more & more devices are portable. Previously, physical access meant someone broke in or fraudulently gained entry to a room where your pc/s
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Cutting and engaging, nicely done :)
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Laugh-out-loud coffee sprayed on my monitor. Thanks for that :)
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Yeah. This is really impressive and something with this mechanic would make a great kids game if there was any conceivable way that you could avoid little johnny being scared for life via the "TTP" effect…
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by 5hoom 15y ago
“IF YOU HAVEN’T PUT OUT A MAJOR FEATURE (no, not MINOR) IN 6 MONTHS, YOU NEVER WILL. You are coding a mudball and MUDBALLS HAVE NO FEATURES” Outstanding :)

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