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by 5hoom 15y ago
Yeah, from my own experience the 'manager' metaphor is just easier for understanding the flow of execution & adding-new-features/maintenance. Everything is in one place, and when the systems do need to communicate it is usually in prett
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Meh. I'm working on a video game at the moment, and have read lots of advice like this. My old game engine experiments all used 'Entities' to describe objects in the game world, and these 'Entities' were created, deleted and invoked by an '
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Same as you, no skin in this game. It Feels like I awoke up today & HN is having a Facebook special. I thought it was fairly well established that FB is a privacy quagmire (logged in or otherwise), so this all seems a bit redundant. May
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by 5hoom 15y ago
OK so this was done with vector graphics <forehead slap>. I was thinking they were doing some sort of bitmap-grid skewing & stretching, but it seemed way too precise & neat. Thank you for stating the (what probably should ha
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Cool. I checked the source, but wasn't sure what I was looking at. Thanks for confirming(ish) my guess! This really makes me want to dive into some of this new web hotness :)
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by 5hoom 15y ago
This is really impressive. Does anyone here know what was used to produce this? I'm guessing HTML5 canvas trickery, but I'm not a web-dev so I'm really curious if that's the case. However it was made, this is one of the best web-demos I've
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by 5hoom 15y ago
That's an interesting point, and one that I could easily imagine happening. I suppose the only problem for the movie producer is who holds copyright on a persons face? Imagine George Lucas & co. wants to make 'Indianna Jones 5 - the pre
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Exactly. In the 90's I remember using Lycos, Altavista, HotBot, AskJeeves and others which have faded from my memory. Then along came this new 'google' search engine & I never went back to the others. I still have a note scribbled on an
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Ahh, the second controversial Richard on HN today ;) Love him or hate him, Richard Stallman is nothing if not consistent. The fact is that he is right on this issue. At this time Honeycomb is not open source software. I'm a big fan of googl
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by 5hoom 15y ago
I hear you, felt a bit dirty myself on HN for the first time today. Earlier today I posted what was obviously a controversial comment on a previous story, got lots of down-votes, fine. The bit I find strange is that other comments on unrela
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by 5hoom 15y ago
This is a very interesting observation. I know a few registered nurses who had to study the placebo effect to earn their degree and I recall that placebos are only effective if the patient has a belief that the treatment would work (and the
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by 5hoom 15y ago
You have a fair point, name calling isn't particularly endearing in intelligent conversation. I suppose the strong language is a response to my feeling that Dawkins did abuse his position in that incident. I also feel that he is an unneces
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Why don't you ask Rebecca Watson (co-host of The Skeptics Guide To The Universe) what she thinks of him? There was an incident at a recent skeptics conference where Watson was accosted & hit on by an attendee in the small hours of the m
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by 5hoom 15y ago
This is pretty much my take on Richard Dawkins. I remember when "The God Delusion" was a hot topic hearing groups of otherwise intelligent people hi-fiving each other over how smart they were because they were atheists, & how COMPLETELY
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Or time to step out & start a competing business ;)
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Maybe I've spent too much time being brainwashed by FOSS advocates, but #6 (Software’s primary function is to earn profit) made my stomach lurch. I agree, profit is the _company's_ primary function. There are profitable companies out there
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Ahh, refactoring vs rewriting. All fairly sensible stuff, but while the spirit of the author saying: "If you can’t implement new features in a clean way I claim: You aren’t really able to implement the whole application in a clean way from
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by 5hoom 15y ago
I'm sure this same story came up a while ago, but whatever. Here's my take on the type of swearing in commits as per the story (XXXX represents swearword of your choice). C++: "Finally fixed it. My XXXX head hurts" Javascript/Ruby: "Finishe
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Out of all the issues you have listed here, the one that rings true for me is the dis-inclusion of search terms. It can be really annoying to perform a search including a technical keyword and get page upon page of irrelevancy, only to disc
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by 5hoom 15y ago
I'm just plain curious & trying to get my head around it (I've played around with procedural noise textures & the like). Does the navier-stokes function (or functions like it) operate on a repeating (wrapped around) grid or is there
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by 5hoom 15y ago
This is a really gorgeous simulation. the Navier-Stokes equations are a bit over my head but the results sure do look nice. Interesting how the fluid simulation wraps around the texture. If anyone out there is knowledgeable in these things,
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Nothing is outside the jurisdiction of nanobot assassins, duh.
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Gabriel Weinberg is amazing at blogging! He revolutionised the anti-extreme excitement movement! Seriously though, it is a good idea not to get swept up in the waves of hysterical enthusiasm that can follow some personalities and companies.
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Zen Proverb: Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. Perhaps the commenter was an enlightened soul trying to ensure that readers didn't get too lofty & carried away ;)
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by 5hoom 15y ago
I know it's just an off-hand little dig at C++, & I'm sure you know more than enough about C++ to be confident making such a dig, but damn the relentless C++ bashing gets really old to those of us who are happily productive with it. Jus
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by 5hoom 15y ago
I think you make an excellent point. Tools that are "internally cohesive" reward the effort put into learning them. Knowledge gained learning one function of an internally cohesive tool can often be applied to others, opening up new functio
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by 5hoom 15y ago
C'mon, really? You're saying that Apple was technologically incapable of building a multitasking OS. I don't know where to begin constructing an argument to refute this. How about, um, I don't know, the existence of OSX?
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Richard Stallman Pixel Art(peileppe.deviantart.com)
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Yep. Sounds interesting but seems like it's meta-comments only at this stage. If anyone happens to load this elusive "View Source Spoof" page, please leave a nice detailed description for the rest of us. Our minds can draw the pictures :)
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by 5hoom 15y ago
Interesting to note the difference between C and C++ with regards to the '*' and '&' keys. I know there is a lot of raw pointer and address usage in C, but I'm surprised at how little these keys show up in C++. It's good to see that peo

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